Underskog

Mark Leckey returns for his second public performance in Norway following the construction of the Guy Fawkes bonfire at Huk, to present Cinema-In-The-Round at Frogner Kino. Continuing a fall season dedicated to film, OCA has invited the artist to present a speciallly conceived collection of film, video, sculpture, painting and other works that, according to the artist, “come to life” on screen, grasping as much at intangible mass, weight, and volume as the indescribable essence of objects of which he is enthralled. Leckey shifts between an essay on the nature of images, the magic of cinema and an anti-authoritarian art history to an impassioned, personal declaration on the stuff of things in the material moment that we see then on screen. This presentation had originally been commissioned in 2006 by Ian White for the Oberhausen short film festival in Germany.

About the Artist

According to Roberta Smith of the New York Times, Mark Leckey is best known for manipulating pop images and music into dreamy, druggy, disjointed variants on music videos. Sometimes his work has a rough-edged energy, as in his 1999 club-life classic, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. Londonatella (2002) and Parade (2003) are nocturnal fantasies of beautiful people and consumer culture related to the 1980’s photo based work of Richard Prince. He is also known for working with his band Jack2Jack in music video combinations as in The March of the Big White Barbarians — a sarcastic tour of public sculpture in London using only still images, and Shade of Destruction, a dark and baroque narrative based on a Graham Greene story about the destruction of a house in post-blitz London.

Mark Leckey (1964) is currently Professor of Film Studies at the Staelschule in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He is together with Ed Liq, Bonnie Camplin, and Enrico David, the founder of the band donAtelier. He has recently opened a solo exhibition, Industrial Light and Magic, at Le Consortium in Dijon, with previous projects at Portikus in Frankfurt, Migros Museum in Zürich, Tate Britain, London and within group exhibitions at P.S.1/MoMA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, BALTIC, Manifesta 5, Salzburger Kunstverein, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art among others. He is represented by Cabinet in London, Buchholz Galerie in Cologne, and Gavin Brown in NYC.

Office for Contemporary Art Norway

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is a private foundation and was founded by The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in fall 2001. The main aim of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway is to develop collaborations in contemporary art between Norway and the international art scene. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway aims to become a profiled contributor to the discourses of contemporary art.