Research Catalog

Title

Fredrik Værslev : all around amateur / [texts, Ina Blom [and three others] ; editors, Martin Clark, Steinar Sekkingstad ; translations, James Manley].

Author

Værslev, Fredrik, 1979-

Publication

Bergen : Bergen Kunsthall ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blom, Ina
• Clark, Martin, 1976-
• Sekkingstad, Steinar
• Manley, James (James Alexander Kennedy)
• Bergen kunsthall, host institution.
• Consortium (Art center : Dijon, France), issuing body.
• Bergen International Festival (2016 : Bergen, Norway), host institution.

Description

352 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm.

Summary

Fredrik Værslev?s work navigates between different painterly traditions, and demonstrates the possibilities and relevance of the medium today. He treats his paintings as objects, often created through more or less laborious, serial, or deterministic processes where time itself, as well as various external factors, become active cocreators in the making of the work. In several series, he has left his paintings outdoors for long periods of time, allowing the weather and external wear to complete the work. Other works employ apparently clichéd techniques, motifs, or art-historical quotations (i.e., dripping and splattering). More recently, Værslev has been working with a tool used for marking painted lines on roads and sports fields. 00Published in conjunction with Fredrik Værselv?s exhibition 'All Around Amateur' at the Bergen Kunsthall and Le Consortium, Dijon, this publication, comes in two different versions, with each book comprising 320 one-to-one digital images scanned from eight of Værslev?s new ?sunset? paintings. Each canvas produces a total of eighty scanned images, which are reproduced in the book sequentially, left to right, top to bottom. The full-bleed scans in each ?volume,? together, reproduce an entire wall of paintings from the exhibition. The paintings, based on photographs of sunsets taken by Værslev on his iPhone from airplane windows, evoke the work of art-historical figures such as J. M. W. Turner, Mark Rothko, and Edvard Munch. 00The catalogue also includes newly commissioned texts by Ina Blom, Martin Clark, and Steinar Sekkingstad as well as an interview with artist Anne Pontégnie.

Alternative Title

All around amateur

Subjects

• Sun > Rising and setting > In art > Exhibitions
• Værslev, Fredrik > Exhibitions

Note

• On the occasion of an exhibition held at Bergen Kunsthall, Festspillutstillingen / Bergen International Festival Exhibition 2016, May 26 - August 14, 2016; Le Consortium, Dijon, November 18, 2016 - February 19, 2017.
• Contains no title page, title from spine.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9783956792298 (pbk.)
• 3956792297 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocn953712753
• SCSB-1864800

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library