Andrea Scholze: A Brief Moment in Time

Andrea Scholze: A Brief Moment in Time, 2018

The exhibition “A Brief Moment in Time” at Østfold Kunstsenter (ØKS) in Fredrikstad, Norway in 2018, displayed wall pieces, sculpture and an installation environment in the form of a greenhouse filled with ceramic plantlike objects made from black clay. Common theme amongst the works were that they all were unfulfilled in a way. The wall pieces show part of a process, inspired by the inner walls one can use when building a large sculpture in clay. The structures that start to form in the building process, like an inner skeleton, which then gets hidden within the finished sculpture. With inspiration from these she made them as their own finished pieces. Many of the forms are built from a stoneware clay which is reminiscent of concrete, due to her fascination of brutalist architecture with its monumental and raw expression. In the exhibition space there is also a canine looking creature laying on the floor, “Temporary being” (2018), unglazed, and made from the same concrete-looking clay.

“When I made the work “Minnet om noe som var» (Memory of Something Past) in 2017 I wanted to stop in the middle of the process, but I also wanted to finish the work as planned. I finished the work, but I always felt there was something interesting occurring in the middle of the process as well, when the work still was unfished. I went back to explore this for the exhibition at ØKS and allowed the sculpture “Temporary Being” to be incomplete this time, frozen in the middle of the process.”

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• Temporary Being (in front), 2018, Unglazed stoneware, 130x75x25 cm. Concrete 8 (on wall), 2018, Unglazed stoneware. 50x35x5 cm. Image: Patrick Bjørsrud. From the exhibition A Brief Moment in Time at Østfold Kunstsenter, Fredrikstad, Norway.
• Silent Green, 2018, Greenhouse, unglazed stoneware, metal, LED-light, ceramic tiles., 35x200x200cm. Image: Patrick Bjørsrud. From the exhibition A Brief Moment in Time at Østfold Kunstsenter, Fredrikstad, Norway.
• Silent Green, 2018, Unglazed stoneware, 60×25,5×30,5cm. Image: Patrick Bjørsrud. From the exhibition A Brief Moment in Time at Østfold Kunstsenter, Fredrikstad,Norway.
• Concrete 10, Concrete 11, Concrete 12, 2018, Unglazed stoneware, Each 108x93x7cm. Concrete 12 is in the permanent collection of KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen, Norway. Image: Patrick Bjørsrud. From the exhibition A Brief Moment in Time at Østfold Kunstsenter, Fredrikstad,Norway.
• Temporary Being (in front), 2018, Unglazed stoneware, 130x75x25 cm. Image: Patrick Bjørsrud. From the exhibition A Brief Moment in Time at Østfold Kunstsenter, Fredrikstad,Norway.
• Silent Green, 2018, Greenhouse, Stoneware, metal, LED-light, ceramic tiles. 35x200x200cm. Image: Patrick Bjørsrud. From the exhibition A Brief Moment in Time at Østfold Kunstsenter, Fredrikstad, Norway.