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Fifth Honeymoon
Hardback
Main Details
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Fifth Honeymoon
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Torbjorn Rodland
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By (author) Steinar Sekkingstad
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By (author) Axel Wieder
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:136 | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 197 |
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Category/Genre | Exhibition catalogues and specific collections |
ISBN/Barcode |
9783956794124
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Sternberg Press
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Imprint |
Sternberg Press
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Publication Date |
2 October 2018 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
This publication accompanies Torbj rn R dland's exhibition "Fifth Honeymoon," produced as a collaboration between Bergen Kunsthall; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and Helsinki's Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma; and featuring thirty new photographs and a new video work, his first in eleven years. Photographed exclusively on analog material, often in staged studio settings, R dland's works hold a unique place in the treatment of images by artists today. His photographs have an almost uncomfortable ambiguity, fully aware as they are of the power of images and the slippery comfort of normative formats, while simultaneously showing a sincere desire for the emotions and the magic that are at play in the world. His photographs manifest what we experience as beautiful, and sometimes repulsive, but not in any conventional way. R dland makes use of these aesthetic categories and the forms in which they are expressed, and confronts them, complicates them, and exaggerates them with contradictory concepts, such as the uncanny, the nasty, the messy.Fifth Honeymoon features all of the new works in Torbj rn R dland's eponymous exhibition, as well as newly commissioned essays by the American writer and cultural theorist Sianne Ngai and artist colleague Matias Faldbakken. Copublished with Bergen Kunsthall; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Contributors Matias Faldbakken, Sianne Ngai
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