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Luisacatucci Gallery LUISACATUCCI GALLERY ARTIST DOSSIER KENNETH BLOM Short Biography Kenneth Blom was born in 1967 in Roskilde, Denmark. After moving to Norway as a child, and spending a year in Spain after school, he went on to study at the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo. During his time at the Academy, he first experienced the conflict between figurative and conceptual art, which has continued to preoccupy him throughout his career. Following his time at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, he became influenced by the likes of Dan Flavin and Joseph Beuys, and as a result, his painting became increasingly minimalistic. In fact for a period, he abandoned the paintbrush in favour of the airbrush and started to paint on aluminium in order to enhance the coolness and machine-like qualities in his treatment of the picture surface. His most iconic work to date, entitled Birth, depicts an ambiguous scene where a man half-seated in a hospital bed is being attended by another man dressed entirely in black. References to the work of Edvard Munch are present throughout the work, both in its composition and in Blom’s use of hovering infants flanking the central motif, reminiscent of Munch’s Madonna of 1894. Munch is also a huge influence on Blom’s landscapes, which have a tendency to express moods and states of mind. Both his figurative works and his land- scapes seem to explore the melancholy that has been such a preoccupation of Norwegian artists through the ages. “Antibes”, 140 x 160 cm, 2019 About Kenneth’s painting The paintings of Kenneth Blom employ a unique blend of architectural and figurative elements. His gestures are restrained and his spaces are intentionally vast, creating an overt sense of symbolism. While Blom’s figures often seem to merge with their surroundings, they also appear forlorn and unfulfilled in the context of the world at large. The audience follows the artist’s footsteps through abstracted details, colorist investigations and tableaus from both the public and private sphere. Through aesthetically processed and experimental reasoning, the answers emerge. Along the way one may observe a repertoire constantly expanding in terms of both color and composition. Both his figurative works and his landscapes seem to explore the melancholy that has been such a preoccupation of Norwegian artists through the ages. Pekin Fine Arts “Superior”, 140 x 90 cm, 2019 “Endless”, 140 x 160cm, 2019 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Luisa Catucci Berlin Jason McCoy gallery New York Gallery Dropsfabrikken Trondhjem 2018 Pekin fine art Beijing 2017 Muster Meier Gallery Bern/Svitzerland Pekin Fine art Hong Kong Gallery Haaken Oslo 2016 Maerz contemporary Berlin 2015 Pekin Fine Arts,Hong Kong Gallery Haaken Oslo 2014 Jason McCoy gallery ,New York January 15 2013 Gallery Haaken,Oslo 2012 Studio Hugo Opdal/Moods of Norway Flø Gallery Haaken,Oslo 2011 maerz Contemporary.Berlin Gallery Haaken,Oslo 2010 Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen Jason McCoy Gallery New York 2009 Galleri Haaken, Oslo Galleri Haaken, Oslo 2008 Stavanger Art Society European Capital of Culture 2007 Colonnade Gallery at Sotheby’s, London Galleri Haaken, Oslo 2006 Aalesunds Art Society 2005 Henie Onstad Art Center 2003 Galleri Haaken, Oslo 2002 Galleri Haaken, Oslo 2000 Galleri Haaken, Oslo 1999 Galleri 27, Oslo 1998 Galleri 27, Oslo “Immortal”, 60 x 70cm, 2019 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 Pekin Fine art Hong Kong 2016 Studio Hugo Opdal Flø/Ulstein 2014 Transformation Serbia/Beograd-Romania/Buchuresti Rarity gallery, Greece Summer 2014 2013 Jason McCoy Gallery, New York 2011 Jason McCoy Gallery, New York 2010 Jason McCoy Gallery 2006 Galleri Haaken, Oslo 2004 Galleri Haaken, Oslo 2003 Henie Onstad Art Center 2002 Galleri Haaken, Oslo 1998 Galleri Bomuldsfabrikken, Arendal 1995 Trondheim Art Society 1994 Galleri Bomuldsfabrikken, Arendal Oslo Art Society “Unbroken”, 50 x 60cm, 2019 *Courtesy of Jason McCoy Gallery INTERVIEW TO KENNETH BLOM At Pékin Fine Arts, Hong Kong Walking into the gallery space, your personal aesthetic is particularly strong. Please, could you explain your process of creation? The process always begins with a strong composition, making up the circles and lines, and then at the end, I put in the people … it all depends on the composition. So in a way, I work abstractly when I do these things; I’m not a figurative painter when I do the process but it ends up being that. So does the imagery come from your imagination rather than reality? No, it’s a mix. I mean you walk around, you see people as you do now [points to the exhibition], but it’s a mix of fantasy and reality. I need [people] to be alive. I need them to start to walk, to fight, to kiss, to scream. In a way, it’s a real life story I’ve tried to talk about, but it’s not from [the] real. Mostly I don’t use models; I just use the idea. Your earlier works are very traditional, figurative images. Did you start by drawing and painting from life models initially? Yes. I had a straight academic education, but since I was fifteen I have always loved Danish farmer paintings … the lonely boy standing on the road—it went to me directly. And when I was studying art in Düsseldorf, it was quite another stage of art: conceptual, rough work, reduced installations. We went to this big show in Copenhagen, and I remember I just couldn’t get it, so I went back to [painting] private small rooms. So I’m a rather old fashioned painter, but I see now that painting changes all the time, and that’s why I love the medium. You say your paintings are old-fashioned; they also appear quite distant, almost dystopian. You can use painting—and this is why I think it’s so important—to give [the viewer] a little break; it stops time for just a little while. You can walk into a gallery and be quiet in front of a painting. It gives a little break from the rushing time. I love that this medium [does that]. While many other artists jump between video and installation, painting and sculpture you religiously remain a painter. What is it about the medium that appeals so much? I think it’s just like going into a friendship for a long time—it creates a special kind of friendship. You can also have friends that maybe last for two weeks, which are also interesting, but there’s something about working for a period and going really into the stuff. Now we have to be careful because you can choose to do both dancing and making art, or sound and installation, or theatre, whatever, which is right. I love to paint so I thought, well I think I’m going to paint for some years now and see what that is, and I couldn’t stop. So you lose something by doing that, but you also gain something; you’re in focus your whole life. I am trying to make the best painting and then I will quit; it won’t happen (laughs). “Symmetry”, 50 x 60cm, 2019 *Courtesy of Jason McCoy Gallery At the Luisa Catucci Gallery, we believe in the power of inspiring art and culture. Humanity’s emancipation and evolution, since the beginning of time, is reached by feeding the soul and brain with stimulating nourishment, in order to open more doors hidden in our brains, to become better beings, better societies and thus a better planet. Art is an outstanding power food. We truly value its fundamental role of instigator for reflections and feelings out of the ordinary. Based in Berlin, in the newly trend neighbourhood of Schillerkiez Neukölln, just a few meters away from the unique park of Tempelhofer Feld, Luisa Catucci Gallery, is more then just a conventional art gallery; it places itself as one of the fundamental elements of the area’s cultural turmoil. The gallery’s program focuses mainly on art exhibitions, inspired by ecological, social and existential matters, through a variety of media, including photography, video, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Beside the exhibitions, Catucci organises regularly multidimensional events, in order to bind art with talks, culture and enjoyment, supporting the vibrant spirit of the town and the area. LUISACATUCCI GALLERY Luisa Catucci Gallery | Allerstr. 38, 12049 Berlin | www.luisacatucci.com | artsy.net/luisa-catucci-gallery | facebook.com/catuccigallery | instagram.com/luisacatucci_gallery | twitter.com/catuccigallery Owner&Director: Luisa Catucci | [email protected] | +49.176.20404636.
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