for SVERRE VARVIN (second version, daylight)

for my cusin SVERRE VARVIN on his 60. Birthday

with congratulations

for ANDREAS (second version, daylight)

CONGRATULATIONS FOR ANDREAS

who is in Beijing, where the date is already Saturday 21. November, on his 30. Birthday

(first version, lamplight)

TEMPO-SKIEN EXHIBIT 7.NOV. 2009

installation at TEMPO-SKIEN 7.Nov. 2009 exhibition curated by Jan Christensen, Telemark Kunstnersenter

las ventanas

variation without using the corner

VALSE WAND/ FALSE WALL

The inner yard and the oldest building of Voorkamer reminds in some aspects parts of Arsenale in Venice and is excellent for putting up installations using false new walls and including old floors, ceilings and brick walls in decay. There was a lot of cleaning up to be done. Two false walls of MDF-boards were nicely fit in a small room on the ground floor, giving me a perfect corner and leaving an original ochre plastered wall and the entrance door and the window as it was. A single bulb was dangling from the ceiling so it was decided to install four neon tubes that would brighten the space making no shadows. Into this ambience I took great pleasure in setting up the things I had brought and some items found among the great heaps of trash that filled whole rooms in the darker parts of the building. Soon the other participants arrived and the whole place was trembling with ongoing activity, both inside and outside, and on the upper floors. In the other buildings there were rooms for offices, video-projections and larger installations. There was also a small kitchen and a fridge with free beer and vine for us all. There was no abuse during the work.

look up for a larger report of the event at: TRENDBEHEER

VOORKAMER "VALSE WAND"

NO MEASURE - NO LIMIT

INSTALLATION AT TABAKMAGAZIN

UNSTABLE VARIABLE and drawing INEVITABLE (70x100cm)

at TABAKMAGAZIN No. 6

looking back at Sept. 2008

found on Giudecca, Venezia

found on Sacca Fisola, Venezia

found on Zattere, Venezia and adopted as installations

marble in Pietrasanta may 2007

looking back at Feb. 2008

looking back at Jan. 2004

we went FARMSPOTTING for abandoned farms on the west coast of Denmark, November 2003

Pietrasanta

looking back at Aug. 2007

looking back at Jan. 2008

a corner at the Autumn Exhibition of Modern Art 2009, Oslo Norway

USTABIL VARIABEL på Høstutstillingen 2009 sammen med Are Blytt:CC (oppe t.v.) og Jan Trygve Fløysvik U.T. ( til høyre)

for E. H. 50

When a new experiment is started

a whole world of possibilities lies ahead. You know that by initiating it, the variations will multiply rapidly. Insignificant pieces of wood, plywood, iron rods and glass are collected and put together, mostly without knowing what will be the result. Single objects find a way to coexist in a kind of vulnerable harmony. Their instability is an expression of the general, fragile, temporary presence. Indeed, these installations often collapse before they can be documented with the digital camera. But some survive for a few minutes or seconds enough for a snapshot.

I like to build and rebuild; to form structures and let them develop freely, see them succumb spontaneously and then re-emerge as totally different systems.

I am not trying to postpone the inevitable or prolong any illusion of stability. The result of my work should be understood as proposals, not final statements.

studio table

BODEGONES

2002

looking back at September 2005

for Bill Wilson

for ELISABET NORSENG today on her 50. anniversary

In memory of the artist Erling Lindkjølen (1928-2009)

.......seconds later

good-morning exercise in maximalism

for ZACHARY

pick up the camera, shoot..

a few seconds later

ready for take-off

proposal for Tabakmagazin #6 Sept.2009
and the travel kit packing prosedure

looking back at 2007

til TOBIAS på fødselsdagen, 9 år!

INSTALLATION FOR TOBIAS 9 YEARS TODAY

for my grandchild TOBIAS in Copenhagen on his birthday

CONGRATULATIONS

a reconstruction

no chance, it stood fine for five seconds....

nada mas

LIU SI

small changes

instalaltion with SUPERCUBE MENOR

title by Hans: "LUCENT"

HOMMAGE A VERMEER title suggested by Hans

installation with RETRACTOR (2009)

installation with PARVO

JUST BEFORE CRASH (klick here)

Nobody becomes a chessplayer because of love for horses or enthusiasm for the royalties. What makes chess interesting is the beauty of strategies, the position of the pieces, the solutions to the difficult situations, the sudden awakening to new combinations, the challenges of opponents and a hundred other pleasures for each individual player. The game is never exhausted; there are always new discoveries to expect and revelations for your own capacity to imagine.

The installations that I build and tear down are similar to games of chess. I use mostly the same pieces for new combinations. My pleasure is to find new solutions for the different elements to act together within the limited space of a naked corner in my studio. I propose solutions, and let the onlooker imagine further steps for his own satisfaction.

detail from the BLACK TABLE BLOG

gallery view: welded iron and other drawings

(on MINUS SPACE)

WELDED IRON AND OTHER DRAWINGS

GALLERI ERIK STEEN, OSLO

19 MARCH-3 MAY 2009

some examples from an artist-book in prosess

cornetsy in the fencibles..JJ

collage test I

installation with ASPECT II

SMALL GRAY STONE LIFTED

installation with LONG GRAY STONE LIFTED
23 x 47 x 11 cm

CAMPANA: INDIFFERENCE TO TIME (83 x 80 x 65) for exhibit in Bratislava during summer 2009

WELDED IRON preparation for my solo at Galleri Erik Steen OSLO NORWAY
opening 19. March 2009

VESPIARY 1997 (149.5 X 69 X 71)

elevated SUPERCUBES

CRICKET (title suggested by Hans)

for Susanne Kathlen Mader on her birthday

installation with SUPERCUBE MENOR 2009

Drop Zone

(title suggested by Hans)

trying out a new camera: COOLPIX S710

(I'm not satisfied with the colours, too sweet, going towards violet. Can't stand it!

I shall try it some more, but certainly will return to Casio Exilim 12.1. MP)

miniature UNSTABLE VARIABLES

The Museum of Unidentified Objects, Cairo

Entrance Gate to 2009

INSTALLEGO WITH TOBIAS IN COPENHAGEN

with my grandson TOBIAS (8 1/2)

We are happy to announce the opening of our long planned Service Center for Artist Horse Thieves