Reversed Site-Specific | 15th September- 10th November 2008 | Galleria Enrico Fornello Prato
Enrico Fornello Gallery is glad to present the works of the young Norwegian artist Ane Mette Hol for her first solo show in Italy. The P21 space will host some works where the artist goes on her search, started in 2003, about relationship between drawings and reproduction of different objects, like xerox pages, masking papers or wads. In the gallery space the artist offers a minimal setting. At first glance it could be exchanged for a simple series of masking papers, the kind generally used during space renovations works, reversed on the floor, or rolled together in a corner. A more attentive look discovers that all traces on the masking papers, every mark of white paint, all the dust over them, and the masking papers themselves have been reproduced, drawn again by the artist. What we see is not an "objet trouvé", or a simple copy of an object; it is a completely new re-production. Ane Mette Hol’s intent is not a simple serial juxtaposition but a very careful and attentive questioning about relationship between creativity (as generative-creative action), consumerism (incidental to her choice of objects in series) and commodity value (the work, but also what it reproduces) in the art world. The triviality of the work has an impact when experiencing the handcrafted process of making the reproduction, which, literally, frustrates one’s certainties arisen from the first quickly glance.
Ane Mette Hol (1979, Bodø, Norway), took part to a great number of national and international expositions, as e.g. The Drawing Biennial, Oslo (2008), in the same year: Lights On exhibition at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; and Hardcore at Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand (Norway). On 2007 she took part to the annual National exposition at the Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo and Trondheim Art Museum; in the same year she had a solo show at Lautom Contemporary (Oslo). On 2006 she took part to Goods to Declare, MFA International, Tel Aviv (Israel) and she was in some shows in Germany (Das Auge des Ich, Berlin, 2005; Festival der Kunste, Bremen, 2004), Sweden (Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, 2007) >>