[OSCAAR MOULIGNE LLC] Gardar Eide Einarsson solo exhibition “Ride of the Valkyries” Continues
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Press release: September 3, 2024
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Gardar Eide Einarsson Solo Exhibition “Ride of the Valkyries” Continues *Held from Saturday, September 7th at Gallery OSCAAR MOULIGNE* Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson solo exhibition “Ride of the “The Ride of the Valkyries” continues at Gallery OSCAAR
Held at MOULIGNE from Saturday, September 7, 2024 to Saturday, November 23, 2024. The paintings and sculptures exhibited this time will be exhibited for the first time.
Einarson is known for his work that examines the complex relationships of authority and hierarchies that exist within social, political, and economic structures. Crossing a diverse range of genres, from painting to sculpture, collage, silkscreen, and installation, Einarson uses approaches such as appropriation, assemblage, and abstraction of existing images to create works that unsettle viewers. We construct a narrative and explore the situations in which individuals come to question established authority.
In examining and dissecting various cultures, histories, identities, and the relationships between them, Einarson reveals that beneath the surface of seemingly mundane daily life, fear and conflict are hidden everywhere. It is the fact that there is, or is being forced into it. Einarsson’s work is filled with visual signs and symbols drawn from a variety of sources, from popular culture to political iconography, utopian ideologies, and subcultures. By stripping images and objects from their original contexts, Einarson almost completely drains them of their original meaning. The resulting works are sophisticated and coded expressions, often imbued with cynicism and humor,
simultaneously pointing to the exercise of power and resistance to it. Such images are often combined with formal languages such as minimalism and geometric abstraction on surfaces that are strictly monochromatic or black and white, and are often combined with readymades, pop art of the 1960s and 1970s, and conceptual art. References are made to art history.
For the paintings and paper works on display in this exhibition, Einarson uses closed captions from movies and television programs ranging from war to science fiction to stand-up comedy. Einarson creates an emptiness by extracting phrases such as vocal gestures, sounds, background noise, and background music from their original contexts and placing them on a solid black screen. There are no visual images, and the viewer has no choice but to experience situations that stir up strong emotions and psychology through the written words, and read various nuances therein. While there are poetic descriptions of the calm before the storm, there are also prophetic narratives that serve to evoke ideas of paranoia, psychoanalysis, and the unknown. This time, we will introduce the RAL color chart (a German-made There will also be an installation of ready-made sculptures powder coated based on industrial/commercial color swatches.
Einarson’s polychrome sculptures, which are more meditative than the paintings exhibited at the same time, reference minimalism in both form and concept, and how minimalist artists such as Judd used outdated industrial production techniques. Based on what I was using. Exploring the ideology behind the initially utopian era of
cryptocurrencies, Einarson’s new work draws attention to the fact that technology ages at an extremely rapid rate in modern society, and explores the need for various management systems. It silently hints that the current state of the world is uncertain, and that its very foundations are beginning to waver.
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Born in Oslo, Norway in 1976. Lives in Tokyo. Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (Bergen), Städel University of Fine Arts (Germany)
Studied at Frankfurt am Main), Whitney Independent Program (New York), and Cooper Union School of Architecture (New York).
Solo exhibitions: Aros Aarhus Museum (Denmark), Astrup Fernley Museum of Contemporary Art (Oslo), Bergen Kunsthal, Bonniels Konsthal (Stockholm), Geneva Center for Contemporary Art, St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Art, Friedericianum (Kassel), Frankfurt. Kunstverein, Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, Reykjavik Art Museum, and more. He has also participated in the Whitney Biennale, Istanbul Biennale, Sydney Biennale, etc.
Public Collections: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MoCA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum (California), Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, Malmö Museum of Modern Art, Astrup Fernley Museum of Contemporary Art (Oslo), Norwegian National Museum (Oslo), etc.
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*“Ride of the Valkyries” Continues*
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