Photographic modernism x 2

In recent years photography has become a natural part of modern art. At the same time as modernistic photography finds its place in the history of art, Norsk museum for fotografi – Preus fotomuseum has a major role to play in this respect. We open this year’s autumn season with an exhibition by two active artists who hold key positions in the history of Nordic post-war photography: Carl Nesjar (b. 1920) and Ann Christine Eek (b. 1948). Nesjar represents the abstract, while Eek represents subjective photography.

Carl Nesjar is a central Norwegian post-war artist and has been active since the 1940s. He has worked with paints and graphics as well as with photography, but is best known for his all-weather fountains (ice and water) and his long-standing cooperation with Picasso. He was part of the environment that helped abstract art achieve its breakthrough in Norway at the end of the 1950s and he also made a significant contribution to getting photography recognised as an art form in Norway in the 1970s. Nesjar’s language of expression takes nature as its starting-point and abstracts it. For him, photography is only one of many forms of expression he chooses to use. He is conscious of the limitations of the technique, and primarily sees its strength in the lack of an absolute yardstick and in the scale of greytones that give the images a graphic and abstract expression.

Ann Christine Eek was educated as a “photographer and fellow human being”, in accordance with the philosophy of Christer Strömholm at Fotoskolan in Stockholm at the end of the 1960s. She moved to Norway in 1979 and was actively involved in the environment that developed photography as a form of artistic expression in the 1980s, both through her own production and as a writer and critic. Today, she is employed at the University Museum of Cultural Heritage and is attached to Samfoto. Eek too has a conscious affiliation with photography, as is clearly evident in the way she defines her different projects, whether they be sensitive depictions of nature or keen observations of social conditions.


The exhibition opens on Sunday, 5 September at 2 p.m.

Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday 12.00-17.00

PRESS IMAGES/OTHER INFORMATION:

Additional press images are available at www.foto.museum.no. Press images may be sent electronically or by regular mail.

High-resolution images: Monika Jensen Tel. +47 3303 1634

If you have further queries, please contact by e-mail: Astrid Roberg or Hanne Holm-Johnsen



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