Gavin Jantjes

In Oslo as well as abroad, Gavin Jantjes is known to most as the former senior curator for international art at the National Museum in Oslo or the former artistic director of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. Jantjes has been a key opinion former and contributor to the contemporary art scene in Norway. His love for painting made him curate An Appetite for Painting, his final exhibition for the National Museum in 2014. The research undertaken for this exhibition paved the way for his return to the studio and the daily practice of painting.

Painting is rapidly returning to the arenas of cultural discourse and exhibition practice. It is timely that non-figurative painting can once again occupy public attention not through its references or depictions, but through our sensory reading of a painted surface. The works function as catalysts for ideas and reminiscences about place, the environment and the broad array of things formed on the surface of the earth.

The Exogenic Series (Aqua) was exhibited at Oslo Kunstforening, Norway 05.10 - 05.11 2017.

Forfatter: Marianne Hultman, Paul Regrette. Gavin Jantjes

Redaktør: Marianne Hultman, Martin White

Korrektur: Martin White

Foto: Christina Leithe Hansen

ISBN 978-82-7531-003-1

Utgitt av OK BOOK, 2018

Design: Research and Development, Stockholm

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