Oslo Open is an annual event where artists invite the public to their studios for a weekend. This year I’ll be showing some new works in an informal setting at Møllergata 34 - the office of Forbundet Frie Fotografer. The doors will be open from 12h-18h on April 24th.
Nordic Light Festival
I’ll be exhibiting during this year’s rendition of Nordic Light Festival, as well as delivering a small talk and reviewing work for the annual portfolio review. The festival takes place in Kristiansund Oct. 27 - Oct. 31.
The full program can be found on Nordic Light’s website.
Klepp kunstforening
I’ll be exhibiting eighteen pictures of trees, plants and shrubbery at Klepp kunstforening the first two weekends of October. Delayed by nearly a year due to the pandemic, I’m excited I now get to show the work as intended. The project has received support from Klepp kommune and the event page can be found here:
https://fb.me/e/1JJd0Iw2h
C4 Journal review
Karin Bareman recently reviewed the book for C4 Journal. The full review can be read at https://c4journal.com/the-ghost-of-john-szarkowski-bill-dane-pictures
”By simply glancing at the pictures and scanning the accompanying texts, you can generally ‘get’ the subject matter of most photo books, even if you return to them at a later date and discover unexpected hidden depths. Not so with the recent publication of Bill Dane’s work. For this is no ordinary photo book.”
Kunstbokmessen B*stard 2021
On May 27-29 we will be participating with Bill Dane Pictures …it’s not pretty at the Norwegian art book fair B*stard. Due to Covid-19 much of the programming will take place online at bastardbok.no.
Article at urbanautica.com
Steve Bisson recently wrote about my collaboration with Bill Dane, the publication we did and Bill’s work for urbanautica.com.
“I found it strange that we had to wait for a young photographer from Norway to browse a retrospective of the work of a great "outsider" of American art. I feel great sympathy for Mail Art, Fluxus, and previous attempts to de-dramatize art and make it accessible, emphasizing the process and not just the final product. It was about bringing art back into motion, making it "viable" and collectivizing. Perhaps if today we exchange photographic prints at a distance without necessarily going through galleries, quotations, increases, and other devilries of the art market, it is also thanks to this possibility of imagination that the avant-gardes have transmitted. Bill Dane proves in unsuspecting times that he understood that we would end up replacing reality with its projection. He had caught the "spectaculative" drift of the world in art, in communication, in politics, and thus in image-making.“
You can read the whole article here:
https://urbanautica.com/review/dan-skjaveland/2350
Exhibition with William Keckler at Galleri ni
January 2nd and 3rd I’ll be exhibiting alongside the poet William Keckler at Galleri ni in Bryne, Norway. Keckler has written short texts to accompany 80 of my pictures and a selection of these pairings will be displayed on the gallery walls. The full work can be seen in a small booklet produced for the exhibition.
photo-eye's favorite photobooks from 2020
Photo-eye invited 70 photobook notables to present their favorite photobooks from 2020. Tim Carpenter chose ours.
An extract from his text:
"One of the book’s subtitles is “... it’s not pretty,” and I suppose that’s the case because nor is life, but equally true is Szarkowski’s assertion that Dane discovered “a kind of optimism, still available at least to the eye.” Which is why you might call him a photographer’s photographer: affirmative meaning lies in the pictures (in the seeing), and not in anything external to them – a stance not much in vogue these days. The book’s other subtitle is “I’m still in love.” Same here. This kind of thing is the reason why.”
You can read the whole text at photoeye.com. We also received honorable mentions from Jeff Mermelstein and Mark Steinmetz.
Presentation at Trondheim Art Book Fair
On November 3 I’ll deliver a short presentation about the publication Bill Dane Pictures …it’s not pretty at Trondheim Kunstmuseum. The event is part of Trondheim Art Book Fair and the festival Trondheim Open.
Gymsal - a group exhibition
Gymsal is a group exhibition dealing ‘with the idea of building as a place that serves a function’. I’ll be participating with six photographs and the exhibition - which is part of Trondheim Open 2020’s official program - will open on Oct 31. The exhibiton takes place at an old gymnasium and has received support from Trondheim kommune, Sparebankstiftelsen SMN, Norwegian Visual Artists Fund and Arts Council Norway.