{"id":140,"date":"2021-11-19T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T09:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afmuseet.dev10.dekodes.no\/en\/artists\/torbjorn-rodland\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:40:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:40:59","slug":"torbjorn-rodland","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/afmuseet.dev10.dekodes.no\/en\/artist\/torbjorn-rodland\/","title":{"rendered":"Torbj\u00f8rn R\u00f8dland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Date of birth<\/h3> 1970<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

Country<\/h3> Norway<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

Norwegian artist Torbj\u00f8rn R\u00f8dland has in later years lived and worked in Oslo, New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Among contemporary Norwegian artists, R\u00f8dland is one of the biggest names internationally. His chosen media are photography and video, and he has worked with everything from still life, landscape, and nude portraits to double-exposure and abstract photography.\n\nR\u00f8dland brings the beauty in the seemingly trivial clearly to the fore, and he seeks out potentially meaningful material not normally taken seriously. Silence, mystique and unease make their presence felt in his photo series of otherwise banal motifs such as sunsets, pets and beautiful young people. \n\nIn the early 1990s R\u00f8dland established his position as a central figure in the breakthrough of photography as an art form in Norway. As part of the \u201cBergen wave\u201d of artists that included Mikkel MacAlinden, Ole Johan Aandal and Vibeke Tandberg, he was very familiar with the US Pictures generation, the critical \u201cappropriation photographers\u201d of the 1970s and 1980s such as Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. R\u00f8dland has, however, distanced himself from the often ironic attitude to life of his generation and seeks to challenge the notion that an authentic experience is no longer possible. In contrast to the works of the Pictures generation, his own works are not intended to decode pictorial conventions but rather to retain the onlooker in the process of observing.\n\nIn R\u00f8dland\u2019s first known photo series, In a Norwegian landscape, begun in 1993 while still a student at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, he took portraits of himself in various landscapes, usually with his back to the camera as he enters the forest carrying a supermarket bag. Since then, he has also photographed priests, nudists, police and black-metal artists in Norwegian landscapes. The pictures are imbued with a feeling of paralysis and passivity. A typical motif is attractive female models striking awkward poses while staring enigmatically into the middle distance with a mix of the sweet, the mildly erotic and the stupid. This \u201cbeauty strategy\u201d endows the photographs with an extraordinarily melancholic atmosphere.\n\nIn R\u00f8dland\u2019s works one recognizes elements from amateur photography, photojournalism and popular culture. The authenticity of the documentary photograph\u2019s sharpness and objectivity is undermined by an aesthetic that one tends to find in commercials and fashion and lifestyle magazines. The grandiose aspect and the seductive effect that such pictures seek to arouse is, however, lacking. Impressive mountain landscapes therefore appear flat, and the opulent charms of the naked models appear asexual. In many ways they seem unable to speak. R\u00f8dland has called these \u201cperverse photos\u201d \u2013 photos that refuse to fulfil their function or communicate a message, whether commercial or documental. He seeks to void the photo of all ideological or instrumental utilitarian value. What happens, for instance, with a photo that could potentially have sold a product but fails to do so? Can one in this way achieve genuine contact with the world?\n\nR\u00f8dland represents a type of photography that understands that memory and culture form an integral part of seeing. Youth, nakedness and romantic landscapes are part of the mass media\u2019s communication strategy. Naivety is attractive, but essentially impossible. He concerns himself with the photographic construction of the world and plays on the public\u2019s own mental picture archive and the visual clich\u00e9s and conventions familiar to us all. And amid this staged naturalness, something that is essentially beautiful is retained. The photographs vary between the genuine and the superficial, between seriousness and irony. And above all, they are imbued with the essential ambiguity of R\u00f8dland\u2019s balancing act between the dark and the sugar sweet.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1018,"template":"","meta":{"afm_hide_title":false,"afm_artist_date_of_birth":"1970","afm_artist_date_of_death":"","afm_artist_birth_place":"Norway","_afm_post_new_title":""},"class_list":["post-140","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nTorbj\u00f8rn R\u00f8dland - Astrup Fearnley Museet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/afmuseet.dev10.dekodes.no\/en\/artists\/torbjorn-rodland\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Torbj\u00f8rn R\u00f8dland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Norwegian artist Torbj\u00f8rn R\u00f8dland has in later years lived and worked in Oslo, New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles. 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