7th June 2018, the six part documentary-series on Odd Nerdrum’s life and work was released on Vimeo where you can rent and buy individual episodes or the entire series.
Downloading the documentary is an option reserved for $10 patrons of The Cave of Apelles.
For about a year, Jan-Ove Tuv, Öde and Bork S. Nerdrum traveled the world to seek out Nerdrum’s former students and his sources of inspiration. They visited museums that made an early impact on Nerdrum, his former pupils, as well as the film director who inspired him to go to Iceland where he further developed his allegorical imagery.
Why did Nerdrum give up on social-realism and move his figures out in the desolated landscape and what drove him to reject the word “art” and call himself a “kitsch-painter?”
These and many other questions are explored as his son, Öde and his former pupil, Jan-Ove Tuv, go on a world tour in the master’s footsteps, resulting in the most comprehensive documentary on Odd Nerdrum that has ever been produced.
“Sometimes you have this notion or feeling that you recognize an influence, but suddenly you deeply understand exactly what the influence is. And that happened a lot during our journeys, where all the pieces came into place,” Öde told Juxtapoz magazine in January, and described the documentary in the following way: “It’s not a how to paint video, it is more about the realm of ideas.”
Jan-Ove Tuv — the lead character in the documentary — studied with Nerdrum from 1996 to 2002 and has often pointed out that his teacher avoids looking at painters from an historical point of view, trying instead to look at the paintings from a perspective that must withstand comparisons across time.
The film-series is available with english, spanish, chinese and norwegian subtitles.
Also worth reading:
http://worldwidekitsch.com/news-articles/born-in-the-wrong-country/
Drifting
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Infant
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Loving couple
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We are now collaborating with Det Gylne Galleri
Now you can order lithographs framed by Det Gylne Galleri in Tønsberg – operated by Madeleine Skarsteen and Nicolai Aschim, who continue four generations of experience in the art of framing. A selection of Odd Nerdrum’s prints will also be on view in the gallery located in downtown Tønsberg next to Farmandstredet. The gallery offers local pickup of ordered prints in their new store in Drammen as well as Oslo, where they collaborate with Det Gylne Snitt. Local Pickup Points: Det Gylne Galleri, Håkon Gamles gate 1A, 3111 Tønsberg Det Gylne Galleri, St.Olavsgate 3, 3017 Drammen Det Gylne Snitt, Frognerveien 24, 0263 Oslo Odd Nerdrum’s prints can be ordered with our standard 3072-CD frame with passepartout delivered in AR92 glass (92% ultraviolet protection) from our online store. Limited edition prints by Odd Nerdrum:
Kitsch Meets Art: Nerdrum & Melgaard Exhibition in Oslo
Two worlds collide when the exhibition Nerdrum & Melgaard opens 6 pm Thursday 7th November at Fineart Oslo. The show will include limited edition prints by two of Norway’s most influential and controversial figures in the kitsch and art world respectively. Odd Nerdrum and Bjarne Melgaard represent diametrically different but powerful visions: the former with his classical figuration, focusing on timeless imagery and vulnerability, and the latter with his contemporary, expressive style, tapping into sexuality, identity and the grimness of life. On display will be recent as well as venerable prints that have stood the test of time, original drawings, sculptures and a unique collaborative self-portrait. This double portrait reveals the opposing forms of expression — giving the public an opportunity to closely compare the two. Odd Nerdrum and Bjarne Melgaard agreed last year to do a collaboration. Here together with the gallery owner Rolf Stavnem. Photo: Naina Helén Jåma / VG The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) will be present and cover the opening, which will include opening remarks from the real-estate investor Christian Ringnes and the editor-in-chief of Subjekt, Danby Choi.
Rembrandt’s Melancholy and Classical Values
Do you want to know how the mind of the greatest classical painter of our time works?Do you wonder what “classical values” actually are?And why melancholy is actually that important to us? Odd Nerdrum and his former student Jan-Ove Tuv sit down for a conversation in the building which is the Nerdrum Museum in the making: The old Pipe House at Agnes Square outside of Stavern.With a philosophical approach to painting, the discussion will move beyond the strokes and attempt to explain the meaning of painting. Join a one hour conversation about: • The importance of Rembrandt’s melancholy• Why storytelling is so important to us• Why “modern” values are destructive for classical painters and the audience. The event will take place September 14th at 17:00 – 18:00. Tickets are now available.
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[…] Huffington post – The Dawn of the Kitsch Movement av Brandon Kralik. • The Nerdrum Museum – ”The Hunt of Odd Nerdrum”, released on Vimeo. 2018. • Artist daily – The Kitsch Alternative av Michael Gormley. • Boise weekly – The Kitsch […]