Underskog

THE NEW LANDS

EVA DRANGSHOLT (NO)
feat. George Kuchar (US) & Paul Gauguin (FR)
Curated by Linus Elmes

OPENING on Friday, Sept. 2nd at 7pm

Sept 2nd – Okt 16th 2011

The New Lands is primarily the outcome of a two year long process, collaboration and dialogue between Eva Drangsholt and Linus Elmes. As much as an artist, initially invited for a solo show, Eva Drangsholt’s role has developed into a curatorial position with a departure in her own sailing experience along the American West Coast.

Although, it might as well have begun on April 6th, 1891, when an ill, tired and poor Paul Gauguin embarked on a four-month journey by sea from Marseilles to the island of Tahiti to pursue a life of artistic purity. It is the story of the bourgeois stockbroker, family man, and amateur painter who abandoned his wife and children to live on an island paradise in the South Seas, where he developed a visual language so revolutionary that Symbolism, Primitivism, Fauvism, Expressionism and Abstraction would be unthinkable without him.

George Kuchar has since the 1950’s, in experimental films full of perverted clichés, with talentless actors and without plots or themes, been a prominent figure in American independent film. Andy Warhol, John Waters and Kenneth Anger have all been influenced by him. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he makes many of his tapes in collaboration with his students. In 1992, Kuchar received the prestigious Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists from the American Film Institute.

The New Lands involves in both a direct and indirect way, through physical representation and as drifting thought not only Gauguin and Kuchar but also John Nielsen, a man who Eva met during her trip and invited to Oslo as a deputy artist …

Food:
Papaya Ratatouille
Hot, Vegetarian, Fruit, Dairy Wheat Gluten free, Eggless. Tahiti, French Polynesian.

Ingredients
Olive Oil
1 Onion, chopped
2 Garlic Cloves, crushed
1 Chilli Pepper, deseeded and finely chopped
3 Tomatoes, diced
2 sprigs Fresh Thyme
Salt and pepper
1 Bay Leaf
2 barely ripe Papayas, peeled, deseeded and thinly sliced

Instructions

1. Heat the oil in a frying pan then add the onion and garlic and cook until soft and transparent.

2. Add the chili and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring.

3. Add the tomatoes, bay leaf, thyme, salt, pepper, and papayas. Mix well, cover the pan and cook over low heat for 15 minutes or until the papayas are soft. Serve hot.