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16/1/2009

Rotating Views #1

Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo

The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art houses an exceptional collection of international contemporary art. It is not a historical collection tracing a chronological development and it does not explore specific artistic movements or aspire to present an encyclopaedic overview of international art today. Rather, it can best be described as a carefully selected cluster of major works by leading international contemporary artists.

The Astrup Fearnley Collection is vast and expanding. For the next two years, its works will go on a temporary rotating display within the museum. The concept of rotation enables us to work with the collection as a whole but not at the same time. It presents a way to create constellations of works ‘on the move’, and facilitates surprising and unique assemblages of art across a large, diverse conceptual and thematic spectrum.

Rotating the works introduces the notion of a broken linearity, as works from several decades and different political and cultural contexts are shown together. It also allows for an atypical geographical order as ‘Western’ artists from Scandinavia, France, Germany, Britain and the United States share the space with ‘Eastern’ artists from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and India. Rotation, in this way, highlights the ‘alphabetical’, artist-based nature of the Astrup Fearnley Collection, emphasising individual artists rather than an abstract chronological or historical framework.

Rotation allows for a multitude of possibilities and as such mirrors the complex, open nature of pictorial language. Inviting endless ways of bringing together different kinds of art, it generates new readings and experiences of particular objects and creates ‘inter-work’ relationships, which may even reveal hidden and mysterious coalitions and affiliations.

Over the next two years, visitors are offered a chance to see works from the collection in a new light. This long-term engagement presents a potpourri of artists, stylistic genres and complex social, political and aesthetic themes. And in the process, it documents pioneering new dimensions in contemporary art.

Artists included in the exhibition are: Allora & Calzadilla, Matthew Barney, Frank Benson, Cao Fei, Paul Chan, Chu Yun, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Olafur Eliasson, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Shilpa Gupta, Guyton \Walker, Damien Hirst, Anselm Kiefer, Ann Lislegaard, Liu Wei, Bjarne Melgaard, Shintaro Miyake, Adam Putnam og Yang Fudong.


Program Rotating Views #1 – 17.01-22.03.08

Sunday 18 January from 2 pm:
Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor: Live music performance
Clamor (2006) examines music and sound as possible weapons, and the role of music in war and political conflicts throughout the world. 5 musicians play fragments from an extensive archive of military music from within the bunker.

Sunday 25 January from 2 pm:
Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor: Live music performance

Saturday 24 January from 12.30 pm:
The children’s art club Rasmus invites children aged 5-10 to experience art in the museum one Saturday each month. See separate programme. In Norwegian.

Thursday 5 February 6 pm:
Frank Benson: Artist Talk
The Astrup Fearnley Collection holds several works by American artist Frank Benson. Included in Rotations #1 is the new acquisition Chocolate Fountain #2 (2008).

Saturday 8 February from 2 pm:
Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor: Live music performance

Thursday 19 February 8 pm:
Ingrid Pettersen: ’Matthew Barneys Torii’
Ingrid Pettersen holds a Masters Degree on Barneys art and will discuss the work Torii with reference to his earlier production. Pettersen works as a museum host in the Astrup Fearnley Museum. In Norwegian.

Sunday 22 January from 2 pm:
Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor: Live music performance

Thursdag 26 February 6 pm:
Grete Årbu: ’Astrup Fearnley Collection’
Grete Årbu, curator at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, will give an insight to the exceptional collection administered by the museum. In Norwegian.

Saturday 28 February from 12.30 pm:
The children’s art club Rasmus invites children aged 5-10 to experience art in the museum one Saturday each month. See separate programme. In Norwegian.

Thursday 5 March 6 pm:
Allora & Calzadilla: Artist Talk
The American artists Allora & Calzadilla’s (live and work in Puerto Rico) are presented in Rotation Views #1 with the installation Clamor (2006). The artists were also included in Uncertain States of America with the film Under Discussion (2005).

Sunday 8 March from 2 pm:
Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor: Live music performance

Thursday 19 March 6 pm:
Susanne Ø. Sæther: ’Douglas Gordons noir-univers’
Susanne Ø. Sæther holds a PhD on sampling in video art where she amongst two other artworks analyzed Douglas Gordon’s through a looking glass. In Norwegian.

Sunday 22 March from 2 pm:
Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor: Live music performance

Saturday 21 February from 12.30 pm:
The children’s art club Rasmus invites children aged 5-10 to experience art in the museum one Saturday each month. See separate programme. In Norwegian.

Image: Rotasjoner #1
Astrup Fearnley Samlingen
Frank Benson, Chocolate Fountain #2, 2008

Communication officer Kari Ane Golf k.golf@fearnleys.no

Opening Saturday January 17th at 2 pm.

Astrup Fearnley Museum
Dronningens gate 4 - Oslo
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday: 11am-5pm
Thursday: 11am-7pm
Saturday-Sunday: 12pm-5pm
Monday: closed

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