"Harding Puls"
Hardanger Artists inspired by Olav H. Hauge and Geirr Tveitt
Celebrating the Olav H. Hauge and Geirr Tveitt Anniversary 08
Exhibit on display May 15- Sep 7

About the artists contributing to this Anniversary Exhibition

Aud Bækkelund | object | www.hardingpuls.no/aud

Education
National College of Art and Design, Bergen, Norway; Major in Textile 1984 – 1989

Aud Bækkelund is a visual artist/textile artist. She works both two- and three-dimensionally, and uses a variety of materials and techniques.

“Aud Bækkelund’s works are thoughts in flight, impossible to catch, impossible to place within categorical frameworks. They are tuned to a minor key and poetic. They are playful, intuitive, and simultaneously extremely reflective and neatly worked out. In the juxtaposition of these seemingly irreconcilable qualities something occurs which defies definition. I.e. works which defy frameworks of genre and exist by the force of its absurdity and exposition.”

About the works for this exhibit:
She has used Geirr Tveitt's music as inspiration. The exhibit at the Trygve Lie Gallery features a three part piece inspired by Concerto No. 2, "Tri fjordar" ("Three Fjords"); the Hardangerfjord, Sognefjord, and Nordfjord. She thinks the shape and contours of the fjords can visualize the wealth of details as well as the forcefullness of the music. It is a sort of planned doodling, where she is winding her way along in a similar manner to how the Hardanger Fiddle does in this composition.

Audun Storaas | woodcut

Audun Storaas is a visual artist and he is self-taught. His technique is woodcut.

The poems of Olav H. Hauge are the backdrop of his artwork on display at this exhibit.

Ingunn van Etten | painting | www.hardingpuls.no/ingunn

Education
National Teacher’s College, Art ed., Norway 1977 - 1978
College of Art and Design, Bruxelles, Belgium 1973 - 1975
Art Academy, Leuven, Belgium 1972 - 1973

Ingunn van Etten is a visual artist, illustrator and author.

”Ingunn van Etten is a competent and productive image maker. Her works are filled with beautiful colours, sympathetic imageries, and a friendly poetic sensibility, and are characterized by a high degree of technical conscience. We are led into the world of art by many familiar associations. Here are references to European art history, Surrealism and Naivism, etc.” (Helge Torvund, Stavanger Aftenblad)

The poems of Olav H. Hauge are the backdrop of her artwork on display at this exhibit.

Jorunn Haugse | painting | www.hardingpuls.no/jorunn.haugse

Education
Bachelor of Arts (with honours) Fine Art, ved University of Central England in Birmingham

Jorunn Haugse is a painter, working with acryl on canvas, pencil drawings, posters and, not least, comic strips.

About the works for this exhibit:
Working with the Hauge/Tveitt-jubilee, she has studied Hauge’s poems for the motifs and lines, while Tveitt’s bold music has influenced her choice of colours. The way she has portraid the motifs, and her focus on atmosphere, has been greatly based on Hauge’s own interest in Japanese poems and prints. Like old works from masters such as Hokusai, where single objects in nature – trees, mountains and so on – have been iconised, Hauge picks a tree or a waterfall and builds the whole poem around it. In addition She found inspiration in modern Japanese art, with its uninhibited use of pure colours. With the music by Tveitt as background music, she has painted both out of single poems, and a collected mood based on several poems.

Liv Eirill Evensen | Composer/electronic contemporary music

Liv Eirill is a composer, and works mainly with electronic contemporary music. She has cotributed on numerous projects together with visual artists and actors, resulting in "picture plays" and installations giving both sound and visual experiences. She has also collaborated on different programs for poetry and music.

About the works for this exhibit:
The work features compositions made for five Olav H. Hauge poems. She wanted to make an experimental, human sound expression, reflecting the feeling she has when she reads the poems. She explains that, to her, the poems by Hauge are very complex and the nuances are many. She feels a lot of melancholy and longing, but at the same time also a lively personality full of wit. The letter correspondence between Olav H. Hauge and Bodil Cappelen has been a great source of inspiration to her.

Svein Nå | textile, weaver | www.hardingpuls.no/svein.naa

Svein Nå is a textile artist, weaver, and he is self-taught.

”Among Norway’s growing numbers of weavers, Svein Nå takes an exceptional position. Not so much because of exterior effects in his production, rather due to the lack of it. Here is a soft spoken search for visual values placed within the limits and evident register of a material. A continued probing of possibilities, through high respect for the craft and tradition, puts the weight of this artist’s work on the very act of making, the technical production of weaving. The respect for tradition and material seems to want to meet with an ever greater simultaneity in the expression. With sensitivity to the chosen format the visual idea is brought forth in the composition. Svein Nå is a developing artist. In silence he communicates his experience of the world to us. His serious work within the textile expression is a message which is entitled to our attention.”

Svein Nå commenting on his works for this exhibit:
"In the material I work, I must adhere to the techniques and craft. I try to play along with the expression of the textile. The weavings for the exhibition are initiated by Olav H. Hauge. The text is remade into visual expressions. The poems are: "Kverni" ("The Mill"), "Ver og Vind" (Weather and Wind"), and "Eg rek" ("I Wander"). Olav H. Hauge can say so much with simple words. His language is beautiful. Nature, from the wild to the tranquil, it is all there in Olav H. Hauge's poems and Geirr Tveitt's music. Also I am part of the nature here, with its changing seasons, blooming fruit orchards, the fjord, the glacier and the mountains."

 

Synneva Heradstveit | watercolour | www.hardingpuls.no/synneva

Education
National College of Art, Bergen 1985-89
National College of Art and Design, Bergen 1969-72 and 84-85

Visual Artist; Water colors and collage.

She works in a modern watercolour technique; It is all about colours meeting and coming together, how the character of the different colours encounter water. She finds her colours in the landscape, between fjord and mountain, boat and water, house and sky – in the changing light, weather and wind. Travels bring about new colours, new images, and she is always searching.

About the works for this exhibit:
She grew up in Tveitt's landscape, and his lyrical music touches her. There are also tonalities and colours in Hauge's poems. They are related to the earthly and everyday life, which she feels is familiar. It is about present, about identity .

 

Åse Berit Skeie Ultang | painting | www.hardingpuls.no/aase.berit

Education
Bergen art school (KIB) 1998-2000
Dagskolen i tegning og maling, Bergen 1998

Åse-Berit is a Visual artist. She expresses herself through painting, installation and performance.

She finds inspiration in everyday situations connected to the role of women/caretakers, and the materials she uses are also from this environment. Her focus is on the unpredictable situations which arise in her work process. To reach others through visualizations of unspoken and invisible values is central for her.

About the works for this exhibit:
Two poems of Olav H. Hauge have been the inspiration when creating her paintings.