Four artists (Alexandar Rasulić, Filip Matić, Camilla Wærenskjold and Casper Evensen) of diverse origins showed their graphic works in Oslo. The starting point for this project was to present the work done on screen (computer) and transfer it to material sheets. Thanks to the collaboration with an American hardware manufacturer (Epson), attempts have been made to print the images onto graphic sheets with the desired quality.
The exhibition situation for the four artists was unique. Instead of resorting to the professional gallerist, artists have rented a gallery room from a Norwegian-American entrepreneur.
The seeming outsider gallery, in professional terms, with its otherwise decorative profile, called Art Delicious, has been found very appealing by the artists, who could have anticipated the exhibition space without preserving a permanent address.
Screen-based-to becomes artists, thus wondered in cost terms, assuming the audience will acquire from these collection prints. Then, we must add that the machine lender, Epson, has succeeded in guaranteeing the brightness of this ink technology—two hundred years of simulation as a measurable firmness. The publishing has allowed the artist to exchange values in addition to unique production, thus claiming to have attached even the artists’ personal household needs. At the same time, this has allowed the audience to acquire material of artistic value without having to answer for its unique costs.
Familiar to the four artists was a collective concession of striving for quality that lays the artistic material beyond the usual. As the proverb goes, one needs to run down to build up; the artists expected to seize a chance in this way to build on their spiritual qualities. Moreover, as these printing techniques have overcome the readiness of their practical origins, new dimensions for the artists arise. The unique instrumentation was like the orchestra and the total score for the composer. As for new generations of artists, what has typically seemed a deterrent technically no longer holds the same positions.
Text: Casper Evensen
Translation: Filip Matić