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E-catalogue for Andipa Contemporary's lastest exhibition with Norwegian artist Ian Garlant. SYNTHESIS I will be on show at the gallery from 17.11 to 17.12.2011. SYNTHESIS II, will be on show at our temporary project space, The Garage, will be on show from 25.11 to 28.11.2011.
Transcript of ANDIPA CONTEMPORARY | IAN GARLANT | SYNTHESIS
ANDIPA C O N T E M P O R A R Y
ANDIPA C O N T E M P O R A R Y
162 Walton Street | Knightsbridge | London SW3 2JL
+44 (0)20 7589 2371 | [email protected] | www.andipa.com
In 2009, Garlant abandoned the materialism and glamour of the fashion world and returned to his roots in a small
Norwegian community, Hartlestrand in the Hardanger fjord. He immersed himself in the landscape, from which he
re-emerged an artist with alchemical methods.
After his first highly successful solo show in London in 2010, curated by Kay Saatchi, Garlant returned to Norway.
There he discovered that archaeologists had retrieved a piece of ancient wood from the ashes of a fire in Bergen, which
burnt down an historic building in 1955.
It bore the inscription in runic letters “love conquers all; let us yield to love”. This is a citation from the Ecologues by
the Latin poet Virgil who died in c. 19 BC, long before the words were inscribed in Norway in 1248. Inspired by the
words themselves and their resonance across millennia and across civilizations, Garlant decided to build an installation
incorporating this and other runes, the work to be conceived as a gift to the artist’s antecedents, the community and
to the Norwegian landscape herself, to be called BERGTATT I HARDANGER / ENTRANCED IN HARDANGER.
He chose the place where his much-loved grandfather had dreamed of building a house overlooking the fjord before
being forced to abandon work during the German invasion in 1940. Garlant energetically threw himself into the landscape,
explored ancient Norse mysticism and called on the energy and expertise of the local people to collaborate in the creation
of an installation in the landscape designed to express the universal and hence to travel to distant lands. The project
incorporates a new sound work using ancient Norse lyrics, the carpentry of a local expert to create an outdoor gallery
using ‘grindverk’, an ancient Norwegian method of building.
The powerful works from Garlant’s seminal Midsummer Project have been brought out of the Nordic wilderness and
into the gallery for Synthesis.
Garlant’s elemental work expresses the wilderness and
power of the Norwegian landscape, unifying the natural
and the artificial, the ancient and the modern. Through the
incorporation of runes, symbols inextricably linked to Norse
mythology, he urges us to reconsider the wisdom and
mystery of ancient civilisations and their relationship to
the present.
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Ian Garlant at work
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right
Radiant space, 2011
Foam board, paper, driftwood, sulphur ore, sand,
ground mirror glass, gold spray and gold wax
Unique, Signed
120 x 120 x 12 cm
above
Time Machine, 2011
Iron, stone, bitumen and
asphalt on wood
Unique, Signed
100 x 100 x 3 cm
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right
Rune Wheel Dagaz (Time), 2011
Graphite, sand, sulphur, iron,
stone and silver wax on woods
Unique, Signed
66 x 48 x 5 cm
left
Time Piece, 2011
Stone, bitumen and asphalt on wood
Unique, Signed
66 x 48 x 5 cm
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right
Time Piece (outside)
right
Dirty Words, 2011
Sand, iron ore and mica on
boat building foam on wood
Unique, Signed
80 x 30 x 8 cm
above and right
With This Ring, 2011
Wood, bitumen, asphalt, gravel
and stone dust on wood
Unique, Signed
70 x 70 x 4 cm
left
With This Ring II, 2011
Sand, iron ore, mud and stone
on boat building foam wood
Unique, Signed
100 x 120 x 10 cm
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Rune Wheel Wunjo (Joy), 2011
Iron, stone, bitumen and asphalt
on wood
Unique, Signed
75 x 50 x 2 cm
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Rune Wheel Mannan (Power), 2011
Glass and sand on wood
Unique, Signed
75 x 50 x 2 cm
above right
Evidence, 2011
Iron, stone on foam and wood
on board
Unique, Signed
120x120x14cm
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left
Amor, 2011
(from Omnia Vincit Amor series)
Silver paint, wax and asphalt
on wood
Unique, Signed
100 x 100 x 9 cm
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Omnia Vincit Amor, 2011
(series of 3 panels)
Silver paint, wax and asphalt
on wood
Unique, Signed
100 x 100 x 9 cm (each panel)
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right
Oscillation, 2011
Sand, iron, stone, dirt and asphalt
on board
Unique, Signed
110 x 114 x 4cm
above
Signs of Life, 2011
Car paint spray, sand, dirt, boat varnish and
acrylic on boat building foam, mounted on wood
Unique, Signed
100 x 100 x 5cm
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right
Cedamus Amori (Rune figure), 2011
Dirt sand boat varnish on boat building foam
Unique, signed
240 x 80 x 8cm
left
Iluvuluvme (Love Stones), 2011
Iron stone sand on boat building
foam on wooden board
Unique, Signed
240 x 80 x 8cm
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Iluvuluvme (Love Stones), 2011
Iron stone sand on boat building
foam on wooden board
Unique, Signed
240 x 80 x 8cm
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Omnia Vincit Amor (Rune Figure), 2011
Dirt sand boat varnish
on boat building foam
Unique, Signed
240 x 80 x 8cm
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right
Metal Rain, 2011
Graphite silver wax and sand on wood
Unique, signed
60 x 40 x 4 cm
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Bergtatt i Hardanger, 2011
(Spellbound in Hardanger, Midsummer Installation)
Sand and foam on wood
Unique, Signed
200 x 200 x 8 cm (central section)
left
Cold Star II, 2011
Sulphur ore, bitumen, asphalt,
sand mica and glass on wood
Unique, Signed
240 x 80 x 8 cm
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right
Moon Dial, 2011
Sand, graphite, silver metallic
spray on board
Unique, Signed
75 x 75 x 9cm
Ian Garlant
Ian Garlant was born in 1962 to an English father and Norwegian mother. He pursued Fashion
Design at Kingston University receiving numerous awards including a Royal Society of the Arts
bursary. After a period designing for studio 1 in New York, he returned to England to take up a post
with Sir Hardy Amies in 1987, in 1999 was invited to Moscow to design costumes for a ballet written
especially for the Bolshoi by Alexei Rybnikow as part of their millennium celebrations. In 2006,
the artist’s Autumn/Winter collection was awarded a series of shows at the Victoria & Albert Museum
in recognition of his unique position in fashion.
By 2007, Garlant had returned to painting, creating new work inspired by the landscape of his
childhood. He pursued this at his grandfather’s fishing hut on the edge of the Hardanger fjord.
He emigrated to Norway in 2009 and prepared his first solo show. Since Autumn 2010 he has
been working on the Midsummer Project, a site-specific temporary and highly collaborative
installation, which opened in June 2011.
Exhibitions
2011 Midsummer Project, Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
2011 BERGTATT I HARDANGER / ENTRACED IN HARDANGER,
Norway
2010 UnEarth, curated by Kay Saatchi and in partnership with
the Royal Norwegian Embassy, London
2006 Fashion in Motion, Victoria & Albert Museum
Garlant’s Autumn/Winter collection was awarded a series of
shows in recognition his unique position in Fashion.
2003 Autumn/Winter Couture Collection on show at Royal Academy
of Arts, London. The Spring 2004 Autumn/Winter Couture
Collection, Shanghai, The People’s Republic of China (the first
Couture Collection to be shown in China).
1999 Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, costume design for ballet written
by Alexei Rybnikov for their millennium celebrations
Photography by Gunn Benete Stolen
Moon Dial .................................................. £2.500
Rune Wheel Dagaz (Time) ............................. £2.500
Rune Wheel Mannan (Power) ........................ £2.500
Rune Wheel Wunjo (Joy) .............................. £2.500
Metal Rain .................................................. £2.600
With This Ring I ........................................... £2.750
Time Piece ................................................. £2.750
Dirty Words ................................................ £2.750
Time Machine ............................................. £3.800
Signs of Life ................................................ £3.800
With This Ring II ......................................... £4.200
Oscillation ................................................. £4.200
Omnia (from Omnia Vincit Amor series) .......... £4.200
Vincit (from Omnia Vincit Amor series) ........... £4.200
Amor (from Omnia Vincit Amor series) ............ £4.200
Evidence .................................................... £5.500
Radiant Space ............................................ £5.800
Iluvuluvme - Love Stones ............................. £9.500
Iluvuluvme - Love in a Mirror ........................ £9.500
Cedamus Amori (Rune figure) ....................... £9.500
Omnia Vincit Amor Rune Figure .................... £9.500
Cold Star II ................................................ £9.500
Bergatt I Hardanger (central wheel) .............. £16.000
all prices are incl. VAT
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+44 (0)20 7589 2371 | [email protected] | www.andipa.com
