Tone Hansen

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) made a name for herself on the international art scene during the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a key figure in the new generation of young artists who, at the beginning of the 1960s, were redefining the boundaries of what an artwork could be. Saint Phalle had a clear sociopolitical agenda and feminist commitment throughout her career, and to an increasing degree, she worked in close dialogue with society and her audience, inviting them into monumental architectonic constructions in public settings. This catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway, explores the different facets of this pioneering artist’s practices; her feminist commitment, her public art, her role as a muse for the fashion giant Dior, as well as her interest in film and theatre.

Writers from Edmund de Waal to Judith Schalansky on an acclaimed photography collection Celebrating the titular collection, Exposed gathers responses to some of its legendary holdings. Included are writers such as Ian Buruma, Jon Fosse, Edmund de Waal and others, on Nan Goldin, Shomei Tomatsu, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Daido Moriyama and many more.

Katalogen er utgitt i anledning kunstnerens retrospektive utstillinger ved Henie Onstad Kunstsenter og Sørlandet kunstmuseum i 2019-20

Ljusbacken was one of the leading communes in Sweden in the 1970s. It represented much of what came to be associated with the "hippie movement" and later the "prog movement". Much of the most extreme phenomena in the movement resided here. Healing, primal scream therapy, yoga, meditation, drugs, sexual liberation were essentially important ingredients. In Ljusbacken, artist Joanna Lombard visits the mythical place of her childhood home, searching its surfaces for an answer to an unknown question. The book is the artist's journey of facing the memories and extracted stories that were generated during her childhood in the commune. Using contemporary photographs of the places where the stories unfolded a tension is created between the stories' time and space.

Håkon Bleken er en av Norges fremste samtidskunstnere. Han har hatt en lang rekke separatutstillinger i landets viktigste gallerier og har et stort og engasjert publikum. Bleken blir ofte beskrevet som en litterær maler, både fordi han gjerne bruker litterære verker som utgangspunkt og fordi han forteller historier i bildene sine. Menneskelig lidelse og samfunnsengasjement er sentrale temaer som går igjen i kunsten hans. Hans definitive gjennombrudd som kunstner kom i 1971 med en serie kulltegninger kalt Fragmenter av et diktatur. Dette er en praktbok med de viktigste kulltegningene til en av vår tids store mestere. Tegningene presenteres og analyseres av kurator Tone Hansen.