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M A G N E F U R U H O L M E N CURATED BY CATHRINE EDWARDS M A G N E F U R U H O L M E N CURATED BY CATHRINE EDWARDS MAGNE FURUHOLMEN Furuholmen’s work is represented in “The goal was to create a park that can institutions and collections in his native be experienced in diferent ways at Norway and worldwide including London, diferent times of the year, with water in New York and Miami . the summer and dampness in winter as an atmospheric elements adding to changing Among his permanent public commissions lighting conditions.” says Furuholmen of the is ‘Resonance’ for The city of Bergen. Henie commission. Onstad Kunstsenter, Kunstgalleriet, Gallery Trafo, Norwegian Graphics Union and The The ‘imprints’ sculptural works form the Nobel Peace Center have all exhibited his basis for this limited edition collaboration work in Norway. with Urban Fabric Rugs curated by Cathrine Edwards. Three scultpures from the Furuholmen’s work with glass, paint, collection have been translated into four etching and woodcuts have been color compositions for this limited edition exhibited internationally at the Museum series of ten rugs each. Of Contemporary Glass Art and Gallery Christian Dam in Copenhagen; The London Art Fair and Paul Stolper Gallery in London along with Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh. Recently, Furuholmen has completed his largest commission to date for the Fornebuporten Ceramic Sculpture Park entitled “Imprints” consisting of 40 individual works, all executed in fired feldspath earthenware. URBAN FABRIC RUGS Urban Fabric Rugs are based on scale Urban Fabric place its bets on diference, maps extruded and meticulously cut out of clinging to the notion of uniqueness of place hand-tufted or hand-knotted New Zealand in the vein of Camillo Sitte’s City Planning virgin wool. They are soft city models, as According to Artistic Principles. Inspired instructive to touch as to view. There is a by the unique patterns of cities, traditions seriousness to the work—the city plans are of rug manufacture and representation the very accurate—and, at the same time, an work links urbanism, architecture, textile element of fun in their fuzzy tactility. design, and scale. Conceived of by Lukasz Kos and Andrei Mark Morris, Zerebecky, Urban Fabric can be read as a Associate Professor & Director of Exhibitions counterpoint to Rem Koolhaas’s generic Cornell University, New York. city critique. The project examines cities not as a ground level experience of bland airports and shopping centers, but from a Google maps vantage point which reveals that city cores remain diferentiated from one another in terms of history, urban design, and the constraints of geography. Like these places, no two rugs even of the same city are alike—each is tailored to the individual commission. THE MAGNE FURUHOLMEN COLLECTION FOR URBAN FABRIC RUGS Magne Furuholmen’s “Imprint” pieces for Furuholmen gives his sculptures a the Furnebuporten Sculpture Park in Oslo, permanent sense of controlled disorder by were a natural point of departure for this beating wood slat impressions into the clay collaborative project with Urban Fabric while leaving seemingly random imprints Rugs. This limited edition collection of of his tools and even his hands in the work. hand-knotted and hand-carved wool and The results are palimpsest-like sculptures silk “Imprint” area rugs is an attempt at with figural qualities not unlike that of an merging the worlds of sculpture and textile imagined cities. through the common language of figure- ground representation. What results is a Similarly, Urban Fabric Rugs take flat city translation of the traditionally hard media of figure-ground diagrams and conveys them ceramics into the luxuriously soft sculptural in extruded urban reliefs in soft hand- reliefs in wool and silk. knotted and hand-carved wool and silk. Each Urban Fabric Rug attempts to illustrate Both Furuholmen and UFR challenge the the uniqueness the city depicted. The oval traditionally flat representation of text and Manhattan Rug for example illustrates maps in their respected media – Magne the collision of the 1811 Commissioners with his stamped ceramic poetry and Urban Plan, known as the gridiron, with Lower Fabric Rugs with their three dimensional Manhattan known for its pre-republican urban reliefs in wool and silk. chaos and disorder. The city block figures tell the story of the history of the place as Magne penetrates the flat surface of printed well as its making. words and projects them into a three dimensional relief. The work is visceral and Furuholmen and Urban Fabric Rugs dynamic as a result of each individual letter welcome you to touch these highly textured being set by Furuholmen’s own hands. A pieces of decorative art. playful composition of jumbled, slightly irregular letters moving across glazed Cathrine Edwards, ceramic surfaces emerges. Additionally, Design Curator - Oslo, Norway AMBITION MEMORY MAROON 3.0m diameter 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS AMBITION MENTHE BLUE 3.0m diameter 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS AMBITION NAVY BLUE 3.0m diameter 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS AMBITION SLATE GREY 3.0m diameter 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS LEARN TO LOVE DOUBT MEMORY MAROON 3.0m x 4.0m 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS LEARN TO LOVE DOUBT MENTHE BLUE 3.0m x 4.0m 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS LEARN TO LOVE DOUBT NAVY BLUE 3.0m x 4.0m 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS LEARN TO LOVE DOUBT SLATE GREY 3.0m x 4.0m 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS BEFORE THE KNIFE MEMORY MAROON 2.0m x 3.0m 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS BEFORE THE KNIFE MENTHE BLUE 2.0m x 3.0m 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS BEFORE THE KNIFE NAVY BLUE 2.0m x 3.0m 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS BEFORE THE KNIFE SLATE GREY 2.0m x 3.0m 100% Wool & Pure Silk Blend LIMITED EDITION OF 10 RUGS MAGNE FURUHOLMEN SELECTED SOLO SHOWS: SELECTED GROUP SHOWS CONTIUED: 2016 Texture (with HM Queen Sonja), Bergen 1998 La Salle, The Art Academy, Singapore Marginalia, Norwegian Printmakers Association Norwegian Images 10 Yrs, Oslo City Hall, Norway 2015 Peeling a Glass Onion, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh To Art Be Thou Burnt, The Ceramics Museum, Midelfart, Denmark 2014 Self Portraits, Kunstverket, Oslo 1997 2nd Biennale of Book Art, Martin, The Slovak Republic 2013 Norwegian Wood, Paul Stolper Gallery, London UK Excudit, Vikingsberg Konstmuseum, Sweden 2012 Bouquet, Gallery Trafo, Norway Saga, Paris, France Retrospective, Blaafarveverket, Norway Norwegian Images, Oslo City Hall, Norway 2011 Echo, Stolper + Friends, Oslo Prizewinners, Gallery Azur, Oslo, Norway 2009 Alpha Beta, Paul Stolper, London, UK 1996 State Exhibition Oslo, Norway Camera, Gallery Trafo, Norway 3,14, Banská Bystrica State Gallery, Slovakia 2008 Anticlimax, Studio Hugo Opdahl, Norway 1995 Norwegian Images Oslo City Hall, Norway Climax, The Nobel Peace Center, Norway 1994 Art For Freedom, The Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway Paintings & monotypes, The Norwegian Forest Museum 2007 Scrabble, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway Monologues, Paul Stolper, London, UK WORKS REPRESENTED: 2006 Building Ruins, The Norwegian Graphics Union, Oslo Morceaux Choisis, Timothy Everest, London, UK The Norwegian State Archives 2004 Payne’s Gray, Edinburgh Fine Printmakers, UK The Norwegian Culture Council Payne’s Gray, Paul Stolper, London, UK Kistefos Museum, Norway Payne’s Gray, The Henie Onstad Art Center, Norway City of Bergen, Norway 2003 Foci, Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway The Queen Sonja Collection Foci, Museum of Contemporary Glass Art, Denmark Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Resonance, Christian Dam, Copenhagen, Denmark The College of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China 2001 Pincette, Galleri Kunstverket, Norway Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway 1999 New Works, Norwegian Graphics Union, Norway Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway 1998 Y Project, The Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum,Beijing Statsbygg, Berlin, Germany 1997 In Concert, Galleri Brandstrup, Norway Museum of Contemporary Glass Art, Copenhagen Blue Note Boulevards, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway The collection of Frank and Lorna Dunphy 1996 Y Project, City Hall, Hong Kong The collection of Mr. Jan Petter Collier 1995 Kutt / Cuts, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway The collection of Dr. Ted Vassiliev Grafikens Hus, Sweden SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: Skjerven Group, Berlin Formuesforvaltning, Oslo 2016 The Art of Storytelling, MAC Niteroi, Brazil Tjuvholmen KS, Oslo 2015 Five Centuries of Woodcuts, The National Museum of Norway London Contemporary Art Modern. Contemporary., Abu Dhabi Print Fair Warren Wicklund, Oslo Norway QSPA Exhibition, Scandianavia House, New York First Securities, Oslo Norway 2014 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK The Warner Building, Berlin, Germany Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, UK RCCL 2013 The IFPDA Print fair, New York Worldview International Foundation 2011 Under Stor Press, Dunkers, Helsingborg Johan Jørgen Holst Memorial Park, Palestine 2010 New York Art Fair, The Armory, New York Statoil Hydro, Norway The Term “Reality”, Paul Stolper, London, UK Saga Petroleum, Norway 2009 Coriander Plus, UK (curated By Sir Peter Blake) Shell Norway Pairs, Paul Stolper, London, UK Ernst & Young, Norway Blake/Furuholmen/Kørner, Galleri Trafo, Asker, Norway Accenture, Norway 2008 Eab Fair, New York, USA Haavind, Norway Print Basel, Switzerland Oslo Municipal