CAMILLA LØW
High Rise
19.6 - 16.8.20
ISCA Gallery is proud to announce its opening with the inaugural exhibition titled High Rise by Norwegian artist Camilla Løw.
Known for her sculptural work, varying from monumental site specific installations to smaller, more intimate pieces, the exhibition at ISCA gallery will be the first introduction to a new series of work created specifically for the space at Rosteds gate 10 in Oslo.
High rise consists of an installation of modular concrete sculptures and wheeled metal bases that explore notions of urban landscape and modern architecture. Through bold, precise forms and choice materials, Løw contemplates the relationship of the body to the construction of modern society’s infrastructures in the cities and landscapes we inhabit.
Cast concrete columns, consisting of individual stacked hollow cubes and tubes, populate the gallery floor. Their presence expresses an immediacy in how they occupy space and interact with the surroundings through their materiality, surface and volume. Bright colors dazzle against the coldness of raw concrete, each part stacked and delicately balanced, infusing the work with a lightness and playfulness that betrays their inherent physical weight. It is through this upending of conventions and her distinct visual language that Løw effectively pushes forward and expands the boundaries of modernist sculptural tradition.
Camilla Løw (b.1976, Oslo, Norway) holds a BA in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art and has received numerous awards and grants including those from the Scottish Arts Council and the Statoil Art Award. Recent solo exhibitions include: Alfabet, Belmacz, London (2019); Instrumental (Camilla Løw & Gert Marcus), Fullersta Gård , Huddinge (2018); Eye In The Sky, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (2016); Nerves and Muscles, Elastic Gallery, Stockholm (2015); Chain On Chain, Belmacz, London (2014); Spring Rain, Elastic Gallery, Malmø (2013); ‘Camilla Løw’, One Night Only, UKS, Oslo (2013); The Space of Shape-Time, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (2012). Camilla currently lives and works in Oslo.
Klassekampen Onsdag 1. juli 2020
Orchid, 2020
Concrete, spray paint 30 x 30 x 90 cm
Orchid, 2020
Concrete, spray paint 30 x 30 x 90 cm
Machines (Green) , 2020
Concrete, spray paint, steel and wheels 50 x 50 x 72,5 cm
Machines (Green) , 2020
Concrete, spray paint, steel and wheels 50 x 50 x 72,5 cm
High Wire, 2020
Spray paint, aluminum, light Height variable, 45 x 45 cm
New Light, 2020
Concrete, spray paint 30 x 30 x 120 cm
Informer, 2020
Concrete, spray paint 30 x 30 x 60 cm
Informer, 2020
Concrete, spray paint 30 x 30 x 60 cm
Machines (Black), 2020 Concrete, steel, wheels 30 x 30 x 120 cm
Machines (Black), 2020
Concrete, steel, wheels 30 x 30 x 120 cm
Refraction, 2020
Spray painted oak and cord 60 x 65 x 2 cm
Resistance, 2020
Concrete, spray paint, steel and wheels 50 x 50 x 71 cm
Resistance, 2020
Concrete, spray paint, steel and wheels 50 x 50 x 71 cm
Operator, 2020
Steel and wheels 50 x 50 x 11.5 cm
Photography by Jon Benjamin Tallerås