Still Life with hyena, lotus and cave
After a four months studio residency at kunstnernes hus in Oslo toghether with german artist Lutz-Rainer Müller it gives me great pleasure to announce the opening of our showcase "Still Life with hyena, lotus and cave". The show will open on April 29th at 19, so if you are in Oslo please join us there.
Opening thursday 29. April at 19-21
Open 30.April – 2. May 2010 from 12 - 15
W17 Program / Kunstnernes Hus - Oslo
Press release:
Stian Ådlandsvik (N) & Lutz-Rainer Müller (G) are two artists with individual practices that during the past years have collaborated on certain occasions where they set out to find or create problems they thereafter react upon. At Kunstnernes Hus their task is to process the idea of collaboration itself and its evolving nature in communication.
Their seemingly paradoxical plan to come to terms with this involves passing on most of the artistic decisions in favor of an exhibition based on a fortune tellers visions and medical technology. CT-Scans of Müllers left arm and Ådlansviks right were made in the cellar of a medical clinic in Dresden. The data from these scans has been used to make exact duplicates of the bones in their arms printed in Polyamide by rapid prototyping equipment. These bone-duplicates have then been carefully spread out in their studio and examined by a shaman. Envisioned in the previously unseen depths of the artist’s arms, she told them what their exhibition would look like. The final show is thus realized in compliance with her visions.
