B-open 2016, CROIX URBAINES re-contextualized
Hold ON!
Exhibition view from my studio in cs55 at B-open 2016
Content:
Hold on!- edited new paper photo, print 2016
Ambulance, book by Johan Harstad 2002
Hold ut!, article in Morgenbladet by Nils-Øyvind Haagensen 24.07.2009
Work for the …a Better Future, video work 2014
Prioritaire, inflatable pillow with red cross 1998
Wooden cross covered with fluorescent PCV fabric, silkscreen text, 30x30x2cm 1998 Croix Urbaines, exhibitions 1998 -2000
CROIX URBAINES text by LARS VILKS 1998Bjørg Tarangers project Croix Urbaines is a work that concentrates on a social function in the city environment.The cross symbol, which is a recognisable mark of the work, alludes to the cross signal as a positive communicator, a willingness to help and meet. One of the big discussions in today's art world is the position and roll of public art. A long tradition concerning the erection of concrete and in principle immovable monuments has been replaced with the tendency to use the public room as an exhibition space.Public art transforms the stable to the random, from monumental to communicative, from slow to intense. It is within this context that the project Croix Urbaines is to be seen. Bjørg Taranger when placing her objects and posters changes the city environment into an installation of a project.The projects meaning can be found through questions surrounding the kind of room/city environment and as to how people will communicate with it.The viewers curiosity when confronted with these cryptically messages and signs is easily triggered, the whole point is in that this energy is the actual possibility; it is up to the viewer to put meaning into the signal that is sent out:Stations for the seeking, a help that is not necessary, but could at the same time be important.Content of project 1998: POSTCARD 10x14cm. T-SHIRTS with silkscreen fluorescent cross/text. REMINDERS fluorescent cross stickers 3x3cm. VERONICA, napkin box with fluorescent printed cross on napkins 12x12cm. PRIORITAIRE, inflated rubber pillow (found object) 210x160x100 cm, painted with fluorescent cross and text. CROIX URBAINES, fluorescent painted cross with text on window/wall, 180x180cm. CROIX URBAINES, wooden cross covered with fluorescent PCV fabric, silkscreen text, 30x30x2cm. PROTOTYPE silicon cross 6x6cm. Slikscreen posters 65x50cm.
Exhibitions:
2016 B-open, open artist studio, Bergen
2000 URBANE KORS, own billboard project at Danmarksplass in Bergen, sponsored by
Moore Group AS, simultaneously with windows exhibition and release party at Cyper
House Internettcafe in the city center.
1998 Urban Crosses, Human Rights Festival, The London Institute Gallery London UK
1998 Høstutstillingen, Oslo
1998 Institution, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo
1998 Institution, Bergen kunstforening & Apotekergården, Bergen
1998 Shopping Around, Kløverhuset Shoppingsenter, Bergen
1998 The International Student Print Exhibition, Falmouth UK
1998 Shopping Around, Kløverhuset Shoppingsenter, Bergen