Two exhibitions
dal 4/9/2003 al 26/10/2003
Segnalato da
4/9/2003
Two exhibitions
Galleri Wang, Oslo
The installation Hollow Ground, Heuch's first project at the gallery, will occupy the entire ground floor and can be described as the artist's attempt to give material form to a mental landscape.
Ground floor:
ANDREAS HEUCH
Andreas Heuch (b.1972) is the next artist to be exhibited at Galleri Wang. The installation Hollow Ground, Heuch's first project at the gallery, will occupy the entire ground floor and can be described as the artist's attempt to give material form to a mental landscape.
The audience is led around the gallery on elevated platforms, like pathways into an uncharted terrain.
By forcing the audience to balance over the floor the artist creates a condensed, unfamiliar atmosphere in the exhibition space. The audience is both part of the work and viewers at the same time as there is no alternative but to move along the paths and view the rest of the
installation from above.
Using these moves, Heuch transforms the gallery from a neutral exhibition space to a stylised gardenscape.
Murals grow out along the walls, floor and ceiling. The paintings, which form an integrated part of the installation, give the impression of magnified mesh-works of plant, animal or human veins. Heuch was once a botany student, and he finds inspiration in the illustrations, charts, diagrams and maps of natural science.
Andreas Heuch's works refer to man's cultivation of nature and of organic processes in the world of botany. He organises his works in a visualdialogue with the site, the light and the materiality surrounding his installations. Heuch's art may be described as artificial nature, or as a meeting place for nature, culture and mentality.
This autumn, other works by Andreas Heuch may be seen in exhibitions at Oslo Art Society (21.8  21.9.03) and Drammen Museum of Art and Cultural History (23.10  21.12.03). He will also have a temporary public decoration on display on the lawn outside Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, and he will comission Glomfjord Videregående Skole in Nordland county. Heuch will be participating in the exhibitions for the Carnegie Art Award 2004.
Project room:
BØRRE SÆTHRE
After the highly popular exhibition My Private Sky at the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo two years ago, we are very pleased to show a new project by Børre Sæthre.
In addition to the installation in the Project room, visitors may view new independent pieces that were shown for the first time at ArtBasel in June this year.
Børre Sæthre is also actual this autumn with exhibitions at Lydmar Hotel in Stockholm.
Opening on Friday the 5th of September, at 7 p.m.
Image: Andreas Heuch; Position Approximate, 2002 Installation; 2 display cases with objects, wall-/floorpainting 5x9 m
Galleri Wang
Kristian Augusts gate 11
N-0164 Oslo
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