Gusts V
2017
Installation view Galeria Wschod, Warsaw
Gusts IV
2017Installation view Galeria Wschod, Warsaw
Gusts V
2017
60 x 50 cm
oil paint on wind barrier
Gusts I & Gusts II
2017
60 x 50 cm
oil paint on wind barrier
Installation view, Antoine Levi, Paris
Installation view, Antoine Levi, Paris
GUSTS, DRAUGHTS II
2016
178 x 124 cm
Oil paint on wind barrier
GUSTS, DRAUGHTS I
2016
223 x 163 cm
Oil paint on wind barrier
GUSTS, DRAUGHTS III
2016
180 x 128 cm
Oil paint on wind barrier
Installation View, The Drawing Biennal, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2016
3 x 10 m
marker on wind barrier
2016
Installation View
Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, NO
2016
220 x 170 cm
Acrylic marker on wind barrier
2016
170 x 130 cm
Marker on wind barrier
2016
170 x 130 cm
Acrylic marker on wind barrier
2016
170 x 125 cm
Marker on wind barrier
2016
180 x 240 cm
Marker on wind barrier
2015
220 x 170 cm
Acrylic marker on wind barrier
2015
220 x 170 cm
Acrylic marker on wind barrier
2015
40 x 30 cm
Framed inkjet photo
2015
12.7 x 7,6 cm
ink on indexcard (framed)
2015
7 panels, 250×90 cm each
Print on Fabric, Aluminum Stretchers
Installation View,
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, NO
2014
Variable dimensions
Pallets, plasterboards
Installation view Friche la Belle de mai, Marseille
2014
130 x 175 cm
laminate floor, mdf
Installation view, Bikini, Lyon
2014
280 x 115 cm
Paint absorbent felt on stretcher
2014
52,4 x 38,2 cm
framed inkjet photo on aluminum
2014
52,4 x 38,2 cm
framed inkjet photo on aluminum
Installation views,
Galerie Antoine Levi
Photo: Claire Dorn
Suites, per definition, are to be considered as consequetive units or pieces following a specific order and harmony. Like multiple rooms opening up, following each other continuously, or windows allowing a view to emerge through a fixed space, suites both suggest and direct progression. Olve Sande’s works, then, follow this compositional logic, appearing as unified objects or extracts of a larger composition, which rather than functioning as fixed referents, invite the viewer to follow through. On a very practical basis, this manifests directly in the formatting of the works, as each piece is based on measurements from speci fic windows. The measurements were sourced from the architectural surroundings of Jørn Sværen, a Norwegian poet Sande has collaborated with for the exhibition. Through this, a bedroom, storefront, or café window may become displaced into the gallery and integrated into the sense of exchange and experience underlying the exhibition.
These standardised measurements function as a structural premise that contextualises the works in the exhibition and ties them to another. This is not only evident, however, in their formatting, but further in the materials employed by Sande for their realisation. The unpainted plasterboards are put into a direct relationship with paint-absorbent felt, entering the two into a mutual relationship characterised by the potential of spills. This becomes a clearly felt tension between the repellant and the absorbent; a tension that is highly emblematic of the spatial parameters Sande delineates in his practice. Each space becomes a space of dialogue between the materials and structures that form its existence, and by extension, inform our experiences within their con fines.
At that, there is an implicit poetry that lingers around the works, evoked in the elusive nature of the titles. As a viewer, one is made to wonder where the rigid measurements and architectural material vocabulary comes into relation with the sentimentality and enigmatical nature of the notes. They seem to hover on the sidelines, informing the work, almost distracting from its stark flatness. The titles and dimensions of the works, provided by Sværen through a series of exchanges with Sande, could be described as marginal notes; they become exposed as the internal commentary of the poet, responding in quiet, significant gestures to the experience of the Suites.
2014
195 x 234 cm
plasterboard on aluminum
Photo: Claire Dorn
2014
197 x 161 cm
paint absorbent felt on stretcher
Photo: Claire Dorn
2014
166 x 126 cm
plasterboard on aluminum
Photo: Claire Dorn
2014
207 x 95 cm
paint absorbent felt on stretcher
Photo: Claire Dorn
2014
155 x 85 cm
plasterboard on aluminum
Photo: Claire Dorn