Kjell Bjorgeengen - New Videoworks

by Jantjes, Gavin & Sandemose, Jorgen

First Edition

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Book Description

Oslo, Norway: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004. Cover flat with very light handling wear - bottom corners have small dings. No dustjacket was issued with this catalogue. Pages clean and bright. 2004 Catalogue and CDto accompany the Oct. 2004 - Jan. 2005 exhibition. 60 pages, with photos throughout, some in color. Includes CD ROM titled 'Grasp IV' issued by the gallery, but I couldn't get it to work. This CD supposedlycontains a 15 minute video art collaboration between Kjell Bjorgeengen visuals and Marc Ribot on guitar and devices. Text in English and also translated to Finnish, Swedish? Or whatever the language of Norway is. Preface by Sune Nordgren, Director. With 5-page essay titled 'Visual Ruins in the Archaeology of Feeling' by Gavin Jantjes and another 5-page essay titled 'Galileo's Messenger: Art, Science & Commodity Production' by Jorgen Sandemose. Includes listing of exhibitions and videography. ABOUT THE ARTIST & EXHIBITION: Kjell Bjorgeengen is a master video artist from Norway. Born in 1951, he is one of Norway's most renowned video artists who has collaborated with leading figures from the world of contemporary and experimental music. His installations are meditative spaces that challenge traditional ideas about video as a medium for entertainment. By manipulating time, light and space, he brings into focus other aspects of video, the media that dominates contemporary visual culture. Most of Bjorgeengen's works deal with a combination of representation, the artists’ subject, and the letting go of subjective control by automated processing from sound. Bjorgeengen's idealistic pursuit of purity and blankness through an amalgamation of sound waves, moving images and lights is like receiving transmissions from the other side. Grainy, ghostly images constantly vibrate and peel off, to reveal hidden forms that build up then disintegrate. Like thousands of abstract and calligraphic messages they are undecipherable. . ISBN: 8291727236. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8.5" x 8.5". Exhibition Catalog.

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