EXHIBITION: 'ANATOMEN'

Welcome to the exhibition opening on 29 October at 6 p.m.!
Morten Viskum’s ANATOMEN (THE DISSECTION ROOM) is the first separate exhibition to be held at the new Buer Gallery.
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Buer Gallery is a high-end gallery with a primary focus on contemporary art, featuring both Norwegian and international artists. It is situated in Hoffsveien 40B, in the west end of Oslo.

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ANATOMEN (THE DISSECTION ROOM) / MORTEN VISKUM
29.10–29.11
 
As a veterinary student from 1987 to 1993, Morten Viskum spent long hours reading in the Dissection Room of the Norwegian Veterinary College.
 
His study desk was beside a display case in which was exhibited half a calf in formaldehyde. Here he would sit and daydream, with no particular direction to his thoughts.  
 
It was only when Viskum went on to the National Academy of Art, where he studied from 1993 to 1997, that things fell into place. This is what his daydreaming had been about: art.
 
The exhibition THE DISSECTION ROOM includes three works from Morten Viskum’s period at the academy, all from 1995. The remaining works, produced between December 2018 and October 2020, have as their starting point a lithograph by Edvard Munch, ‘The Anatomist Schreiner I’. During the creation of these works, Viskum was blindfolded either at the start of or during the whole performance.
 
Selected works are presented on the dissection table and symbolize the experience of being in the dissection room, as Viskum remembers it.
 
 
VENUE: BUER GALLERY, HOFFVEIEN 40B (ENTRANCE A) HOFF HOVEDGÅRD, OSLO
DATE: 29 OCTOBER 18:00 – 20:00
EXHIBITION DURATION: 29 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2020
 
THE ARTIST WILL BE PRESENT AT THE OPENING. WELCOME!
 
– Tonje Buer, Gallerist/Curator
BUER GALLERY
tonje@buergallery.no
+47 93676798