We invite you to a members' meeting on the theme of drawing as art in public spaces.
Friday: Thursday, November 2
Time: 17.30-19.00
Location: Tegnerforbundet
Registration (for members only):
Mail: post@tegnerforbundet.no
Subject area: Members' meeting -Drawing as art in public space
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About the member meeting
In this members' meeting, we will highlight how artists who work with drawing can transfer this medium to art in public space projects. When we work with drawing, it is usually with paper and pencil, and the expression is limited by how we can physically move. Art in public spaces projects are often large, in outdoor spaces or in buildings that are frequented by many people and thus require the use of durable materials. Developing and creating art in public spaces is work that artists are actually paid for, unlike creating exhibitions and focusing on sales, these projects have real budgets. We want to inform and inspire our members about how these commissions are also relevant for artists working with drawing as a medium.
Trond Hugo Haugen, senior advisor at KORO, will show examples where drawing has been the starting point or chosen technique in works from KORO's collection, as well as share his own experience with drawing as a public work from work at KORO and assignments as a visual artist. Furthermore, visual artists Vanna Bowles and Robert Johansson will talk about art in public spaces - projects where drawing was a starting point, as well as how they solved this assignment.
Vanna Bowles (1974) was educated at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and the Universität der Künste in Berlin, and since 2001 has had an active exhibition activity in Norway and internationally. Bowles explores drawing in combination with sculpture, objects and performance and is stylistically situated in a surrealist and photorealistic idiom. Bowles often uses optical effects and reliefs that destabilize the boundaries between the picture plane and space, and she has made a name for herself by combining drawing with sculpture in a distinctive way.
Robert Johansson (1977) works with place-sensitive contexts - genius loci - where the works have multiple components that form a whole. Like an essay, the works have some recessed, close-study sections, while other parts have direct and sketch-like qualities, all in close dialog with material and tactility.
Trond Hugo Haugen (1975) works with drawing, relational works/social processes and artist-controlled structures. He has been affiliated with KORO since 2010 and is now project manager for new art for the UiO Life Science Building in Oslo.
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Picture (from left): Robert Johansson, Vanna Bowles, Trond Hugo Haugen (photo: Christina Leithe).
