| EXHIBTION HALL |
PATRICK HUSE
Fallow Land
Painting and prints
21.05 - 21.08.2022
Curated by Malin Barth
Fallow Land
Patrick Huse
"WITHOUT A STRONG CLIPS OF FICTION, REALITY IS UNBEARABLE.
In competition with nature analogously, with its growth laws, the painter creates his works according to his own laws as another nature, fills what has been seen and experienced with their own performances and experiences, and deepens his insights to an independent worldview, to an independent interpretation of the world which also includes and make visible the not visible, the reality that lies in and behind the things."
Quote:: Hans Albert Peters, Art historian, former director of Baden Baden Kunsthalle and Düsseldorf Art Museum - RIFT 1998, p77.
Fallow land is a piece of land that is left to recover its required fertility .
Or metaphorically speaking:
Is it an attitude, a place, an utopian dream or a social topic? Is it a borderline between reality and abstraction? Can it be an artistic quest for affiliation? May be it has nothing to do with landscape at all, merely about surviving in a «Fallow land» in the sense of creating a room for a personal and individual expression or development?
Complexity of culture is represented in a physical, mentally and social landscapes.
Landscape and culture is not a homogeneous relationship and there is no unambiguously definition of landscape. Both landscape and culture have large internal differences where understanding is individually dependent. History, memory and meaning will always be embodied both in landscape and culture.
The landscape itself, both the cultivated and the uncultivated, are all the time constantly changing together with our own inherent experience and understanding. In relationship to human life course the landscape mainly appears as seemingly stable forms. The reality is that the landscape is in an endless change and aging process.
- Patrick Huse
"Nature as Construction
Patrick Huse’s projects raises many basically simple questions, among them what, precisely nature Is; how the term is used in a variety of contexts; and how it relates to «landscape». Strictly speaking, natura means birth, and the Romans used it with regard to all that came into being of itself, as against everything that was the result of human intervention; natura, non manu. Thus nature was looked upon as the raw material of reality, or it could stand for that which was extraneous to human kind, beyond the limits of the human spirit and, above all, of what man created. Consequently nature also became the antithesis of civilisation or culture, basically neaning something cultivated. Nature, then, denoted untreated, unelaborated raw material, and thus, too, the opposite of civilisation.
From this follow differing views on the relationship between nature and art. The classical perception was that the role of art was a dual one, in that it partly imitated nature and partly rose above it -to some kind of spiritual height or form of freedom. We recall immanuel Kant’s classical ideal of equilibrium, «We admire art when it shows us nature, and nature when it shows us art». It is not without reason that Kant is also remembered for his rigorous philosophy of ethics, and if we consider the concept «Nature and Morality», we find that in questions concerning the latter - wether the subject is the legal system or personal conduct - there is a tendency for nature to signify the opposite of morality, and thus something one should preferably overcome. Consequently, an ethic is often seen as someting coersive, something suggesting external pressure in the form of commands and interdictions, wether the moral code stems from a god or from a human authority."
Quote: Gunnar Sørensen, Art historian, former director Munchmuseet, Norway.
Patrick Huse (b.1948) is a Norwegian painter and multimedia artist. After his debut at the National Art Exhibition in 1970 Patrick Huse studied landscape art and conceptualism during the late 1970s and early 1980s. His works incorporate techniques as painting, drawing, photograph, video, wall based text material and objects. His work is described by Matthew Kangas Seattle’s leading critic for thirty years, interprets Patrick Huse’s art in the light of this narrative when he gave a great deal of praise in the Seattle Times about “Rift” in the Frye Art Museum, 2000: “Dark, cloudy and moody, Huse’s pictures are part of a long, gloomy tradition of northern European landscape tradition. In the early 1990s he started a project titled Rethinking Landscape, a trilogy consisting of the three parts: 1 Nordic Landscape, 2 RIFT and 3 Penetration. The traditional landscape art still plays a role as an artistic reference, but through a series of exhibitions from the mid 1990s and later, he has challenged landscape art in a way which makes his project unique. For many years through his interest for indigenous people and tradition in the Arctic Patrick Huse extensively travelled the north and his work in a period of twelve years resulted in an approach to art through a crossover between art and anthropology. This was concluded in a trilogy called Northern Imaginary which was under production for nine years.
Patrick Huse has worked extensively with larger pedagogical museum art projects connected to Northern issues for many years. Produced books connected to the different projects. Social research in Arctic Canada, Greenland, Iceland and the Nordic countries and cooperated with a large number of academics from several universities. The books are used as text books in academic courses in universities and university colleges. In his entire body of work, Patrick Huse argues the use of elements taken from nature, structures in nature and culture becomes an invitation to associate with working on the relationship – center and periphery, one of the most repeated topics for structuring the geographical relationship.
| VAULT |
PATRICK HUSE Visuals
ØYSTEIN SKAR Sound
Video I: Revisiting Nature; Fragments of Time
PATRICK HUSE Visuals
Video II: Perpetual Motion
21.05 - 21.08.2022
(Image: Impentum of* Epirrita autumnata)
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Opening Saturday May 21st, door opens 12:00
14:00 - Exhibiting artist Patrick Huse will be in conversation with Øyvind Storm Bjerke og Åsmund Thorkildsen. The language of the landscape as a nature in itself will be starting point of the conversation.
Øyvind Storm Bjerke is a professor of art history at UIO, art critic in Klassekampen, long-time lecturer, author, researcher in the field. He was museum director at the Norwegian Museum of Photography - Preus Photo Museum in Horten in 1997–2002, associate professor at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in 1989–1997, curator of Trondhjem Art Association/Trøndelag Art Gallery in 1984–1989.
Åsmund Thorkildsen is a Norwegian museum director, curator and writer. He was intendant at Kunstnernes Hus in 1988–1999. He was director of the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in 1999–2001. He became director of the Drammen Museum of Art and Culture in 2001.
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LIST OF WORKS:
• Assumptive Location, 2021/2022
Photograph, 125 x 170 cm
Edition 5 pcs
• Land Structure, 2020/2021
Oil on canvas, 160 x 180 cm
• Ideal Destination, 2020
Oil on canvas, 180 x 190 cm
• Circular Premises, 2020
Oil on canvas, 180 x180 cm
• Increasing Violence I, 2020/2022
Wood cut, 140 x 140 cm
Edition 5 pcs
• Increasing Violence II, 2021
Wood cut, 70 x 70 cm
• Increasing Violence V, 2021
Wood object (7c)
• Increasing Violence III, 2021 Printing plate; wood cut (7a)
• Increasing Violence IV, 2021
Printing plate; wood cut (7b)
• Light in Grey IV, 2020/2022
Oil on canvas, 210 x 15 cm
• Light in Grey III, 2020/2022
Oil on canvas, 190 x 160 cm
• Light in Grey II, 2020/2022
Oil on canvas, 240 x 180 cm
• Light in Grey I, 2020/2022
Oil on canvas, 250 x 185 cm
• Light in Grey V, 2020/2022
Oil on canvas, 36 x 31 cm
• Perspective Displacement; Arctic View, (Light in Grey Series VI), 2020/2022
Oil on canvas/ photo print, 50 x 200 cm
• Botanical Landscape Series I, 2022
Oil on canvas, 130 x 145 cm
• Lichen; Notion series VI, 2022
Oil on canvas, 44 x 49 cm
• Lichen; Notion series III, 2022
Oil on canvas, 44x49 cm
• (Video I) Revisiting Nature; Fragments of Time
PATRICK HUSE, Visual
ØYSTEIN SKAR, Sound
(Video II) Perpetual Motion
PATRICK HUSE, Visual
• Louise Flaherty, Nunavut. Inuk Female’s Recollection of Land Use, 2014/2022
Photograph/text, 130 x 90 cm
• Literary; Riples, 2019
Wood cut, 80 x 90 cm
• Light in Grey, 2021/2022
Wood cut, 140 x 70 cm
Edition 5 pcs
• Social Processes, 2019/2021
Photograph, drawing and text, 140 x 140 cm
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List of representation art works and artists books
Patrick Huse,10.05.22
Norway
Nasjonalmuseet for kunst: 6 artworks
Lillehammer kunstmuseum: 24 artworks
Stavanger kunstmuseum; 1 artwork
Preus museum: 105 artworks
Drammen museum: 6 artworks
Norsk Kulturråd: 1 artwork
Koro: 1 artwork
Henie Onstad kunstmuseum: 1 artwork
Finland
Rovaniemi Art Museum: 1 artwork
Pori Art Museum: 5 artworks
Iceland
Hafnarborg Museum / Institute for Culture and Fine Art: 10 artworks
Rekjavik Art Museum: 4 artworks
England
The British Museum: 2 artworks
A total of 165 artworks purchased from various art museums.
Municipal, county and private collections are not included in this list.
Library list:
Patrick Huse, artists books and pedagogical material represented in following public institutions and libraries.
Norway
National Museum of Art, Library
RidduDuottarMuseat / Sámi Collection Karasjok
Tromsø University Library
Lillehammer Art Museum Library
Preus museum
Arctic Council / Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nordic Council Delegation
Nord-Fron Commune library
Bergen Art Museum Library
University of Stavanger Library
Finnmark University College Library
Sámi allakuvla / Sámi University College Library
Bodø University College Library
National Library
Drammen Museum Library
Henie Onstad Art Center Library
Stenersen Museum Library
Australia
National Gallery of Australia Research Library
Canada
Uqam, University of Québec Library
University of Laval Library
Canadian Museum of History Library
National Gallery of Canada Library
Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum Library
Canadian Museum of Civilization Library
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Library
Centre de services partagés Québec, Catalogue Cubiq
Canadian Centre for Architecture
University of Toronto Fine Art Library
Canadian Centre for Architecture / CCA
The Czech Republic
University of Masaryk Library
The Moravian Art Gallery Collection
Denmark
The Royal Library Copenhagen
DanBibDk / Bibliotek .dk
Nikolaj Kunsthall
Danish Union Catalogue and Danish National Bibliography
England
Tate Library and Archive
University of Cambridge Library
The British Libray, St.Pancras
Finland
Kemi Art Museum Library
Rovaniemi Art Museum Library
Rovaniemi Provincial Museum, Arktikum
Pori Art Museum Library
France
Bibliothèque interuniversitaire Sainte-Geneviève
Bibliothèque du Centre Pompidou
La bibliothèque Kandinsky
BnF, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Germany
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
Kunst -und Museumsbibliothek der Stadt Köln
Universitätsbibliothek Paderborn
Greenland
Ammassalik (Tasilaq) Museum
Qaqortoq Museum
Iceland
Reykjavik Art Museum Library
Háskóli Islands Félagsvisinda
Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art Library
University of Iceland Library
Bókasafn Hafnarfjardar
Stefansson Arctic Institute
Luxemburg
Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxemburg
The Netherlands
Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde Leiden
Russia
The State Museum Association «Art Culture of the Russian North (Arkhangelsk)
Murmansk Art Museum Library
Sweden
Prince Eugen Waldemarsudde Library
Fotografbiblioteket Moderna Museet
Dorothea Library
University of Stockholm Library
The Swedish Institute of Social Research
University of Lund Library
Millesgården Library
Kongl. Konsthøgskolan, Architect Department Library
Libris Consortium
Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich Library
Médiathèque Valais MV-Martigny
USA
Smithsonian Institutions Library
Nordic Heritage Museum Library
Instaar, University of Colorado
New York University, Elmer Holms Bobst Library
Sterling and Francien Clark Institute Library
Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives
New School Libraries and Archives
Walker Art Centre Library
Art Institute of Chicago Library
Ingalls Library
San Francisco Museum of Art Library
Library Congress Washington
University of Iowa Libraries
Museum of Modern (MOMA) Library
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Library
According to WorldCat Identities, Patrick Huse´s books are represented with:
Works:
32 works in 65 publications, in 5 languages, and 161 library holdings
Genres:
Exhibition catalogs Exhibition, pictorial works Catalogs Art Criticism, interpretation, etc Pictorial works Interviews
Roles:
Author, Editor, Artist, Illustrator, Photographer, Other, Contributor
Classifications:
ND773.H87, 759.81