25 Aprile 2018   –   Tempo di lettura: 2 min   –   Rune Guneriussen

Rune Guneriussen

Dans la solitude du paysage

Centre d’art contemporain de la Matmut

425 Rue du Chateau

Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville, France

June 30 – September 30, 2018

The work of Rune Guneriusen revolves around two techniques: The use of a view camera for the setting and the photography. However, Rune Guneriussen claims to be first and foremost a photographer, photography meaning to him the ultimate end of his plastic research. Most of his interventions, realized on isolated natural sites, are only visible thanks to his photographs, the only remains and witnesses of what once was. In search of odd places, Rune Guneriussen acts on the landscape using a technique akin to Land Art by handling common objects: lamps, chairs or books that he stages and arranges according to a precise setting in natural spaces. He uses the natural landscape not as a backdrop but as the very subject of the setting.

He uses ridges and crevices, trees and vegetation and also meteorological phenomena like Snow storms or drops in temperature, to reach the desired effect. Rune Guneriussen brings life to these objects which enchant the landscape and seem to colonize the tree, the valley, the undergrowth, the ice. Their presence in these spaces, far from looking incongruous, seems almost unalterable. No trace of human presence remains, fiction thus prevails and takes us to a universe filled with these object-like creatures.

The installation by Rune Guneriussen in the grounds of Matmut’s contemporary art centre will echo his photographic work being exhibited inside.

Biografia Rune Guneriussen