80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Torbjørn Rødland
Chocolate Number
Lot Closed
February 8, 09:32 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Torbjørn Rødland
b. 1970 Stavanger, Norway
Chocolate Number
Executed in 2017 - 2020.
Chromogenic development print, Ed. 1 of 3, 1 AP
15 ¾ x 11 ⅞ in. (40 x 30.2 cm)
Framed: 16 ¼ x 12 ½ x 1 ½ in. (41.3 x 31.8 x 3.8 cm)
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Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery
Torbjørn Rødland is a contemporary Norwegian artist whose photographs elicit sinister or unfamiliar narratives. Rødland often stages commonplace themes such as fashion ads, nudes, still lifes, and portraits but gives them an underlying quality of disruption or perversion. “The struggle is to make the image active and relatable; clear but complex,” he has explained. “Like our new reality, it has to be layered and open to paranoid interpretation.”
Torbjørn Rødland limits himself to film-based cameras and chemical darkroom processes, embracing the analogue roots of photography even as he challenges the separation of genres that defined its evolution throughout the 20th century.
Rødland's work is in dialogue with a number of other contemporary photographers, including Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, and Eileen Quinlan. His works are held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Art in Oslo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, among others. Solo shows include Fifth Honeymoon at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2015), which traveled to Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, where it was on view until January 2020. Other recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2018); Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2017); and C/O Berlin (2017).