Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Meet Me Around the Corner-
works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection
14.06 - 31.08. 2008
Matthew Barney, Frank Benson, Mike Bouchet, Lizzi Bougatsos, Paul Chan, Dan Colen, Trisha Donnelly, Gardar Eide Elnaruon, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hannah Greely, Taft Green, Karl Haendel, Corin Hewitt, Damien Hirst., Christian Holstad, Matt Johnson, Mike Kelley, Terence Koh, Jeff Koons, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Kiara Liden, Nate Lowman, Jason Meadows, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Seth Price, Richard Prince, Adam Putnam, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Cristlna Lei Rodriguez, Matthew Ronay, Tom Sachs, Cindy Sherman, Josh Smith Christopher Wool.
This exhibition presents the diversity and high quality of the Astrup Fearnley Collectlon, which has developed Into one of Scandinavia's finest collections of lntematlonal contemporary art. In this exhibition we present new acquisitions by younger artists, mainly Americans, who have entered the International art scene since 2000. You can also experience works by Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman and others who establlshed their artistic practice In the 1980s and '90s.
The exhibition features artists like Lizzi Bougatsos, Corin Hewitt, Terence Koh and Klara Lidén, who express themselves through diverse media such as sculpture, drawing, video, painting and photography. These artists often take their point of departure In existing vlsual material, yet in addition to appropriating pictures from mass media and consumer society, they personally transform their materials and means. Through collages, assemblages and altered readymades, the artists create stories, The impulse behind a work may be something surreal and surprising, like the works of Matthew Renay or mysterious and immaterial, as we see in Trisha Donnelly's works. In addition, we find works of artists like Gardar Eide Elnarsson and Karl Haendel, expressing strong political engagement. The artists work with impressions from contemporary culture such as cartoon series and graffiti, yet when doing so, also engage with art historical traditions such as Surreallsm, Abstract Expressionism, Neorealism, Pop Art or 1960s Performance Art.
The artworks do not represent any particular generation, but can be seen as narrative, object based
and figurative.
Curators: Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hanne Beate Ueland, Grete Arbu.