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Ultimate Substance (2012) is a new video installation in which the artists interweave associative references to archaeology, philosophy, mathematics, and ritual, departing from the hypothesis that the introduction of coinage in the ancient Greek world effected a profound cognitive shift that was key to the emergence of Western philosophic, scientific and dramatic traditions. The video projection is comp...   [more]

Opening: January 24th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

From 30 March to 3 March 2013 at the Costume and Lace Museum. Between 1730 and 1789 corsets and breeches were very popular. The exhibition Panniers, stays and jabots, fashion in the 18th century leads the visitors to this fashion from the 18th century, which today is still inspiring. Dresses in French or English style hang beside evening dresses and breeches from the time of Madame de Pompadour and later Marie...   [more]

Opening: March 30th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This solo exhibition by Matias Faldbakken reflects the artist´s on-going interest in transforming an existing language of forms related to a particular period in modernism. For this specific project, Faldbakken has sourced iconic sculptures created in Norway in the 20th century to carry out a condoned vandalism. Faldbakken essentially de-skills modernist sculpture’s aspirations toward the aero...   [more]