Audun Alvestad: Priority Lane
Past viewing_room
Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Priority Lane, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2022); Tan Lines, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Here comes a regular, QB Gallery, Oslo, Norway (2021); Inadequate, Just Inadequate, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2020); Høyte Hårveste, QB Gallery, Oslo, Norway (2019); It’s my Party and I'll Cry If I Want to, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2019); Alnes fyr, Norway, July (2018); Gallery BOA, Oslo, Norway (2018); Varme Hender, Kalde Fotter, Trondelag Senter for Samtidskunt, Trondheim, Norway (2017) and Klamme Hender, Varme Fotter, Gallery Christinegaard, Bergen, Norway (2017); Lubinas & Dorados, Gallery Bokboden, Bergen, Norway (2016); The Holy guacamole and the girl twith the pear necklace, Gallery LNM, Oslo, Norway (2015); Holy guacamole, Gallery Fisk, Bergen, Norway (2015); Duene faller som fluer, Gallery Blunk, Trondheim, Norway (2014).
Group exhibitions include Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020); The Easter Group Show, Galleri Thomassen, Gøteborg, Sweden (2019) and SPF 32, William Ulmer Brewery, Brooklyn (2019); as well as Specially Normal, with Christina Banban, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2018); Group show at QB gallery, Oslo (2018); We are the ones..., Carlsberg gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2017), The Summer Island Show, Gallery Kant, Denmark (2017) and Hostutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (2017). He was recently awarded a three-year working grant for young artists by the Arts Council of Norway (2017) and Statens utstillingsstipend, Arts Council Norway (2016), Prosjektstøtte, Arts Council Norway (2016).
Highlights and collections. In 2017 Audun Alvestad received a 3-year working grant for young artist from the Arts Council Norway, Prosjektstøtte, Norwegian association of Artists. In addition, in 2016 Audun Alvestad was granted Statens utstillingsstipend, from the Arts Council Norway, Prosjektstøtte.
This is, in part, what inspired Alvestad to create a triptych for this latest exhibition. Split across three vertical panels, the painting encapsulates the microcosm of a theme park: the pale pink tracks of the rollercoaster run in endless loops against a picture-perfect blue sky. Yet, it’s unclear how we are to interpret this scene: is it a dream of never-ending bliss, or a vision of creeping entrapment? As with all of his paintings, Alvestad deliberately leaves the narrative open-ended so that each time we return to the work, we are able to see it afresh.
It is this sense of renewal that sets the works apart from endless scroll of digital images. As we examine the scenes more closely, the familiarity of the image comes apart: we become aware of the artifice, of the artist’s hand, of the ways in which the gaze is led. The smooth surface of water is broken down into rough brushstrokes while the spray at the end of a slide is created through flicks of white paint. These are the points at which the work comes alive, where we are able to see beyond our expectations of what an image is or should be and to discover each painting on its own terms.
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