1/6/2007
Damien Hirst
Kabuso, Oystese
Life, death and love
Life, death and love
curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hanne Beate Ueland and Grete Arbu
In collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Kabuso arts
centre presents a broad exhibition of work by Damien Hirst. In line with Damien
Hirst's ambitious art, this exhibition has a title that comprises truly large
themes: life, death and love. Hirst himself has claimed that there are four
important consorts in his life: art, love, religion and science. His artistic
project is to seek connections -- contrasts and dilemmas -- between life and death,
love and desire, machines and human beings, art and popular culture, beauty and
gruesomeness, irony and seriousness, and religion and science. By staging
juxtapositions of these themes, he creates a highly contrasting and explosive art
that confronts the public in a way many find beyond the bounds of decency.
The works of Damien Hirst that form the basis of this exhibition, all of which are
from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, reflect his artistic developments. And
cumulatively, the installations, sculptures and paintings presented here offer an
important overview of the main formalistic and thematic thoughts of the artist
during the past decade.
About Kabuso arts centre
Kabuso is situated in the small village Oystese in Hardanger, Norway. The centre
lies just next door to the Ingebrigt Vik Museum, which contains the collection of
Ingebrigt Vik, one of the biggest Norwegian classical sculptors.
Kabuso also has a good chamber-music hall. Throughout the summer, we host classical
matinee concerts, in collaboration with Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen, as well as
other concerts.
International visitors will also appreciate the magnificent nature of the area. From
the arts centre you can view the Hardanger Fjord, snow capped mountains and
Folgefonna - the local glacier.
Kabuso
Hardangerfjordvegen 626 - Oystese
Opening hours: September-May: Tuesday-Sunday 11-15, June-August: Tuesday-Sunday 10-17
Admission: NOK 50,- Children free