Matias Faldbakken: Not Made Visible - Softcover

Rasmussen, Mikkel Bolt; Faldbakken, Matias; Sholis, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 390577092X ISBN 13: 9783905770926

Publisher: JRP Ringier, 2009

Synopsis

Rising Oslo artist and writer Matias Faldbakken, born in 1973, has published two novels under the alias Abo Rasul. Filled with acid humor and low blows, his immediately notorious books investigated the relationships between underground and mainstream culture in Norway. His artwork does the same, taking on systems of knowledge, power, order and exchange.

About this title

Synopsis

Matias Faldbakken is an artist and writer living in Oslo. Son of the celebrated Norwegian author Knut Faldbakken, he has published two novels, "The Cocka Hola Company" and "Macht und Rebel" under the alias Abo Rasul. Drenched with acid humor and continuously hitting below the waist, his books immediately caused a considerable stir in Norway. If, in these publications, he underlines the differences and similarities between the so-called underground and the mainstream, and between the 'independent' and the 'commercial' in everyday life, these subjects are also central to his art practice. Fascinated with systems of knowledge, power, order, and exchange, he shows an interest in understanding how art and artists can be active participants in these systems. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen as well as at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt am Main.He represented Norway in the Nordic Pavillion at the Venice Biennial in 2005, as well as showing his work in the Wrong Gallery at the Whitney Biennial, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the National Museum Oslo, the Sydney Biennial and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, among others.

The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller.

About this edition

• Publisher: JRP Ringier
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 390577092X
• ISBN 13: 9783905770926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Keller Christoph