Collective exhibition at Astrup Fearnley museum

Space Making is an exhibition addressing depth and spatiality in painting.

Space Making - a collective exhibition with abstract paintings

Hanne Borchgrevink, Robert Burnier, Miyoko Ito, Atta Kwami, Julia Rommel, Gerda Scheepers, Vivian Suter and Vegard Vindenes

The modernist notion of painting as a medium of flatness and two-dimensionality has always also implied its ability to create a sense of space and depth. The artists presented here employ the language of painting as a vehicle for spatial construction: on canvas, in architecture, and as a conceptual tool.

Several distinct approaches emerge in and amongst these works: an emphasis on the physical space of the exhibition or the physicality of the painted object itself; the use of painterly techniques to construct depth—both as an abstraction and as tangible, physical spatiality; and space as metaphor—investigating how the painted surface can hold psychological or metaphysical depth through form and figuration.

Other artists in the exhibition depict architectural-like objects within a visual field, often serving as catalysts to imagine a world.

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