Marianne Hurum
Hender og Flasker og Pærer (Vasse)
NEVVEN ON SITE — Web Presentation
Nov 12 — Dec 20, 2020

• NEVVEN is proud to present Hender og Flasker og Pærer (Vasse), a solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Marianne Hurum. The show features two new paintings and a sculpture presented the off-site setting of an empty pool in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition is part of the NEVVEN ON SITE program.

  Inspired by well known historical precedents, like the famous Hockney’s underwater pool decorations, Hurum chooses to place the artworks in an environment characterised by the presence of water, which resounds with and enhance the fluidity of her marks and the organic shapes of her sculptures. By placing, or better displacing, the works in such environment, the artist digs deeper in the connection between the fluidity of the painterly gesture and the actual properties of water, which involves an investigation on both the physical sensations induced by water in the body and the artistic sensibility involved in capturing such subject.

  The pool becomes a metaphor for the painterly gesture, as man-made as the brushstrokes are, it contains the water as its properties remain unchanged. In Hender og Flasker og Pærer (Vasse), which is the Norwegian for: hands and bottles and pears (wade), the objects appear as seen through water, through a fluid patina, like how one sees things when opening their eyes underwater. Hurum’s skilfulness and her uncompromisingly playful approach, are the ones of an artist who does not like to observe from above, but instead prefers to dive in, or wade through, immersing herself into the subjects she explores.

   

  NEVVEN ON SITE is a format of exhibitions that wants to question and expand both the classic idea of art show and the artist’s agency in the curatorial process. Using the possibilities given by the digital dissemination of artistic contents, the artists are invited to conceive not only a body of new works for an exhibition but also to define an off— site setting in which the works are installed and documented. These exhibitions are non—viable to visit in person and would be impossible to fit a gallery space. The goal is to expand the program of the gallery and the possibilities of the invited artists, specifically their control over, not only the shown works, but the very environment in which these works are presented and their perception. NEVVEN ON SITE is a regular program of 6 exhibitions per year that from May 2020 sidelines the regular events hosted by NEVVEN’s gallery space in Göteborg.

• NEVVEN is proud to present Hender og Flasker og Pærer (Vasse), a solo exhibition by Norwegian artist Marianne Hurum. The show features two new paintings and a sculpture presented the off-site setting of an empty pool in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition is part of the NEVVEN ON SITE program.

  Inspired by well known historical precedents, like the famous Hockney’s underwater pool decorations, Hurum chooses to place the artworks in an environment characterised by the presence of water, which resounds with and enhance the fluidity of her marks and the organic shapes of her sculptures. By placing, or better displacing, the works in such environment, the artist digs deeper in the connection between the fluidity of the painterly gesture and the actual properties of water, which involves an investigation on both the physical sensations induced by water in the body and the artistic sensibility involved in capturing such subject.

  The pool becomes a metaphor for the painterly gesture, as man-made as the brushstrokes are, it contains the water as its properties remain unchanged. In Hender og Flasker og Pærer (Vasse), which is the Norwegian for: hands and bottles and pears (wade), the objects appear as seen through water, through a fluid patina, like how one sees things when opening their eyes underwater. Hurum’s skilfulness and her uncompromisingly playful approach, are the ones of an artist who does not like to observe from above, but instead prefers to dive in, or wade through, immersing herself into the subjects she explores.

   

  NEVVEN ON SITE is a format of exhibitions that wants to question and expand both the classic idea of art show and the artist’s agency in the curatorial process. Using the possibilities given by the digital dissemination of artistic contents, the artists are invited to conceive not only a body of new works for an exhibition but also to define an off— site setting in which the works are installed and documented. These exhibitions are non—viable to visit in person and would be impossible to fit a gallery space. The goal is to expand the program of the gallery and the possibilities of the invited artists, specifically their control over, not only the shown works, but the very environment in which these works are presented and their perception. NEVVEN ON SITE is a regular program of 6 exhibitions per year that from May 2020 sidelines the regular events hosted by NEVVEN’s gallery space in Göteborg.

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