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Artworks
Jone Kvie
Second Messenger #4, 2017Aluminium, basaltAluminium:
5 x 5 x 170 cm
1.97 x 1.97 x 66.93 in
Basalt:
30 x 30 x 142 cm
11.81 x 11.81 x 55.91 inJKV17004Further images
Second Messenger is the title of an ongoing work series starting in 2017 where sculptures are composed of basalt, a volcanic rock, together with fragments of aluminum. Kvie's starting point...Second Messenger is the title of an ongoing work series starting in 2017 where sculptures are composed of basalt, a volcanic rock, together with fragments of aluminum. Kvie's starting point was Richard Sennett's book Flesh and Stone (1996) which deals with society’s relationship to the body, and how it’s reiterated in city space.
Second Messengers are also neurotransmitters that enable the brain to message the body. There are several elements that have this function, calcium is one of them. When you think about calcium you think about its importance for our skeleton. But it is also important for the brains communication with the body.
The basalts appear so bodily as they are lying there like some fragments, some appearing as underarms, others almost as legs or a torso.
The basal appear in its found form and is untreated having a kind of angular shape created from how they are formed by being pushed up from Earth's crust creating a link between other themes in the artist's oeuvre e.g. extraordinary natural phenomena like nebular and star formations and found objects that through the artist's mediation become sculptural relations.Exhibitions
2022: Are we there yet, Nils Stærk, DK
2019: Here here, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, NO
2018: Jone Kvie - Metamorfos, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenborg, SE
2017: igneus, Elastic Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2017: Jone Kvie, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, NO
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