策展人：金智芸086-21-62277458 dakuart@126.com Curator:赵丹虹13061621246 hollyz_art@126.com
展览标题：瞬间 ——挪威艺术家Erik Steffen Alvaer综合媒介艺术展
The Moment: Erik Steffen Alvaer Mixed Media Art Exhibition
展览协办：挪威王国驻上海总领事馆 Royal Norwegian Consulate General
展览时间：2013年10月19日至25日（周一休息）
开幕时间：2013年10月19日15：00开始
Opening Reception:3: 00pm,19th,Oct,2013
展览地点：上海大库艺术画廊 莫干山路26号
Venue：No 26，Moganshan Road,Daku Art Gallery
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挪威王国艺术家Erik Steffen alvaer的个人综合媒介艺术作品，中国巡回展《瞬间》，今年春天在广州举办了第一站展览后，来到上海，将于2013年10月19日至25日，在上海莫干山路26号的大库艺术举办，展览将展出埃瑞克先生近30幅综合材料作品。
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初次看到Erik Steffen alvaer的作品，被他作品的鲜亮色彩和抽象非抽象的图式所吸引，作品中有暗示时间流逝的抽象意味，又有岁月留给艺术家的美好记忆：温馨的家庭、美丽的妻子、漂亮的花园、舒适的空间、温存的宠物、宁静的山林……观者可以从埃瑞克的作品中看到很多，看着这些图像，这些生活中被定格的瞬间，被艺术家用自己的想法和艺术手法融合在了一起，看着这些作品，也会引发观者的想象力和美好记忆，激发起内心对美好生活的感恩，与艺术家的心灵相呼应。Erik希望当代人的生活，应该部分地享受以往的简单、温馨、柔美、缓慢的时代，在有限的生命时间里体会更多人与人、人与自然之间的爱。
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Erik近年开始使用各种综合材料，以拼贴、绘画等方式，创造出这一系列的作品，这些作品有别于西方传统绘画的地方在于：这些作品都是在白色底子上创作的，借鉴了中国水墨画的留白，抽象立体的西方表现艺术，与中国传统美感融合，是时空的交错，是心灵的沟通，也是这位专业艺术家40年来，从艺术史研究到艺术技法训练，从古典艺术作品到综合媒体艺术创作的一次总结。
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从西方到东方，无论是生活还是艺术创作，Erik以怀旧兼具创新的视角看待他曾经生活过的地方，用混合媒体的艺术手法创作作品，表现他的心路历程和哲学艺术观点的转变与借鉴。东方的文化，正以其内敛深沉的力量，打动和启发着这位生活在别处的西方艺术家的心路历程。
本次展览得到了挪威王国驻上海总领事馆的大力支持，特此感谢！
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挪威王国艺术家Erik Steffen alvaer简历
CVThe Academy in Rauland – 72-74
Oslo Art and Craft School,-74-76
Bachelor; Art History, psychology and Media Science- The University of Bergen
Gallery Das Fenster, Hamburg 1976
Debute on the Official Norwegian art scene on Westland Exhibition In 1986
Gallery Siverts, Bergen 1985
Solo exhibition In Bergen Art association I 1986,
Gallery Kampen, Oslo 1988
Gallery Kampen, Oslo 1991
The Reksten Art Foundation , Bergen 1995
Gallery Siverts, Bergen 1997
Fana New Art and Cultural House, Bergen 2010
Redtory, Guangzhou, Kina 2012
Erik Steffen Alvaer
http://www.esalvaer.com
Scratches of time
Erik Steffen alvaer – recent works
Lecture around his last exhibition in Bergen, Norway
By Mayra Elena Henriques – art historian / conveys and member of the Norwegian cultural council
Erik Steffen Alvaer`s recent production of art. A portfolio that has been materialized during the last year, but with significant marks of long time`s planning.
In Alvaer`s production there has been some changes both in materials and technique. In his production in the late 80- and 90- the pastel chalk and acrylic were the dominating techniques. Comparing with oil, pastel chalk and acrylic open up for more spontanic and rapidly work style. This way to work contributed to catch and freeze quick and rapid moments from the intimate and private sphere, first and foremost woman. Later on the expression transformed into a rawer and wild set of motifs: wolf-looking figures, horses and woman with claws...
Alvaer has been characterized as an expressionistic painter who manages to express thoughts, meanings and subjectivity at the same time as he paradox ally manage to capture the reality manifested around him.
What can we discover today in this exhibition?
Alvaers artistry is experimental. With this categorisation I mean to say his art is never satisfied, quit contrary, it`s an art which seeks relations, confrontations and plays of games. This manifests itself clearly in the development taken place in the pieces of arts` materials, technique and form.
We find a pluralistic expression; an expression which mix well known and established preferences from the weste art history ( Like manet`s ”Olympia” and Picasso`s cubistic woman, mixed with Chinese oaments, animal like figures, other ”ready mades" and Chinese popular culture.
The method Alvaer uses has been more complex and diverse. Here it is used collage with the ordinary "clip and glue technique” and computer manipulation. New works are mixed with copies of earlier made works of print, and pastel chalk, ink and tagging are mixed together. At the same time some of the works motifs are surrounded by contours witch emphasize their importance as we can observe it in more spontaneous graffiti and street art.
In addiction we find text, both computer and hand written text. Some of the text manifest itself in short comments and statements written into speech bubbles which are implemented into the works themselves but also outside the protective glass of the picture. We also find poems written by the artist himself.
The works of art remind about the post-modeistic expression:”anything goes”. Here borrows, mixes and recreates many preferences and methods without consideration to other laws and established rules than the rules Alvaer need himself to give birth for what he wants to communicate.
His stays in China and the city of Nanning inspired Alvaer. It gave freedom and opened up for experimentation in his production. It exist an experimental, tentatively and pragmatic practice in his art. It is as if the works want to solve a problem; to discover something amongst all the layers of pictures and text. All the pictures bear the signs of chaos, spontaneity and disorder, but this is only apparently. All the pictures bear a logic, an inteal logic within each frame but also within the showroom. In this showroom we see a group of thoughtful pictures. I say a group and not many individual images. Each image is like chapter in a book. They complement each other and together they make a story.
We can read conflicts, opposites, dreams, humor and irony. - something happens in the pictures. It creates a mood and a variety of situations.
The comments contained in speech bubbles are so volative that the speech itself. They can be washed away without problem and new text and “chapters” can be rewritten and be added.
Text and the images together tell something about the thoughts volatility and about time and changes in general. The animal figures ( wolf or dog, pig, cat, bird are the “original form” that stands in contrast to the volative text they are solid evidence that run through all the pictures and somehow also creates a text, a more confident and basic text.
All the different elements and motifs in the works of art ceases to be Easte and Weste elements and become part of a frame of reference, a storage Alvaer can use again and again. Here takes place (post) production of old and new items of originals, and this is something only those who are on the fringe, the one that is both inside and outside can do.
Time and time slots are present here and more “Scratches of time” will hopefully come.
Mayra Henriques
Art historian