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[VIDEO] Sverre Bjertnes at White Columns, New York

by Vernissage TV
Sverre Bjertnes at White Columns March 10th - April 20th
Posted 3/17/13

White Columns in New York just opened the first solo exhibition in the United States by the New York-based Norwegian artist Sverre Bjertnes. The show is titled If you really loved me you would be able to admit that you’re ashamed of me, and has been developed by Sverre Bjertnes in collaboration with the artist Bjarne Melgaard. The exhibition presents new paintings and works on paper by Bjertnes, as well as earlier works. Furthermore, the show includes collaborative works made with both Melgaard and the artist’s mother Randi Koren... [more]

Super Normal

by ArtSlant Team
Bjarne Melgaard at de Appel Arts Centre June 18th, 2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Posted 6/15/10

This summer, de Appel presents a Solo Project by the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard (1967), a show with its artistic starting point located in the mental world of Rod Bianco. Melgaard is one of the most chameleonic figures in contemporary art. His work evolves and mutates at breakneck speed owing to his continual introduction of new themes, ideas and semi-imaginary characters such as Bernard St. Summiere, Mr. Black Pearl, Rummelsnuff, Joey Stefano, Frost and Les Super. Bianco is the... [more]

All of This is Melting Away

by Jenia Gorton
Chiho Aoshima, Olaf Breuning, Beth Campbel, Roberto Cuoghi, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Wynne Greenwood, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Jim Hodges, Hideaki Kawashima, Makiko Kudo, Melora Kuhn, Mahomi Kunikata, Yayoi Kusama, Tony Matelli, Adam McEwen, Bjarne Melgaard, Mariko Mori, Dave Muller, Ivan Navarro, Mitsuhiro Okamoto, Nick Rodrigues, Rei Sato, Jennifer Steinkamp, Aya Takano, Yuken Teruya, Gary Webb, Fischli & Weiss, Fred Wilson at Royal T August 14th, 2008 - February 20th, 2009
Posted 8/31/08

The group show, “All of This is Melting Away,” at Royal-T art space presents the work of 33 diverse artists in an imaginative, enlivening, and vibrant array of painting, mixed media, sculpture, pottery, and light and sound installation. Each of the 43 works somehow indicate a quality of fluctuation and variability, as implied by the show’s title, and suggest the motif of melting by combining mediums, blurring subjects, and experimenting with space. The show as a whole destabilizes... [more]

Jekyll Island

by Ed Shad
Lizzi Bougatsos Glenn Brown, Steve DiBenedetto, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Jóhannes Atli Hinriksson, Justin Lieberman, Bjarne Melgaard, Jin Meyerson, Shintaro Miyake, Gen Quinn, Peter Saul, Fredrik Söderberg, Phoebe Unwin, Joep van Liefland, Jannis Varelas at Honor Fraser July 12th, 2008 - August 28th, 2008
Posted 7/20/08

Unlike No Room, the group show Jekyll Island does not offer the notion that even a part of the contemporary psyche seeks unity or wholeness. Instead, distopia and fracture reign absolutely and there seems to be no point in resisting. Its curators posit “underlying pathos of a psychopathic irrational society” as their purpose – they want to find emotion in a messed up world prone to upheaval, primal chaos, and schizophrenia. One would think that it would be fairly easy to find em... [more]