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Vanilla Partner, Even now, Andy Capp Variations
Torbj rn r dland sentences on photography
Torbjørn Rødland (born 3 April 1970) is a Los Angeles-based photographer known for portraits, still lives and landscapes that transcend their often banal settings and motifs and move into the otherworldly. Since the late 1990s, his work has been exhibited widely. It was included in the main exhibition of the 1999 Venice Biennale. The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo arranged a retrospective exhibition of Rødland’s work in 2003. Public collections also include Fonds national d'art contemporain (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago), The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City). After years of short stays in Tokyo, Beijing, Melbourne, Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Tallinn and New York City, Torbjørn Rødland has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2010.
Rødland is currently represented by Air de Paris, Paris; Greenspon, New York; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Nils Stærk, Copenhagen; STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo.
Background and Education
Rødland was born in 1970 in Stavanger, Norway. He studied Photography at the National College of Art and Design in Bergen, Norway and cultural studies at the Rogaland University Centre in Stavanger, Norway.
Work
Rødland's photography moves from genre to genre; portrait, landscape, still life can all be found in his constructed imagery of the everyday, whether in his Scandinavian hometown or in visual translations and explorations of Japanese Moé aesthetics or Americana. Wanting to push forward the artistic boundaries of his medium, Rødland has reconceptualized and integrated aesthetic qualities dismissed in postmodern art. Building on the work by The Pictures Generation and Jeff Wall, Rødland's photography represents a surprising revaluation of lyricism and what he calls the sensuality of the photographic moment. Originally known for his images of young beauties, Rødland transcended this potential trope by consistently inventing new lures for viewers of his photographs. An example of these lures is the subtle co-existence of the twisted with the warm normalcy of his figures; as seen in his photograph of a woman's hand with an octopus tentacle creeping through her sleeve and wrapped around her fingers. Also a subtle symbol of nonduality, this image is characteristic of Rødland's work. His matter of factness, even in stylized imagery and multiple exposures, is what allows Rødland to straddle both the commonplace and the otherworldly. 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."
Between 2004 and 2007 Rødland produced six video works. One of these, titled 132 BPM, was exhibited solo at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City) and at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima).
Books
Confabulations, MACK: London, June 2016. ISBN 9781910164631
Sasquatch Century, Mousse Publisher / Henie Onstad Art Center : Milano / Oslo, 2015. ISBN 9788867491308
Vanilla Partner, MACK: London, October 2012. ISBN 9781907946318
Andy Capp Variations, Hassla: New York, 2011. ISBN 9780982547168
A day in the life of.., Libraryman: Stockholm, 2009. ISBN 9789186269029
I Want to Live Innocent, SteidlMACK: Göttingen, February 2008. ISBN 9783865216175
White Planet, Black Heart, SteidlMACK: Göttingen, June 2006. ISBN 3865212220
Solo Exhibitions
2016 : Matthew Mark Luke John and Other Photographs, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
2015 : Venetian Otaku, Team (Bungalow), Venice CA
2015 : I Am a Photograph, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels*
2015 : Corpus Dubium, Algus Greenspon, New York
2015 : The Face I Found I Will Find Again, Standard (Oslo), Oslo
2015 : Sasquatch Century, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo*
2014 : The Yellow Shell, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger
2013 : Torbjørn Rødland, Algus Greenspon, New York
2013 : American Photography, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 : Before Behind Above Below, Air de Paris, Paris, France
2011 : Eighteen Analouge Double Exposures, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
2010 : A Black Ant Traveling, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, California
2010 : 132 BPM, Studio Exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2010 : Dearest Kitty, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 : Palace, The Modern Institute, Glassbox, Paris, France
1999 : Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, New York
1999 : Can you hear me?, 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Kulturviertel Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany; [2000] Kunsthalle, Rostock; Kunst Haus Dresden, Germany
1999 : Composite, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
1999 : dAPERTutto, 48th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
1999 : Near and Elsewhere, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
1999 : Signs of life, The Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
1999 : Wall 6>> Landscape #3, Air de Paris, Paris, France
1998 : Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York, New York
1998 : Standard Keyboard, The Pineapple, Malmö, Sweden
1998 : Slipstream, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
1998 : La Voie Lactée, as proposed by the Purple Institute, Alleged, New York, New York
1998 : Fellessentralen, Cultural Production in Norway in the Nineties, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1997 : Nor-A-Way, Stadtgalerie im Kulturviertel Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany
1997 : Alikeness, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Canberra, Australia
1996 : i am curious: These Days, Cubitt Gallery, London, England
1996 : Straight from the heart, Valokuvagalleria Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland
1995 : Call of the Wild, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Press
Campbell, Max "A Norwegian Artist's Memory Disturbances." The New Yorker, June 2016
Sholis, Brian, "Torbjørn Rødland". Aperture 221 November 2015
Sholis, Brian, "Torbjørn Rødland". Frieze, Issue 173, August 2015.
Johnson, Ken "Review: Torbjorn Rodland Mixes the Religious With the Evocative", The New York Times, June 12, 2015
Gavin, Francesca, "Torbjørn Rødland." Dazed Digital, January 2013.
TIME Photo Department, "TIME's Best of 2012: The Photo Books We Loved." TIME, December 2012.
The Photo Department, "Our Top 10 Photo Books of 2012." New York Times Magazine, December 2012.
Storm, Christian, "Visiting the Art Exhibits in Torbjørn Rødland's Dreams." Vice, November 2012.
Rødland, Torbjørn, "Sentences on Photography." Triple Canopy, May 2011.
Taft, Catherine, "Torbjørn Rødland at Michael Benevento." Artform, October 2010.
Nickas, Bob, "The Perverted Photography of Torbjørn Rødland." Vice, January 2009.
Lavalette, Shane, "Torbjørn Rødland in Conversation." Photo-Eye Magazine, October 2008.
Røed, Kjetil, “Books: I Want To Live Innocent.” Artreview, June 2008: Issue 23.
Kessler, Sarah, “Torbjørn Rødland: Opposites Must Never Cease to Come Together.” Whitewall, April 2008.
Blank, Gil, "Interview: Torbjørn Rødland." Uovo Magazine, March 2007.
Herbert, Martin, "Profile: Torbjørn Rødland." Contemporary Magazine, September 2004.
Fox, Dan, "Another Green World." Frieze, June-August 2001: Issue 60.