27 artists reflect on the theme of reason and emotions.
Plato claimed that there are two realities; one material and tangible, and one that is more real and based on reason. Plato devalued empirical knowledge and sensory experience, and valued reason. He believed that it is a derailment to enjoy the sensible reality. To enjoy art is also a derailment. We learn about reality through our senses, but the most important knowledge is not obtained through the senses. For there is no organ that can perceive good and evil; that kind of knowledge can only be gained by reflection.
Excerpt from catalog text written by Anne Karin Jortveit:
PLATONS HUSKESTUE acts as a fabulous pictorial entrance to twenty-four juried and three invited artists, where all of them contribute to a rich bundle of fine-tuned and outloud interweaving of the expressive and the analytical.
PLATONS HUSKESTUE does not prioritize any specific form of expression or thematic exploration, but makes room for works that are aware of its forces. Of course, artists work both with ideas and sensory experiences, it is not necessarily the case that it is the opposition itself that is at the center, but rather that there is a plasticity linked to the work with external and internal tensions in an artistic process. Perhaps we can say that artists actualize more or less effortlessly the span between thoughts and feelings, and in the encounter with art you can never take for granted how this has been emphasized.
Artists: Merete Joelsen Aune, Edgar Ballo, Øyvind Botn, Paul Brand, Liv Dessen, Nirmal Singh Dhunsi, Hilmar Fredriksen, Ingwill Gjelsvik, Kirsti Grotmol, Inger Johanne Grytting, Aase Gulbrandsen, Kristine Hjertholm, Ane Mette Hol, Hanne Frey Husø, Anlaug Jakobsen, Kay Arne Kirkebø, Stein Koksvik, Lotte Konow Lund, Anne Rolfsen, Mari Røysamb, Roald Sivertsen, Kamilla Skrinde, Kjetil Skøien, Anne-Karin Sundquist, Øyvind Torseter, Anja Ulset, Heidi Øiseth. Exhibition idea: Wenche Gulbransen.
