Still images from HD video, Coral, Tone Kristin Bjordam, 2009, 12 min loop

Norwegian artist Tone Kristin Bjordam works with video, photography, painting, drawing, objects and installation. On one hand, her work is complex, monumental and dramatic in form. This stands in contrast to a playful, spontaneous and easy style. This balance between the heavy and the light is typical of Bjordams work, regardless of the technique she works with. Inspired by science and our perception of forms in nature, Bjordam has for many years been working on projects visualising the movement and progression of liquid colour in fluids and unfolding organic forms in motion. She stages controlled, yet playful experiments and creates imaginary landscapes.

In the work Coral we are captivated as viewers by what can best be described as a moving abstract painting with allusions to both traditional romantic, atmospheric painting and chemical processes. With seductive imagery in a meditative pace, we are faced with cascades of colour that slowly appear to assume the shape of organic forms such as plants, smoke, clouds, explosions or, as the title suggest, corals.

See Coral in the exhibition Exotic at Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia. An international video and installation exhibition, 21.04. - 03.06. 2012:  http://www.kunstihoone.ee/sisu.php?mode=pl_kunstihoone_yritused&yid=483&lang=est&club=1&page=9

Or at Vestlandsutstillingen 2012:

11. 02. – 04. 03. 2012 – Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund.

17. 03. – 08. 04. 2012 – Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese.

11. 05. – 31. 05. 2012 – Haugesund Kunstforening, Haugesund.

09. 06. – 26. 06. 2012 – Sunnfjord Kunstlag, Førde.

Tone Bjordam showed new abstract paintings together with video in a solo exhibition December 2011- January 2012, Konsthallen in Luleå, Sweden:

Coral (video, big prodjection on the wall). Paintings on glass: Ice Cap, Forest Floor, Seascape, Lavalake, 2011.

Ice Cap, Tone Bjordam, painting, 2011


 

Biotope (Safe Landing)
Ink drawing and watercolor on paper
50 x 70 cm
2005 - 2010

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Bjordam is exploring the painterly potential of optical techniques by taking photographs of fragments and surfaces in nature. She grew up on a farm in the forest together with her ​​family who worked with geology. This early inspiration of forms and abstactions in nature still influences her artistic work today.

Sva (In Breheimen), photography, 2010

Upcoming: Video project, title: Critical Transitions. The theory behind the project is a collaboration with ecologist, musician and scientist Marten Scheffer. Premiere screening at ESA Conference 2012 (Ecological Society of America) in August in Portland, Oregon, USA.