Overview
Opening in the winter of 2018, Kabuso, Norway will host the solo exhibition, Zooid, by Ragna Bley. The exhibition consists of a series of large paintings on untreated canvas and a series of small bronze sculptures put together into one whole.
Opening in the winter of 2018, Kabuso, Norway will host the solo exhibition, Zooid, by Ragna Bley. The exhibition consists of a series of large paintings on untreated canvas and a series of small bronze sculptures put together into one whole.
The paintings are three meters high and abstract in expression. Thinned acrylic paint on the white canvas causes the colors to flow out and into each other in a way reminiscent of watercolor. In the picture, organic and floating shapes appear that are repeated in the tiny, gnarled bronze figures found on the floor. Zooid is a term taken from the natural sciences and refers to animals or organisms that are part of a larger colony, such as algae and corals. The elements in the exhibition appear as a whole, a total installation.
Ragna Bley was born in Uppsala, Sweden, but lives and works in Oslo. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and the Royal College of Art in London. Bley has received international attention and has exhibited in between Hamburg, London and New York. The exhibition Zooid has previously been shown at the Munch Museum in motion - Kunsthall Oslo.
