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 at:

Konsthallen i Luleå, Sweden, 10 December 2011 - 28 January 2012

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 shows new abstract paintings together with video in the ongoing exhibition in Luleå, Sweden:

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

Sva (In Breheimen), 2010

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