UNNI GJERTSEN (EDITION II)
Creative History
Norwegian artist Unni Gjertsen is educated at Kunstakademiet in Trondheim [NTNU]. She has also studied in Oslo, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Gjertsen has held a couple of separate exhibitions in Trondheim and Salangen and she has participated in a number of group exhibitions all over Norway. She uses painting and textiles as well as video and performance when creating her art.
Gjertsen is interested in how power is constituted in narratives that turn into history and thereby form people’s worldview. She is critical toward, but also attracted to the pompous language and monumental aesthetics in propaganda, advertisement and even poetry. She uses the same seductive strategies, but simultaneously, she tries to expose their workings. 'Creative History' consists of 10 silk screen prints of 70 x 100 cm each, with statements about female artists, writers, filmmakers. The work creates a possible but more or less false history of the public recognition and celebration of some well-known woman artists and intellectuals.
Norwegian artist Unni Gjertsen is educated at Kunstakademiet in Trondheim [NTNU]. She has also studied in Oslo, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Gjertsen has held a couple of separate exhibitions in Trondheim and Salangen and she has participated in a number of group exhibitions all over Norway. She uses painting and textiles as well as video and performance when creating her art.
Gjertsen is interested in how power is constituted in narratives that turn into history and thereby form people’s worldview. She is critical toward, but also attracted to the pompous language and monumental aesthetics in propaganda, advertisement and even poetry. She uses the same seductive strategies, but simultaneously, she tries to expose their workings. 'Creative History' consists of 10 silk screen prints of 70 x 100 cm each, with statements about female artists, writers, filmmakers. The work creates a possible but more or less false history of the public recognition and celebration of some well-known woman artists and intellectuals.
28 October, 2007 - 6 January, 2008, MuHKA
'Creative History', Unni Gjertsen, Oct 2007 - Jan 2008, MuHKA
