Børre Sæthre

Børre Sæthre (b. 1967 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian artist whose exhibitions combine many skills, including those of the architect, the interior designer and the set dresser.[1] His installations comprise interconnected environments that take the visitor into a fantastic, dreamlike universe which is both aesthetically pleasing and psychologically disquieting.

In 1996, he launched LUSTLUX,[1] under which his spatial environments (incorporating walls, furniture, light, sound, and different props) are produced. The structures are spectacular and are created with painstaking precision; the rooms, corridors, pits and dark corners take you into another world, an enigmatic labyrinth populated by unlikely juxtapositions of stuffed animals, furniture and environmental sculptures, with carefully controlled lighting, recorded sound and music, video, living plants, motorized walls and sliding doors.

In the past, Sæthre has spoken of his fascination with Freud's concept of "the uncanny". So instead of trying to shock his media-saturated audience, he draws visitors into active participation in his synthetic dreamlike worlds and gives them a true taste of the uncanny.[2]

Sæthre lives and works in New York, Berlin and Oslo. He is represented by Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France

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Academic

His academic career has been:[3]

Solo exhibitions

References

  1. ^ a b "Press release: Børre Sæthre". Quarantine Series. 2003. http://www.quarantine.nl/series/content/index.php?section=press_releases&id=172. Retrieved 2007-11-22. 
  2. ^ Ken Pratt (November 2007). "Art Review - "This is what boys in their stained boxers run from"". Wound Magazine (London) 1 (1): 208–210. ISSN 1755-800X. 
  3. ^ "Børre Sæthre". Loevenbruck Gallery. 2007. http://www.loevenbruck.com/artist.php?id=saethre&view=bio&global_language=en. Retrieved 2007-11-22. 

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