NYAB Event - "Red, The North Stars Series: Contemporary Norwegian Art in NYC" Exhibition

"Red, The North Stars Series: Contemporary Norwegian Art in NYC" Exhibition

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.NO presents RED, the last chapter of THE NORTH STARS. A series of three month‐long group shows, each exhibit features contributions by 8 10 visual artists paired with one or more performance artist(s).  Alluding to the participants' shared geographic origin, the title of the series is a tongue in cheek‐reference to Polaris – Norwegian artists are, of course, the guiding lights of the art world! But implicit in it is also the very fallacy of the notion of one leading direction in the arts: with more than one steering star, who knows where true north lies? 
Structured around the tricolor of the Norwegian flag, the series explores the symbolism and psychological connotations inherent in the individual hues. Currently on view through March 30th, the second installment is dedicated to the color WHITE. Then, opening on April 1, the final round: RED, a selection of narratives on the eternal themes of love, passion, Eros, pain, violence, and lust for life, all conveyed through the vehicle of the body.
A good fit in this context is Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen, whose exquisite line drawings in story‐book style are quirky explorations of sexuality, gender and nature.  Internationally known for her larger‐than‐life wall drawings, she just won the competition for a grand‐scale public artwork at Gassco in Kopervik, Norway, and will also create a site‐specific piece for RED. Mining a similar vein, Marianne Darlén Solhaugstrand has received critical acclaim for her intricate watercolors, which the Swedish art critic Tommy Olsson views as "some of the most steamily sexy you may risk upon in the Norwegian contemporary art scene." Also addressing issues of identity and gender, Hanne Lydia Opøien Kristoffersen's large color‐ pencil renderings on black paper have a more aggressive, confrontational impact. Featured in RED is a selection of portraits from her Belonging series, now also on view in her ongoing solo show at the Graamolna Museum of Art in Trondheim, for which she won the annual artist's prize awarded by Håkon Bleken's foundation.  
With a true passion for ballet, Eli Skomsø shows quickly captured impressions of soaring dancers. Also working with bodies in motion, Sol Kjøk has been invited to show her large‐scale tangles of figures in an international exhibit that will travel to several museums in the Philippines this fall. Kurt Johannessen, whose peculiar and poetic performances were featured in Guangzhou, Bergen, Arnhem, Glasgow, and Belfast over the past three months, offers another batch of textual pieces, while Rune Olsen will present a new sculpture originating from what Artforum's critic Franklin Melendez sees as "his ongoing investigation of the murky drives and blind impulses …that shape and define the structures of the social."
Originally invited to participate in RED as a performance artist, multimedia practitioner Kjetil Skøien travels to Tallinn for a video project this month, and will instead contribute works in 2D. Also working in a wide range of disciplines, London‐ based Tone Gellein will premier a new performance piece at our special event scheduled for April 10th, as will Anne Marte Eidseth Rygh, founder and Editor‐in‐Chief of the art magazine performancekunst.no

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Sculpture

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