Ole Martin Lund Bø
Untitled floor piece and painting
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari – Project room
3.–18.8.2013
Ole Martin Lund Bø (Norwegian, born 1973) has had solo exhibitions in
Norway, Germany and New York. He was in the International Studio &
Curatorial Program in New York in 2006-2007. He graduated from The Academy
of Fine Arts in Bergen, Norway, in 2002. Lund Bø currently lives in
Helsinki.
Ole Martin Lund Bø has a distinctive minimal, interdisciplinary approach to
his work. He playfully misuses materials as an entry into a larger paradox.
His materials and subject matter – such as foil, tinted glass and rubber –
are inscribed with meaning, radiating power and desire. They act as
excerpts of architectural structures or forms of social decorum. The works
themselves, however, are extractions rather than abstractions, suggesting
an act or a certain behavior. The formal minimalism engenders the feeling
that the intended subject is somehow missing from the work, existing just
outside the field of the work. The monochrome surfaces are stage sets,
codes and catalysts, producing their own specific rules of engagement.
