Ellen Ringstad. Monochromes, black. 2010. Paper collage on MDF. Each 30×30 cm.
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White III (2011)
Ellen Ringstad. White III (2011), ‘mon-uh-lawg’ installation view.
Information Overload II (2011)
Information Overload II (2011). paper, acrylic. Size: 50x50x50cm.(Will be shown at the National Art Gallery Sofia in May.)
Paper sculpture made for the 2011 Sofia International Paper Art Biennial in Bulgaria. The sculpture will be on show at the National Art Gallery Sofia from May 5th, 2011.
Black (2011)
Ouroboros - Installation view - Black (2011). Leftover plastic taken from the exhibition at Hordaland Kunstsenter Leila by AiPotu, appropriated for the exhibition Ouroboros by Ellen Ringstad.
Ellen Ringstad - Black (2011), detail.
Static I-III (2011)
Ellen Ringstad - Static I-III (2011). Found ballpoint pens on left-over passepartout-cardboard. Installation view from the exhibition Ouroboros.
Ellen Ringstad - Static I-III (2011). Found ballpoint pens on left-over passepartout-cardboard.
Yellow (2011)
Ellen Ringstad. Yellow (2011). Installation view. Site-specific installation: Yellow plastic bags filled with shredded paper. Premiss, Bergen.
Ellen Ringstad. Yellow (2011). Detail. Site-specific installation: Yellow plastic bags filled with shredded paper. Premiss, Bergen.
Ellen Ringstad. Yellow (2011). Detail. Site-specific installation: Yellow plastic bags filled with shredded paper. Premiss, Bergen.
Site-specific installation for the exhibition Catch a Cold Open at Premiss, located in a condemned building, 22.01.2011, in Bergen, Norway. See more pictures from the opening here.
Catch a Cold Open (22.01.2011)
Catch a cold Open @ Premiss, 22.01.2011
PRESS RELEASE
Opening dinner @ PREMISS (just below TAG TEAM studios. MAP)
Saturday 22.01.11 @ 20.00h
Free food, free art
works by Rasmus Hungnes, Ellen Ringstad, Eric Alvin Wangel
Warming up for this season’s cool series of hot exhibitions, Premiss sets the premises and opens their premises by inviting to COLD OPEN: an opening dinner with contemporary art as a side dish.
You remember MacGyver, right? Right right? Right right right? The show always started off with a COLD OPEN: the exciting few minutes before the catchy tunes during the vignette hit in, setting the premises for the unveiling of the further next to intolerable excitement of the continued episode, spreading out in time and realm of perception, like a blossoming flower in the spring sun, flowering, its colourful petals reaching for our celestial star. Now, this opening dinner will be similar to this meta-into: Like MacGyver sez: (bad russian accent) I am political, but I also drink… blood… Who do you think would win, MacGyver or Jack Bauer? Creative non-violence or idealistically motivated torture?
24 will not be shown, but Ellen Ringstad, Eric Alvin Wangel and Rasmus Andreas Hungnes will show new work: there will be, if nothing else, a clean, aesthetic site specific installation in trashy surroundings by Ringstad, a stunning as usual video piece by Wangel; Hungnes will deliver the longest Waste line (you know, the dynamic art piece, which can be made at any time of the day, anywhere, by anyone, at any size, by anybody, by everybody and each and every one) yet materialized in the name of art.
White I/II (2010)
Ellen Ringstad - White I/White II (Installation view). Glass Showcase and shredded paper. Approx 200x50x40cm.
Ellen Ringstad - White I, detail. (2010). Glass Showcase and shredded paper. Approx 200x50x40cm.
Sculpture made for the exhibition: In Exhibition Space No One Can Hear You Scream (2010). Press here for text (in norwegian only).
Untitled (2010)
Ellen Ringstad. Untitled (2010), installation view. Assemblage of various materials. Ca. 300x30x30cm.
Ellen Ringstad. Untitled (2010), detail. Assemblage of various materials. Ca. 300x30x30cm.
Calduia Scihfefr (2010)
Ellen Ringstad. Calduia Scihfefr (2010). Collage. 20x25cm.
Information Overload I (2008)
Ellen Ringstad. Information Overload I (1999-2008). Paper from glossy magazines, Acrylic. 35x35x35cm.
In today’s world we are overloaded with aesthetic information, making it increasingly difficult to decipher the clutter. Information Overload I is a sculptural collage, composed of thousands of paper spikes cut out from magazines, hand-rolled by the artist, and glued onto what was once a plastic world globe. It is attached to the ceiling by a thin thread, making it turn around its own axis; the speed is induced by movements in the air created by passers-by. The viewer’s eyes are seduced by a wonderful colour play, but as they zoom in on the surface, they cannot rest – as if bombarded with splinters of information, causing dizziness and unease. Spikes are often found in the natural world and serves as an aggression/ defence mechanism, so when standing in front of the sculpture, one has the contradictory feeling of being both visually/tactically attracted to and instinctively threatened by it.
Ellen Ringstad. Information Overload I, detail (1999-2008). Paper from glossy magazines, Acrylic. 35x35x35cm.
Eram, Sum, Ero
Hi, I should use this first post to introduce myself. My name is Ellen Ringstad, I am 50/50 Portuguese/Norwegian, and for the time being a student of Fine Arts at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts. The last three decades I’ve been a curious student of many subjects, although it is within the realm of Art I feel most at home.
Humans have a tendency to categorize information in order to make it more understandable, but no category can fully describe a person. As an artist, and especially as an art student, one is required to write “artist statements”. Such statements can easily lock an artist into fixed categories from which it is difficult to escape.
Although I wish to dodge the pitfalls of categorization, it is clear that some subjects interest me more than others, which in turn affect my aesthetic expression(s). But with time, my taste is likely to evolve, interests will change, nothing will remain the same. Therefore I will not be tempted to write any general description of myself at this point. I hope only that I am, and always will be, able to learn and to evolve.
Refuse to be a coward
- Ocean Without a ShoreI’m looking forward to seeing some videoworks by Bill Viola at Kabuso on Saturday; in the meantime I’m enjoying a youtube-clip of a video installation he did for the 2007 Venice Biennial.
- LimenEllen Ringstad, Hélène Førde, Sofia Eliasson, Emily Ilett, Moa Franzén Limen – exhibition opening this Friday 20.00 at Premiss, Damsgårdsveien 35. There will be a performance at about 20.30. The exhibition will also be open Saturday and Sunday 12.00 – 18.00. For more information see www.prmss.no
- Not in my backyard, pleaseMy head was pondering this morning, my pulse higher than ever before. I was burning alive, as a close friend watched me from a safe distance, match sticks in hand. I forgive you, little matches boy, you’re only struggling to survive. It is not enough to think happy thoughts. The flames die eventually, as dreams [...]
- Cannibalism
- Cleaning out my crayonsThere’s something absurdly beautiful in a graffiti-bombed wall. Perhaps it’s the post-industrial, apocalyptic and dystopic I am attracted to. It’s certainly an acquired taste, most likely influenced by my ex, a «legendary» spraypainter: «What do I think of tags? I can enjoy the beauty in a bombed wall or a bombed subway, although I understa […]
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