Glance

  • Artists:

    • Irma Salo Jæger
    • Sigurd Berge (Manufactured by)
    • Jan Erik Vold (Author)
  • Creation date: 1970/1990
  • Object type: Installation

Not on display

About

Irma Salo Jæger made her breakthrough with a solo exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo in 1968. Along with artists such as Jakob Weidemann, Inger Sitter, and Gunnar S. Gundersen, she helped establish abstract painting in Norway, using strict horizontal and vertical lines and coloured areas to express her art.

In 1970 Jæger teamed up with the poet Jan Erik Vold and the composer Sigurd Berge to carry out a commission for the recently opened Henie Onstad Kunstsenter outside of Oslo. The task was to create a work of art relating to the theme “Man in Space”, and together the trio created the multimedia work Glance. As a painter, Jæger wanted the art to appeal to other senses than just sight. It was she who constructed the work’s sculptural and mobile component, while Vold wrote the poems and Berge composed a soundscape. The artists were interested in exploring how the use of new audiovisual technology in art would create a new communication with the viewers. Glance originally consisted of five square framework modules, assembled in a large construction. Inside the modules are mobile blades with plastic rings in primary colours. The sounds, movements, and poetry recitals were synchronized by a custom-made electronic system that controlled the various motors, spotlights, lasers, mirrors, loudspeakers, projectors, and playback equipment. Jæger was a pioneer in this field, presenting a kinetic work that embraced its surroundings more broadly than the other kinetic works of the 1960s. Glance is one of the earliest modern examples of a Gesamtkunstwerk, based on collaboration between various art forms and the era’s hypermodern technology.

Text: Randi Godø

From "Highlights. Art from 1945 to the Present", Nasjonalmuseet 2016, ISBN 978-82-8154-116-0

Artists/producers

Work info

Creation date:
1970/1990
Other titles:
Blikk (NOR)
Object type:
Materials and techniques:
speil, aluminium, fargefilter, pleksiglass, lyd og lys
Dimensions:
  • Height: 200 cm
  • Depth: 200 cm
  • Width: 200 cm
  • Other: 190 cm
Keywords:
Classification:
Inventory no.:
MS-04354-2000
Cataloguing level:
Complex object/artwork
Part of exhibition:
Kunst 2, 2005 - 2007
Acquisition:
Gift from Irma Salo Jæger 2000
Owner and collection:
Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, The Fine Art Collections
Photo:
Annar Bjørgli
Copyright:
© Berge, Sigurd, Jæger, Irma Salo/BONO, Vold, Jan Erik/BONO

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