PRESS RELEASE. NORSK, a Norwegian contemporary art scene

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Coinciding with the major Edvard Munch exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou until 9 January 2012 and with the publication of a selection of texts by Munch hitherto unpublished in French that he published with the Presses du Réel, Jérôme Poggi presents, in association with Emilia Stocchi of PRIMO PIANO, an exhibition devoted to the Norwegian contemporary art scene from 15 December 2011 to 4 February 2012. +

NORSK, a Norwegian contemporary art scene EDVARD MUNCH - PEDER BALKE - ANNA-EVA BERGMAN JESPER ALVÆR / ELINE MUGAAS - KNUT ÅSDAM - PER BARCLAY - A K DOLVEN - PER MANING Galerie JÉRÔME POGGI (Paris) in collaboration with PRIMO PIANO (Paris) On the occasion of the publication of a selection of texts by Edvard Munch that he has published with the Presses du Réel, Jérôme Poggi is exceptionally associating with Emilia Stocchi, PRIMO PIANO, to organize a major exhibition on the Norwegian contemporary art scene that will be presented in their two spaces in the 10th arrondissement, from 15 December 2011 to 4 February 2012. Entitled NORSK, the exhibition brings together six contemporary artists whose works will be confronted with three of the major great names in Norwegian art history. In dialogue with the titular figure EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944), whose almost abstract pastel will be presented exceptionally in the gallery, Per Maning (born 1943) will show a series of recent photographs in the Studio Room of the Galerie Jérôme Poggi. A K DOLVEN (born 1953) will show on her part for the first time in France a series of paintings on aluminum that will occupy the conservatory space of the gallery, in vis-à-vis with an exceptional painting by Anna-Eva BERGMAN (1909-1987) from the 1980s with particularly contemporary accents. The main space of the gallery will group some photographic architectural works by artists KNUT ÅSDAM (born 1968) and PER BARCLAY (born 1955). In addition to an emblematic video of his work, the young artist Jesper ALVÆR (born 1973), figure from the Czech as well as the Norwegian art scene, will take over the street front space of the temporary employment agency Interim Domino with a recent photographic and sociological work on Norwegian job applicants. Lastly, within a couple-hundred meters from the gallery, Primo Piano will make a splash by bringing together a rare painting by the romantic Norwegian painter Peder BALKE and a video installation by A K DOLVEN. The exhibition has the endorsement of the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the collaboration of Luc Bellier, Alain Jullien-Laferrière (Centre d’Art Contemporain de Tours), Gunnar Kvaran (Astrup Fearnley Museum), and of the Fondation Hans Hartung-Anna-Eva Bergman. Many thanks to the DOMINO Intérim group, exceptionally associated with this exhibition for the Jesper Alvær project.

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EDVARD MUNCH, Ecrits - Presses du réel On the occasion of the “Munch: l’Oeil Moderne” exhibition presented at the Centre Pompidou from 22 September to 9 January 2012, Presses du Réel have published a selection of texts written by Edvard Munch, edited by Jérôme Poggi and translated from Norwegian by Luce Hinsch. This 160-page illustrated volume brings together for the first time in French a selection of the most important texts by the Norwegian painter, conveying a new way of looking at his work and at his personality. Far from the caricatured clichés that make of Munch the painter of despair, disease and death, these written texts bear witness to an unexpected almost mystical fervor on behalf of the artist in which art, cosmological and scientific considerations intersect in order to attempt to understand the nature of the world and of the human soul. In addition to founding texts such as the Saint Cloud Manifesto or the poem devoted to The Scream, the collection publishes for the first time in French the Cité de l’amour libre, bouffonnade/ pleasantry in a particularly caustic style by the artist, just as the illustrated version of the artist’s artistic testament designated by the title Tree of Knowledge. This collection has the support of NORLA (Norwegian Literature and Non-Literature Abroad), the Royal Norwegian Embassy in France, the Fondation Hartung-Bergman and of Objet de production, Paris.

Edvard Munch, Ecrits, Ed. Presses du réel. Edité par Jérôme Poggi et traduit du norvégien par Luce Hinsch 160 pages, 30 illustrations couleurs, 17 x 20 cm. 16 euros.

+ LECTURES Several lectures by Jérôme Poggi will accompany the publication of the collection of texts by Edvard Munch by Presses du Réel. + Tuesday 15 November 2011 - Association Universitaire de Neuilly + Wednesday 16 November 2011 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen + Thursday 17 November 2011 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Niort + Wednesday 23 November 2011 - Maison des Centraliens, Paris + Saturday 14 January 2012 - Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

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+ ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES + JESPER ALVÆR. Born 1973 Copenhagen (D). Lives and works in Prague (CZ) and Oslo (NO). Figure of the Norwegian and Czech art scenes, where for a long time he worked as a two-person team with Isabela Grosseova, Jesper Alvær questions our social, political and cultural environment through conceptual and experimental works dealing with otherness and the encounter of representation and symbols. Recent one-man shows: Czech Center, New York, USA (2006); The Royal College of Art, London (2005)

+ KNUT ÅSDAM. Born 1968 Trondheim (NO). Lives and works in Oslo (NO). Having lived at length in England and the United States, Knut Åsdam is today one of the most internationally recognized Norwegian artists, having represented his country at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Åsdam makes films, installations and photographs that question our degree of conditioning through urban space and incite us to live in a more conscious manner. In his photographs, his principal subject is architecture that he considers to be at the “conjunction of the social, of the personal, of the paranoiac, and of the public”. Recent one-man shows: Tate Modern, London (2011); The Depo, Istanbul (2011); Kunsthalle of Bergen, Norway (2010), Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam (2007), Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris (2006), FRAC Bourgogne, (2006), Tate Britain, Glasgow (2000), Venice Biennale (1999).

+ PER BARCLAY. Born 1955 Oslo (NO). Lives and works in Turin (IT). Whether through photography or installations, the work of Per BARCLAY tackles principally questions tied to the body, to flux, to architecture and to perception. He is particularly known for his spectacular rooms of oil that he made in situ in the 1980s and of which he made impressive photographs. Recent one-man shows: Rue Visconti, Paris (2011); CCC de Tours (2008); Merz Foundation, Turin (2008); Museum of Installation, London (2000)

+ A K DOLVEN. Born 1953 Oslo (NO). Lives and works in London (UK). Recognized for her work in painting and video, A K Dolven seeks in her works to find an equilibrium between the position of mankind as much as an individual as that he exercises in society. Nevertheless situated beyond a frontal political approach, her works regularly have recourse to the Norwegian landscape of the Lofoten Islands, where one of his studios is to be found. Recent exhibitions: Centre Pompidou (2011); Folkestone Triennial, United Kingdom (2011); The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China (2011); Carlier|gebauer, Berlin (2006); Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany (2002)

+ PER MANING. Born 1943 Oslo (NO). Lives and works in Oslo (NO) As yet largely unknown in France, where however his work was presented at a recent Video evening at Centre Pompidou, Per Maning is one of the most famous Norwegian artists of his generation. His introspective works carry out a subtle parallel between animals and the place of mankind amongst them. Exclusively photographic and video, his work has already been compared to that of (Munch Museum 2006) with whom he shares a certain number of figures. Recent exhibitions: Centre Pompidou (2011); St Louis Sculpture Park, USA (2010); Munch Museum, Oslo (2006); Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, USA (2002)

+ ELINE MUGAAS. Born 1969 Oslo (NO). Lives and works in Oslo (NO) Mugaas works with photography and video mainly through portraits, interiors and cityscape’s. Her work brings forth a web of connections between different images that combine the private subjective with topographic depictions of urban environments and architecture. Oslo has been one of her main photographic subjects. sible stories and and identities. People are the central focus of her photographs, even when they are absent. Recent exhibitions: MoCAV, Novi Sad, Serbia (2010), La Otra 2010, Hotel Continental, Bogota, Colombia (2010)

+ ANNA-EVA BERGMAN. Born 1909 Stockholm (SE), died 24 July 1987 Grasse (F). The recent exhibition “Elles” of the Centre Pompidou enabled one to rediscover the astonishing modernity of the work of Anna-Eva Bergman, whose fame suffered for a long time due to that of her husband Hans Hartung. Recent exhibitions and studies that have recently been devoted to her reveal her to be one of the most important artists in the history of Norwegian art, and furthermore, one of the most unique representatives of abstract art of the latter half of the 20th century. + EDVARD MUNCH. Born 1863 Oslo (NO), died 23 January 1944 Ekely (NO) Edvard Munch is undoubtedly one of the greatest painters in Norwegian and universal art history, whose work has equally marked symbolist and expressionist painting as well as 20th century modern art, as the current exhibition presented at the Centre Pompidou demonstrates. + PEDER BALKE. Born 1804, died 1887 (NO) Romantic landscape painter close to Caspar David Friedrich’s preoccupations, Peder Balke is one of the mythical figures of 19th century Scandinavian art. The Louvre owns an exceptional series of studies that Louis Philippe had bought from the Norwegian artist in 1846.

+ IMAGES AVAILABLE FOR THE PRESS

Edvard MUNCH, Melancholia (Study of Boulders and the Seashore), circa 1896-1902, pastel on paper, 25 x 35,5 cm, private collection, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris.

Anna-Eva BERGMAN, N°25-1981 - Lake II, 1981, 200 X 250 cm, Acrylic and metal foil on canvas, Courtesy Fondation Hartung - Bergman, Antibes & Galerie Jérôme Poggi

A K DOLVEN, untitled, 2011, painting on aluminum, various dimensions. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, and Anthony Wilkinson, London.

Knut ASDAM, Blissed, 2005 - 2006 Archival C-Prints on aluminium, mounted in special profile with silk inlays, 32,5 cm x 60 cm Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris.

Per MANING, Stone No 1, 2008 archival pigment print on paper 60 x 80 cm Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris.

Edvard MUNCH, he Tree of Knowledge, T 2547-060-A43 Munch Museet, Oslo

Per BARCLAY, 46 Quai le Gallo, Boulogne-Billancourt Fine art photographic print 150x105 cm Courtesy Rue Visconti & Galerie Jérôme Poggi

Peder BALKE, Sans titre Oil on canva, 31 cm x 37 cm Private collection, Londres Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

+ GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI ET OBJET DE PRODUCTION Active in the art market since 2007, GALERIE POGGI & BERTOUX ASSOCIÉS is a Franco-Belgian company founded by the critic and art historian Jérôme Poggi and his associate Peter Bertoux. Installed near the Gare du Nord since 2009, the gallery shares its space in the back of the courtyard with OBJET DE PRODUCTION, an associative organization created in 2004 to display and promote all forms of contemporary art in society, particularly through specific commissions. Convinced that the profound changes experienced by the art world require new tools of production, diffusion and reflection, GALERIE POGGI & BERTOUX ASSOCIÉS and OBJET DE PRODUCTION have teamed together to create a new hybrid means of action, both commercial and political, critical and pedagogical. Doing so at all levels of the artistic and cultural process, the joint action of both structures allows both public and private investment. Exhibition space, production agency, along with place of study and debate, the gallery hopes to take advantage of its cosmopolitan location at the gateway to Northern Europe. The gallery hopes to develop a privileged relationship with the public, and to reflect on the meaning as well as the functioning of a gallery in the early twenty-first century. With a total area of 200m2, the gallery is built between a ground floor and a larger space on the lower level lit by a large overhead window; that is extended with a Studio room with a library specializing in art history, a video screening room and various technical areas including a cutting and production room and a residential studio. The gallery represents French and foreign artists of several generations including Kees VISSER, Sophie RISTELHUEBER, Bertrand LAMARCHE, Cédrick EYMENIER, Dominique FURGÉ, Philippe CAURANT, Isabelle ARTHUIS, Christian LEBRAT, and Hélène D’HERVÉ; it occasionally collaborates with Cécile BART, Pieter VERMEERSCH, Marylène NEGRO, etc. OBJET DE PRODUCTION is currently developing commissioned projects with Mathieu LEHANNEUR, Jean-Marc BUSTAMANTE, Attila CSÖRGÖ, Vittorio SANTORO, etc.

+ GALERIE PRIMO PIANO Launched by Emilia Stocchi in 2010, Primo Piano aims to promote contemporary creation by organizing exhibitions, publishing leaflets and limited editions, and by providing communication consulting in media relations and PR.

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UPCOMING - GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI 26th November 2011 > 29th November 2011 DANIEL LARRIEU - ICEDREAM 15th December 2011 > 4th February 2012 «NORSK » - Group Show Edvard MUNCH, Peder BALKE, Anna-Eva BERGMAN, A K DOLVEN, Per MANING, Per BARCLAY, Knut ASDAM, J­ esper ­ALVAER With the support of the Royal Embassy of Norway and in collaboration with PRIMO PIANO, Paris

15th February 2012 > 31st March 2012 Julien CRÉPIEUX April 2012> May 2012 Georges Tony STOLL

+ OBJET DE PRODUCTION - CURRENT COMMISSIONS Jean-Marc-BUSTAMANTE Attila CSÖRGÖ Mathieu LEHANNEUR Vittorio SANTORO

+ UPCOMING - GALLERIES / GARE DU NORD, PARIS ROSASCAPE 9th December 2011 > 3rd February 2012 KATINKA BOCK

L’ESPACE D’EN BAS 15th December 2011 > 27th January 2012 ELENA VILLOVITCH / DAVID TV / DEMETRA NIKOLOPOULOU