Echo
I am happy to announce my exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. The exhibition opens on Thursday June 16th 2011 at 19:00.
Rose Eken, Alicia Frankovich, Reiko Kanazawa and Evelina Deicmane will also open their exhibitions this evening.
Press release, Künstlerhaus Bethanien:
In his works Stian Ådlandsvik deconstructs the familiar and so creates a space for new contexts and perspectives. The artist conceives a sensitive interplay between self-reflection and the processual on the basis of sculptures, photographs, drawings and objects. He designs copies of copies, making reconstructions and experimental set-ups.
The new works developed for the exhibition ”Echo” function as individual objects but can also be understood as a series of complementary works. Objects have been shifted and reworked internally by the use of a jigsaw. This jigsaw has later been dismantled, spread out in the installation and given a new function. Rather contradictory, the jigsaw works as the linking element of the whole exhibition despite its dividing function.
In order to unite two showcases into one, the two showcases have been sawed up into smaller pieces. As a deviation from the plan these pieces have been made into different sculptures and documented before they were put back together to the initial idea of having one showcase. The traces on the outside of the showcase are removed and covered up, but the inside of it still reveals these traces - a drawing of these sculptures now only existing as photography.
Later the same jigsaw was used to cut out the necessary pieces to make a drawer in a plinth from the lower part of plinth itself. The jigsaw was thereafter dismantled and the remains of the jigsaw are presented in the drawer, while the motor provides the driving force behind another work: a spatial installation consisting of several airport barriers. The engine runs a band in loop around the different barriers, making them unusable as a way of organizing visitors. They now contain the movement they are supposed to arrange for others and seem to function solemnly as an obstacle.
These objects are indeed connected the optically, but they no longer present a unified picture; they are reorganized and appear empty and deprived of meaningful function. It seems as if shifts in demands have occurred, and that they suddenly can occur again. Traces of production and of the making of new functions are revealed, reflecting on the history of objects, how they are made and what they are made of.
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Address
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Kottbusser Straße 10
10999Berlin
Opening hours
17th June - 10th July 2011,
Tue - Sun, 2 - 7 pm
