KATRINE GIÆVER – WRAPPING YELLOW, BLUE AND BLACK
2024-04-01In her last exhibition with the gallery, Collecting Colors – Catch and Release in 2021, the ancient technique of mixing pigments in beeswax, poured on birch and poplar panels, was the main theme. These works are developed further in Wrapping Yellow, Blue and Black, with a new series of medium sized and large panels dense with saturated color and intricate organic shapes, as well as wispy tinted ponds of transparent epoxy floating on poplar veneer.
This exhbition introduces three new installations made from sizeable swaths of cotton canvas, which have been dyed, stained, scrubbed, scratched and crumpled. In the gallery space these works will find their temporary resting place and shape hanging from the ceiling and sprawling on the floor or stretched as a floating membrane in the room or bursting out of a wall. These fallen and molested drapes in spice-infuced orange, brigth blues and smoldering reds and blacks, add a surprising baroque note to the ensemble, and evoce a sense of impending collapse in the exhibition space.
Opposite – CC #3, 2023-2024
Exhibition runs through to May 18th, 2024
Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway
