Exhibition Opening On Sunday Sept. 6th, 2009, from 3 to 6pm. With the presence of the artist and The Norwegian Embassy

Exhibition Introduction:

EARS

Ears have always interested me. They are the form that visualizes one of our primary senses. Their form is totally individual, maybe as individual as a fingerprint.

Our sense of beauty around ears is also strongly individual. In acupuncture the ear represents a total replica of our body. To me it is an extremely interesting form to play with as sculpture and symbol.

CRYSTAL OBJECTS

On being confronted with the "string theory".

As a sculptor, the concept of the string theory to describe the universe resonated with me. Steven Hawkins could not incorporate gravity into his ultimate equation because it reacted too slowly. The string theory arose from the concept that you have to think of gravity in at least 9 or even up to 11 dimensions. It operates with open strings and closed strings which are comprised of gravitons. The idea of a circle with a fighting gravity inside it inspired me as a sculptural concept. I have explored this concept digitally on computers as well as in my usual media of clay and crystal.

Bard Breivik, August, 20th, 2009, Oslo

Artist Introduction:

Bard Breivik (b. 1948) graduated from Bergen School of Arts and Crafts in 1970, and St. Martin''s School of Art in London in 1971, where he studied under Anthony Caro. At age 34, Breivik became a professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, where he stayed for three years until 1985. Since the 1970''s, he has exhibited widely in galleries and museums across Europe and in New York. His works are found in the collections of, among others, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, The Art Museum of the Atheneum, Helsinki, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, and The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, presented a major survey exhibition of Breivik''s work in 2005.

Breivik sees sculptures as material, and although the classical sculptural problems interest him, he places emphasis on the sculptures'' actual forms and pictorial quality. Breivik is continually exploring the relationship between mass and material, shape, structure and scale, the various stages from first to final form, and the potential inherent in different materials. He seeks to create perfect congruence between the shape and the form, and issues he has addressed in one series are often continued in another. Breivik''s structures can be seen as commentary on man-made structures – hollow shells around a volume – but can also be interpreted as vessels for the artist''s own experiences and memories. They evoke exploration of basic shapes, materials, necessities, and craftsmanship in different cultures. Breivik aims to test the absolute limit of a given material, such as wood, stone, and more recently, plastic and bronze, in forms that have been rendered digitally. Breivik''s large sculptures lend themselves well to large spaces, as seen in his many public commissions.Bard Breivik lives and works in Norway, Sweden and China.

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