Torbjørn Rødland

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Torbjørn Rødland
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Stavanger, Norway
OccupationPhotographer

Torbjørn Rødland (born 1970) is a Norwegian

photographic artist,[1] whose images are saturated with symbolism, lyricism, and eroticism. His 2017 Serpentine Gallery solo exhibition was titled The Touch That Made You[2] and travelled to the Fondazione Prada in Milan in 2018.[3] His work was shown at the Venice Biennale of 1999.[4] An early retrospective was held at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo in 2003.[5]

Among public collections holding examples of his work are the

Stedelijk Museum[8] in Amsterdam, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,[9] and Moderna Museet[10]
in Stockholm.

Background and education

Rødland lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He was born in 1970 in Stavanger, Norway. As a teenager, he freelanced for multiple Norwegian newspapers as an editorial cartoonist.[11] Rødland studied Photography at the National College of Art and Design in Bergen (Norway) and cultural studies at the University of Stavanger.[12]

Work

Rødland's photographs are produced through film-based cameras and chemical processing. Art historian and critic Ina Blom has reflected in

nonduality, this image is characteristic of Rødland's work.[16] His matter of factness, even in stylized imagery and multiple exposures, is what allows Rødland to straddle both the commonplace and the otherworldly.[17] According to Rødland, "the struggle is to make the image active and relatable; clear but complex. Like our new reality, it has to be layered and open to paranoid interpretation."[18] Or, as curator Bennett Simpson put it in an essay on Rødland, published in 2000: "His images are subjunctive; they operate under the yoke of a doubt, an impacted desire, the possibility of an impossibility."[19]

Between 2004 and 2007 Rødland produced six video works. One of these, titled 132 BPM, was exhibited solo at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City)[20] and at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima).[21] In 2018 Rødland produced a new video work, titled Between Fork and Ladder, which appeared in his solo exhibition Fifth Honeymoon at Bergen Kunsthall (Bergen).[22] The solo exhibition Fifth Honeymoon was presented again in 2019 at both Bonniers Konsthall (Sweden)[23] as well as Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki).[24] Rødland's most recent video, Elegy for the Silent, was finished in 2020 and included in a solo exhibition at The Contemporary Austin titled Bible Eye in 2021.[25]

Books

References

  1. ^ Rogers, Thomas (5 January 2018). "Torbjorn Rodland's Puzzling Photos Are Unsettling and Arousing". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  2. ^ "Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  3. ^ "TORBJØRN RØDLAND: THE TOUCH THAT MADE YOU – Fondazione Prada". www.fondazioneprada.org. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  4. ^ "La Biennale di Venezia, Online Exhibitions (1999)". e.g. labiennale.org. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  5. ^ "Torbjørn Rødland - Grave with a View (2003) Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO". e.g. photography-now. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
  6. ^ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Torbjørn Rødland". e.g. Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  7. ^ "MoMA: Torbjørn Rødland". e.g. MoMA. 2018-06-11.
  8. ^ "Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Torbjørn Rødland". e.g. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  9. ^ "The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Torbjørn Rødland". e.g. MCA Chicago. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  10. ^ "Moderna Museet: Torbjørn Rødland". e.g. Moderna Museet. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  11. ^ Rogers, Thomas (5 January 2018). "Torbjørn Rødland's Puzzling Photos Are Unsettling and Arousing". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  12. ^ "Torbjørn Rødland". e.g. davidkordanskygallery.com. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  13. ^ Blom, Ina, "Dream Work: The Art of Torbjørn Rødland", Artforum 2015/September, pp. 338-349
  14. ^ Blalock, Lucas with Rødland and an introduction by Hoffman, Jens, Folding the Periphery, Mousse #42, Milan 2014, pp.118
  15. ^ http://scs-assets-cdn.vice.com/int/v16n7/htdocs/torbjorn-rodland-perverted-photo-947/2.jpg [bare URL image file]
  16. ^ Blalock, Lucas with Rødland and an introduction by Hoffman, Jens, Folding the Periphery, Mousse #42, Milan 2014, pp.119
  17. ^ Nickas, Bob (July 2009). "The Perverted Photography of Torbjørn Rødland". Vice. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  18. ^ Martinez, Christina Catherine (13 November 2017). "The perverse photography of Torbjørn Rødland".
  19. ^ Simpson, Bennett, "Torbjørn Rødland's Sentimental Education", Nu: The Nordic Art Review 2000/No.3-4, Stockholm, pp.52-59
  20. ^ "Torbjørn Rødland: 132 BPM | MoMA".
  21. ^ "[The 14th Program] Torbjørn Rødland | Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art". 5 September 2022.
  22. ^ "Torbjørn Rødland: Fifth Honeymoon". e.g. Bergen Kunsthall. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  23. ^ "Fifth Honeymoon". Bonniers Konsthall. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  24. ^ "Fifth Honeymoon". Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
  25. ^ "Bible Eye". The Contemporary Austin. Retrieved 2023-02-28.

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