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Press release announcing solo exhibition at Lappish Art Center, Karasjok, October 2011
Lars Staffan Evjen’s exhibition Silent Interior at Samisk Kunstnersenteroffers an extraordinary encounter between charcoal as matter and as medium. A literally overwhelming and massive installation of charcoal is presented in conjunction with a series of detailed and hyper-real charcoal and felt pen drawings.
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Per Gunnar Tverbakk: A Room that Listens
The interior has a long and wide-ranging history as a motif in the visual arts. Not only is the history of painting full of scenes of various domestic rooms, the interior also plays a part in many works of contemporary art that question genre distinctions
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Knut Ove Arntzen: "Interiors seen with the Third Eye:
In the visual arts, interiors reflect the individual’s gaze and standpoint. They can be metaphoric expressions and depictions for transferal in the abstract and figurative senses.
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Øystein
Hauge: KANT (Close to the philosopher's edge)
Evjen's "The Silent Interior" can be read as a report from the
border-land. Technically, and according to the thesis "The End of
Art," Evjen records
boundaries for what one can and dare achieve as an artist.
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Øystein Hauge, catalogue introduction 1997
s there significance in the silence of a work of art? Evjen's drawings intimate this question. The answer lies in the play between light and lines, the flirt of the shadows with the white planes, and the compositional restlessness around the openings in the drawing. Perhaps even more important than the perspective, with its slightly unsettling visual shifts, are the poetic structures Evjen implies. This work provides content for individual interpretatio