Siri Kollandsrud: We Are in It Together
We Are in It Together
“The title is a reference to our predicament, the state of war between and within each of us. The destruction, despair, hope, and resolve all together, all at once. What does it mean to be in a human body in the world, with contradictory and seemingly incompatible feelings: revulsion, love, and the longing for beauty in this chaos?”
“What is a painting? The feeling that the work is about life, the physical and concrete that we experience and create, between the immaterial and the material, is for me the nature of art. Working primarily intuitively. Starting from a scratch. The painting evolves during the process. You can say it is a searching dialogue with the materials on the surface. Doubt and anger are co-players. Color, rhythm, and texture are cooperating elements. Everything, all at once, is in a vital and ever-changing matrix. We are here together, in this one world. One nature. Paintings can be mental landscapes derive from contemplation, a form of research creating its own primary source in this world. ”
By Siri Kollandsrud
Nunu Fine Art Taipei's Project Space is pleased to announce "We Are in It Together," an exhibition of oil paintings by Norwegian artist Siri Kollandsrud. Siri Kollandsrud's artistic process is fueled by automatism, as she explores and converses with the materials on the canvas. With unrestrained passion, she pours her emotions onto the canvas, layer by layer, creating mental landscapes. Colors, rhythm, and texture complement one another, forming abstract configurations that evoke emotions and wonderment and recall the Cobra art movement and Art Informel.
Thus, the artist ponders—and invites us to consider—a fundamental question: What can a painting do? As Kollandsrud explains, “the title is a reference to our predicament, the war, and the wars between, and within each of us. The destruction, despair, hope, and resolve all together, all at once.... We are here together, in this one world. One nature. The paintings can be a mental landscape of contemplative matter, a form of research creating its own primary source in this world.”