From Galleri MGM in Oslo —
Josefine Lyche "Why do we remember the past, but not the future?" "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever." Galleri MGM is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Josefine Lyche (b.1973). Lyche presents a body of work consisting of sculptures and a wall painting, as well as a series of new paperwork, all using geometrical abstractions and light as a medium. Her work dissolves boundaries between fiction and documentation, depicting how fantasies and dreams collide with and yet help determine the shape of reality. Theme and variations is a term most commonly used in the music genre as a musical form in which the fundamental musical idea, or theme, is repeated in altered form or accompanied in a different manner. The exhibition explores geometric shapes and solids and revisits work of artists like Robert Morris and Ellsworth Kelly, giving it a disco treatment of glitter, neon and gloss. The mathematical, science-fiction and new age references incorporated in the works comments on the ambivalent foretelling of utopian hope and dystopian vision of a near, yet unknown future. The transmission between past and future is shown in the sculpture "The Omega Point" a portal that leads in or out of time and space. … |
A connection to today's earlier post, Sunday School— The Oslo Version, from Friday, May 21, 2010.
Lyche's "Omega Point" portal, together with her last name, suggested three posts from the following Saturday morning— which later proved to be the date of Martin Gardner's death—
Art Space, Through the Lyche Gate and The Lyche Gate Asterisk.
For some further religious remarks, see November 9th, 2010— A Theory of Pure Design.