About ellen-k FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Welcome to the ellen-k FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY web-site.
FINE
ART PHOTOGRAPHY can please, provoke, engage, and pose disquieting
critical questions by exposing what we prefer not to discuss openly, and
at the same time display mesmerizing beauty.
ellen-k
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY identifies and promotes Fine Art Photographers
with high social awareness and consciousness. We promote artists asking
questions, rather than offer us all the answers - artwork containing
beauty, irritation, humor, resistance and delight.
ellen-k
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY will be opening a gallery celebrating FINE ART
PHOTOGRAPHY in Oslo, September 2010.
Please
enjoy our virtual gallery, and feel free to contact us for a one-to-one
presentation of the artwork and the artistbooks that we offer.
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Roger Ballen currently has a retrospective exhibition at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo
Roger Ballen currently has a retrospective exhibition at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo (www.stenersen.museum.no).
The exhibition will be on view till the 23rd of January, and consists of photographs from the 'Boarding House' series, the 'Outland' series, the 'Shadow Chamber' series. A film - and also 4 images from his most recent body of work, 'The Asylum' are also presented in the show.... enjoy...
The exhibition will be on view till the 23rd of January, and consists of photographs from the 'Boarding House' series, the 'Outland' series, the 'Shadow Chamber' series. A film - and also 4 images from his most recent body of work, 'The Asylum' are also presented in the show.... enjoy...
ellen-k FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Roger Ballen
Title: Twirling Wires
Size: 40*40 cm Limited edition of 20. 16+ sold, POR. Courtesy ellen-k FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Border District/Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum
Torsdag 23 sept kl.19.00
Denne utstillingen kretser rundt døden som et tabubelagt tema i vår tid
og presenterer en rekke norske og utenlandske kunstnere, som med ganske
forskjellige innfallsvinkler har tatt for seg fenomenet. Noen uttrykker
følelsen av tap og sorg etter at nærstående er gått bort, andre retter
søkelyset mot alderdommens tilst...ander og status, eller reflekterer over
våre holdninger til det ofte utenkelige selvmordet. Også betraktninger
rundt det håpefulle spørsmålet om det finnes noe på den andre siden, om
det finnes et liv etter døden, blir presentert.
7th LANE – Events and opening hours.
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.
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…
7th LANE – Photography, Sculpture & Video
Roger Ballen
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.
THE DIVINE IMAGE – Steinar Christensen exhibition in Denmark.
Russian icons are challenged by the
Norwegian artist Steinar Christensen’s colorful photographs. The
exhibition “The Divine Image” at The Museum for Religious Art in
Lemberg, Denmark, juxtaposes a selection of the collection of Gallery Bodøgaards icons to mr
Christensens photographs. The belief in the inherent divinity of Russian
icons have been important for their design and attractiveness.
Juxtaposing Russian icons to contemporary photography creates an
interesting dialogue on the authenticity of contemporary photography and
art, and the reach for the divine. Museum
for Religious Art, Lemberg, from 13th of March to 16th of May
2010.
First preview – `From the 5 corners of the world` by Steinar Christensen
It is with great pride we announce that the Norwegian artist
Steinar Christensen (1946) is among the artists represented by ellen-k
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY. This is the first preview of Christensens latest
body of work, `From the 5 corners of the world`.
Please contact us to arrange a private viewing of the artwork.
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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