Ornamental Sleep. Morten Slettemeas y Marius Engh EN

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Ornamental sleep. Morten Slettemeås y Marius Engh

Morten Slettemeås. Green ground, green mountain. 2015. Oil on canvas. 200 x 300 cm

Ornamental Sleep. Room 1. General view

Ornamental Sleep. Room 1. General view

Morten Slettemeås. Red tree, green tree. 2015. Oil on canvas. 150 x 120 cm

Ornamental Sleep. Room 1. General view

Morten Slettemeås. Black sky, blue sky. 2015. Oil on canvas. 78 x 60 cm

Morten Slettemeås. Black sky, purple ground. 2015. Oil on canvas. 150 x 120 cm

Morten Slettemeås. Pink trees, pink ground. 2015. Oil on canvas 200 x 150 cm

Morten Slettemeås. Black sky, yellow trees. 2015. Oil on canvas. 44 x 63 cm

Ornamental Sleep. Room 2. General view

Marius Engh. Time has turned into space, and there will be no more time till I get out of here. 2010 / 2015

Marius Engh. Time has turned into space, and there will be no more time till I get out of here. 2010 / 2015

Marius Engh. Time has turned into space, and there will be no more time till I get out of here. 2010 / 2015

Marius Engh. Time has turned into space, and there will be no more time till I get out of here. 2010 / 2015

Marius Engh. Time has turned into space, and there will be no more time till I get out of here. 2010 / 2015

Marius Engh. Double Fantasy (Gil Braltar). 2015

Marius Engh. A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the Sun. 2015

Marius Engh. XOXO. 2015

Marius Engh. XOXO. 2015

Marius Engh. XOXO. 2015

Marius Engh. White on White. 2013 / 2015

Marius Engh. A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the Sun. 2015

Marius Engh. A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as the Sun. 2015

Marius Engh. Snoezelen. 2015

Press release

The gallery Luis Adelantado Valencia is proud to present Ornamental Sleep, an interesting dialogue between the works of the Norwegian artists Morten Slettemeås and Marius Engh, where we can find sculptural pieces and installations by Marius and the latest paintings from Slettemeås.

Morten images are broken down through an intuitive painting process, mixed and reformulated around abstraction and representation of a collective memory that revisits culture and nature.

In a globally fragmented world, build on what remains, building from a quote, from the historical possibility of poetic expression today. To change the passages to another context.

On the other hand, Marius Engh presents two installations in which everyday objects that we find will bring us to several readings and different codes or communication systems such as Time has turned the piece into space, and there will be no more time till I get out of here where quilts allude to the utility the black American slaves give them before the Civil War, to communicate among themselves.

Or the photographic piece double fantasy is referred to the Gibraltar macaques as the real inhabitants of the island, calling to an identity reflection. Starring in several episodes as the wedding of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the island.

In another of its installations that takes up an entire gallery floor, we find different media constellation forming the space into something that resemble the sacral. A circular projection of vivid colours drifting in the darkened room. The projector is initially used as a therapy form, to those who suffer from the syndrome, called Snoezelen.