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Matias Faldbakken

09.23.11 - 10.16.11
Exhibition — BBB centre d'art

Matias Faldbakken
Jerry can sculpture 1-3, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and galerie Simon Lee
Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse
 

Matias Faldbakken
Jerry can sculpture 1-3, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and galerie Simon Lee
Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse
 

 

Matias Faldbakken
Jerry can sculpture 1-3, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and galerie Simon Lee
Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

 

Matias Faldbakken
Remainder XV, 2011

Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London
Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse
 

Matias Faldbakken
Remainder XV, 2011
Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London
Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

 

Matias Faldbakken
Remainder XV, 2011

Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London

Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

Matias Faldbakken
Untitled (Newspaper Rack #4), 2011
Courtesy of the artist and galery STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Matias Faldbakken

Untitled (MDF #1), 2008

Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London

 

 


 

Born 1973 in Hobro (Denmark) he lives and works in Oslo.

 

Matias Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Internationally known as both artist and writer, he has published two novels, The Cocka Hola Company and Macht und Rebel, under the pseudonym Abo Rasul. Their abrasive humour caused quite a stir in Norway. One of the central themes of his artistic work is the sometimes uncertain border between underground and mainstream cultures, between “independent” attitudes and commercial activity. Fascinated by the workings of knowledge and power, order and exchange, Faldbakken shows how art and artists can play a decisive role in these processes. Radically anti-aesthetic, his minimal, spontaneous and destructive works (which oppose the technologies of culture and communication in their use of rough, poor materials such as spray paint, adhesive tape and felt) obliquely proclaim a deliberate rejection of current social and artistic conventions.

 

One of the pieces he is showing at the bbb is a work produced specially for the venue, one which would look good outside an art centre – where it would be dumped on the ground by a careering pick-up.

In partnership with the mediation team of le Printemps de septembre and les Abattoirs – Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse