TORE MAGNE GUNDERSEN

TORE MAGNE GUNDERSEN

After working with sculpture, painting, drawing, printed art and animation, I have over the last eight years worked more and more with textiles. I knit and sew both by hand and with a machine. I use yarn, calico, chiffon, canvas, straw, ready-mades and other things in the production of appliqué works and more or less three-dimensional objects. The largest appliqué works are up to 12 metres long and may be called friezes, or they may be reminiscent of comic strips since they invite viewers to read them as stories. The works become largely impulsive. I fish out figures from the constant stream of alternating thoughts, images and emotions that flow through me day and night. The works can probably be considered as a confrontation and adaptation of my own demons, things I fear, figures from the subconscious, scenes from dreams. Recently, concerns about the precarious situation of the planet and the danger of global collapse have become mixed with a personal precariousness, confusion, aging, instability and death, so I can no longer fully distinguish between the two aspects.

Tore Magne Gundersen (b. 1957 in Froland, Norway) grew up in Kristiansand and lives and works in Oslo. He is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Oslo, and Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. Gundersen’s works have been purchased by the National Museum in Oslo, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, KODE Art Museums in Bergen and Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in Arendal. From 1919 to 2022 he has had a studio in Oslo City Hall. He has received several scholarships and held many solo exhibitions.

Red Water, 320×100 cm, 2021. Photo: Øystein Thorvaldsen
From Oslo City Hall studio. 2022. Photo Øystein Thorvaldsen

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