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Fredrik Værslev in Bodø
Erlend Hammer
If at any point a ranking were to be made of the most absurd coincidences in recent art history, we would find close to the top the fact that the grotesque corner bathtub in Fredrik Værslev’s exhibition at Stormen kunst/dájdda in Bodø looks as if it had been custom-built, almost to the millimeter, for the corner in which it has been installed. The fact that something so ugly can even end up being installed so elegantly is an achievement, an ironic stroke of accidental genius. Værslev’s idea for placing objet trouvé bathtubs spread out in the exhibition space, and hanging the paintings in relation to them, originally came from a photograph of one of the American artist Christopher Wool’s Riot paintings, installed above a swimming pool in what seemed to be a gem of a modernist villa. Wool’s display is a...More
Press Release
Fredrik Værslev in Bodø
Erlend Hammer
If at any point a ranking were to be made of the most absurd coincidences in recent art history, we would find close to the top the fact that the grotesque corner bathtub in Fredrik Værslev’s exhibition at Stormen kunst/dájdda in Bodø looks as if it had been custom-built, almost to the millimeter, for the corner in which it has been installed. The fact that something so ugly can even end up being installed so elegantly is an achievement, an ironic stroke of accidental genius. Værslev’s idea for placing objet trouvé bathtubs spread out in the exhibition space, and hanging the paintings in relation to them, originally came from a photograph of one of the American artist Christopher Wool’s Riot paintings, installed above a swimming pool in what seemed to be a gem of a modernist villa. Wool’s display is a...More
