Week 47: Artist talk, neuronal plant network, and evil flowers
Av Mari Lorenzten
There are a lot of art events happening this week in Oslo. Like all past weeks and all the coming ones, what a surprise! As always our art guide would take you on a short journey from a contemporary artist talk to evil flowers and a neuronal network of plants. Sit tight and fasten your seat belt. I wish you an artistic journey with some spicy first snow. O Captain! My Captain! Captain out.
KUNSTNERNES HUS：30:ten with Helene Duckert
30:ten are a series of artist talks held by Kunstnernes Hus that invite you to exclusive insights into contemporary artistry. A panel consisting of students from KHiO and UiO has selected eight active artists who will present themselves and their work in 30 minutes and ten pictures. The lectures are held one Tuesday a month at Kunstnernes Hus Kino and are free and open to everyone. In this first lecture of 30:ten, you will meet Helene Duckert, on Tuesday, November 22, from 17:00 to 18:00.
Flowers in a Crystal Vase
GALLERI 69: OTHER INTELLIGENCES by MARÍA CASTELLANOS
Other Intelligence is an artistic research that aims to explore the communication between plants by plants located in different places around the world connected by a neuronal plant network. Through a combination of art exhibitions and scientific research, Castellanos proposes the question if plants have their own language and how they communicate with it. The exhibition in Galleri 69 is available from Thursday to Sunday, 13:00-17:00.
Read more about the exhibition here!
OSL CONTEMPORARY: Opening of Flowers of Evil by Dag Erik Elgin
Flowers of Evil by Dag Erik Elgin provides another angle of viewing the plants. In his recreations of Eduard Manet’s (1832–1883) final works, the sixteen still life paintings of flowers produced during the period between 1881–1883, Dag Erik Elgin interprets the flowers as a metaphor to Treponema pallidum, a spiral shaped species of bacteria that causes the disease syphilis. And it is syphilis that was believed the cause of Manet’s death, les fleurs du mal.
Read more about the exhibition here!
Ha en strålende kunstuke!