Research Catalog

Title

Torbjørn Rødland : the touch that made you / editors, Amira Gad and Joseph Constable.

Publication

London : Serpentine Galleries, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gad, Amira
• Constable, Joseph
• Rødland, Torbjørn, 1970-

Description

167 pages : illustrations (some colour); 21 cm

Summary

Torbjørn Rødland constructs portraits, still lifes and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit and defamiliarise the realm of the everyday. With a highly constructed and at times fetishistic approach to subjects, objects and materials, Rødland makes photographs that are formally acute, conceptually playful and psychologically evocative. Characterised by their double-edged allegories and underlying lyricism, Rødland's staged scenarios "keep you in the process of looking", simultaneously revealing layers of discomfort and pleasure. This accompnaying publication offers new and fresh lenses through which to view the artist's work. Walead Beshty's text, titled "Skin Flicks", focuses on Rodland's unique approach to surfaces, Julie Boukobza considers a number of works in the exhibition by building fictive narratives around them, whilst Diane Nguyen stages a surreal and winding narrative performance through Rødland's image repertoire. Bob Nickas' essay, "Fifteen Years Later" draws upon the experience of looking at Rødland's photographs and provides a visual map of their complex system of symbols, signs and gestures.

Alternative Title

Touch that made you

Subjects

• Rødland, Torbjørn, 1970-
• Exhibition catalogs
• Rødland, Torbjørn, 1970- > artist
• Rødland, Torbjørn, 1970- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Torbjørn Rødland: the touch that made you at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery (29 September - 19 November 2017)"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yana Peel -- Torbjørn Rødland : fifteen years later / Bob Nickas -- Supposed / Alice Notley -- The photographer / Diane Nguyen -- Ring on the index finger / Julie Boukobza -- Skin flicks / Walead Beshty -- Among California pepper trees / Stuart Krimko.

Call Number

JQD 18-268

ISBN

• 9781908617484
• 1908617489
• 9783960982371
• 3960982372

LCCN

9783960982371

OCLC

1007761995

Title

Torbjørn Rødland : the touch that made you / editors, Amira Gad and Joseph Constable.

Publisher

London : Serpentine Galleries, [2017]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Gad, Amira, editor.

Constable, Joseph, editor.

Rødland, Torbjørn, 1970- Photographs. Selections.

Other Standard Identifier

9783960982371

Research Call Number

JQD 18-268