Opening hours @7th LANE are Thursday-Sunday 12-5, or by appointment.

Last chance is July 25th.

Adress: PUG#1 – 7th LANE – Lilleakerveien 4B, Oslo.

We congratulate our 7 amazing artists!

Our opening hours are Thursday – Sunday 12-5 pm or by appointment.

Last chance is 25th of July, the building will be demolished on the 26th.

Join us for a guided tour through the mysteries of 7th LANE with our curator Arnt Fredheim, Monday July 12th at 7 pm.

Address:

7th LANE – PUG#1 – Lilleakerveien 4B, Oslo.

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This summer Steinar Christensen has been up north to attend to his contribution to Artscape Nordland, the installation “Stella MARIS”.

The project originated in a comprehensive debate about the role of art in society. The County of Nordland, with its 240.000 inhabitants, does not have an art museum – and people must travel long distances to study modern art in museums and galleries. The idea of a collection of modern art in Nordland, one sculpture in every municipality and with the landscape as gallery, was first presented in 1988. The underying idea of the project is that a work of art creates a place of its own through its very presence in the landscape. The sculpture also visualises its surroundings, thus giving the place a new dimension. The dialogue resulting from the encounter between the sculpture and spectator reveals different ways of understanding and interpreting art.

The project officially started in 1992, and was completed in 1998. Sculptures, located in beautiful, varied and often brutal landscapes on the coast of the Atlantic, will be found in 33 of the 45 municipalities in the county. An art gallery without walls or a ceiling – and covering an area of 40.000 km. (Source: www.skulpturlandskap.no)

If you are in Oslo, please visit us, our opening hours are Thursday-Sunday from 12-5 or by appointment. Also – please let us know if you would like to see the beautiful 7th LANE catalogue – we are happy to send it to you!

Last chance to visit the exhibition is  the 25th of July. Enjoy…

]]> http://www.ellen-k.no/2010/06/30/the-7th-lane-exhibit/feed/ 0 http://www.ellen-k.no/2010/06/04/7th-lane-exhibition-opened-artist-talks-in-june/ http://www.ellen-k.no/2010/06/04/7th-lane-exhibition-opened-artist-talks-in-june/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:57:12 +0000 admin1 http://www.ellen-k.no/?p=1050 The exhibition 7th LANE – Photography from Heaven and Hell opened on June 2nd -  with 1.000 m2 filled with work created by 7 amazing artists showing photography, sculpture and video. Over 300 people attended the opening reception. We welcome you all to the following events in June;

7th LANE – Artisttalk – Steinar Christensen vs curator Arnt N Fredheim. Steinar Christensen’s unique artistic practice operates in future, present and past, with references to both the Dutch Golden Age paintings and a futuristic industrial age. His artist talk will be on his thoughts about art and the driving forces to create, but also about the ways his work can be interpreted. Saturday June 5th at 1 PM.

7th LANE – Artisttalk – Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. In Houge’s most recent body of work OKURIMONO, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar. Sunday June 6th at 1 PM.

7th LANE – Your portrait made by the French photographer William Ropp.
William Ropp is known for the unique style in which he captures the mysterious aspects of human nature. Placing his subjects in absolute darkness during extended exposures, he uses a flashlight to paint a magical effect of illumination and shadow in what he calls ‘The dance of light’. Saturday 12th and Sunday 13 of June, from 11-3 PM. For booking, please send us an email at post@ellen-k.no.

7th LANE – Artist talk – William Ropp – Sunday 13th of June at 7PM

7th LANE – Booksigning – Joyce Tenneson. Internationally lauded as one of the leading photographers of her generation, Joyce Tenneson’s work has been published in books and major magazines worldwide. Her images have been displayed in exhibitions worldwide and are part of numerous private and museum collections. Her portraits appear frequently on covers for magazines such as: Time, Life, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. June 16th at 7PM.

7TH LANE -Robert Sannes gives an artist talk about his series Resurrection on show in the gallery. Robert Sannes is an architect by education but over the recent years he has chosen photography and lecturing to be his profession. His strengths lie within his visual senses, which in his opinion, is an important ability in order to develop insight beyond knowledge. JUNE 20th AT 1PM

Our opening hours are from 12-5 PM thursday-sunday till 25nd of July.

Adress: Lilleakerveien 4B, Oslo.

Enjoy…

Click here for a sneakpeak…

Opening reception June 2nd at 7 pm.

Steinar Christensen

Lisa Holden

Christian Houge

William Ropp

Robert Sannes

Joyce Tenneson

Vernissage on June 2 at 7:00 PM, Lilleakerveien 4B, Oslo. Most artists will be present at the opening or during the exhibition.

Find your INVITATION to the exhibition 7th LANE here.

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We are amazed by his artistic achievements over the past 40 years, and feel confident that Mr Christensen will continue to contribute to the international art-scene in many years to come.  Christensen has  worked within a variety of media and with different materials, often in collaboration with experts in specific disciplines. His last major art project was unveiled at Refsnes Gods in Norway in June 2009. The Refsnes Frieze was inspired by industrial aesthetics and extensive industrial history in Moss, and it is thorougly documented in the book  `Steinar Christensens Refsnes-frise` by Arnt Fredheim.

FROM THE 5 CORNERS OF THE WORLD

- On Steinar Christensen’s appropriation of Jan van Kessel’s Four Continents from 1666.

Text by Arnt Fredheim

In a world of changes, where words like ‘storms’ and ‘floods’ are seen in daily use and the magnetic north pole is fixed somewhere over Canada and moving full ahead against Sibiria, a modern version of the Four Continents by Jan van Kessel may no longer dwell on the fixed vision of the four continents. Turbans are to be swapped by fire extinguishers. The lingering brown hued Arcadian landscapes are to be filled with snow. Anonymous moths must take the place formerly occupied by Oriental butterflies.

Chilly Nordic landscapes must be given the ambiguous apparition of snow-scapes from a postcard-world, with anonymous Arran Browns and reminiscences of low-voiced vegetation counteracting its icy magnificence. Van Kessels basic context and his excuse to commit his brushes to the painting of natural history collections, namely the possibility to revere in powerful symbols and an triple-eyed iconography, is scraped to the skin, yes maybe even to the bone. And so we are left with empty industrial halls filled with silent white light, a solitary spade or a row of windows watching us with all their knowledge. We are left with concrete walls bereaved of its former make-up and an understanding that the times people inhabited these premises are long past.

The particular structure created by van Kessel by filling a center panel with a voluptuous and life-enjoying vivacity, and by framing this center panel with 16 smaller sister panels communicating with its larger brother in the middle, easily finds a place in our world of digital pull down-menus. In the same manner our world has become globalized – our sense of directions has changed from south to north rather than west to east, so the continents or what we commonly call the four corners of the world, is anonymized in Christensen’s pictures. We are left with what the Chinese would call ‘mo jüan’, ink traces, a word they used to describe both painting and calligraphy. And in the same manner Chinese calligraphers put their pride in performing true art with their writing, but at the same took the care to hide the hard labour and the deep understanding behind every trace of ink on the silk paper, Christensen’s world of pictures seem a little haphazard, muscularly un-precise and yet deadly to the point.

The pictures are pure concept art, based on long studies, thorough planning and a synthesis of many years of thinking around aesthetic questions. When the whole composition is ready in the mind of the artist, he calls his photographer, Gunnar Mjaugedal, who under thorough – but silent – instruction helps him to visualize his projects.

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While planning the opening of a gallery specializing in fine art photography in Oslo in 2010, the artists we are so fortunate to represent are in demand all over the world. Christian Houge recently received information from his gallery in San Fransisco, the Hosfelt Gallery, that one of the motifs from the ‘Arctic Technology’ series is acquired by the Nevada Art Museum. The piece will be part of the museums permanent collection. The museum has an interesting approach focusing on “art organized around the general themes of land and environment. This thematic, rather than historical or stylistic focus on the environment mirrors the community’s growing interest in the protection of the land. Furthermore, the focus provides scope and direction for future acquisitions and exhibitions.”

It is also worth mentioning that Houge was nominated for the Prix Pictet in Paris in 2009. Sponsored by the Geneva private bank Pictet & Cie, the Prix Pictet is the world’s first prize dedicated to photography and sustainability. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate crucial messages to a global audience; and it has a unique goal – art of the highest order, applied to the immense social and environmental threats of the new millennium. Houge is participating in a group exhibition at Galleri A in Oslo to the 10th of January, and is also invited as one of the main exhibitors at the traveling group exhibition put together by the Akershus Art Centre, opening on January 16th.

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Lisa Holden is participating in a group exhibition “Winter in Amsterdam“ together with Igor Kruter, Arthur Tress, Dirk de Herder, Paul Huf and others at the Eduard Planting fine art photographs, to January the 30th

Lisa  is taking part in the ‘Real is me’ art fair in Amsterdam with the same Eduard Planting Fine Art Photographs, from 14 – 17 January 2010, Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, Piet Heinkade 27, 1019 BR Amsterdam. Look for boot no 26.

She will also be in a 2-person show with Jefferson Heyman, from 13 February until 27 March also at Eduard Planting Fine Art Photographs, Eerste Bloemdwarsstraat 2 links, 1016 KS Amsterdam.

Lisa will also be represented  at the 19th annual Photo LA, Los Angeles, US, from January 14-17 at Santa Monica Civic Center. Her US Gallerist, Alex Novac from Contemporary/Vintage Works has chosen her as the only contemporary artist for their show, which is quite an honour… The hosts are David LaChapelle and the actor Chris Lowell.

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We are looking forward to seeing William Ropp in Oslo again, he will be lecturing at the BILDER Nordic School of Photography in mid January. William enjoys lecturing – and is inspired by the energy and the enthusiasm he receives from all the talented students he meets. The Swedish magazine FOTO no 1, 2010, features a 10 pages article on William Ropp, his workshops and his artistic career. He will be holding workshops at the BILDER Nordic in Stockholm in March, and at the same school in Oslo in April. Enjoy an interview with the artist in disguise from the opening of his retrospective in Nancy, France HERE.

William is currently exhibiting his ‘Children’ series in Mexico – at the Centro Cultural in Guanajuato, Mexico. His upcoming book,  ’Dreamt memories from Africa’ is on its way to the printers, and will be launched in April.

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If you are interested in photography and shared territories,  why not consider a workshop in Bali with Robert Sannes in March. This workshop includes both photography and yoga, and focuses on developing your creativity and intuition. Sannes has been lecturing at the BILDER Nordic School of Photography for some years now, with remarkable feedback from enthusiastic and loyal students. Sannes also offers one-day inspirational classes for groups and corporate companies. Contact us for more information.

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Finally; Gullsnitt is maybe Norway’s most important competition in photography. The juryes are announced at www.gullsnitt.com, and we are looking forward to announcement of the winners at DogA in Oslo on the 19th of February 2010.

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