Lumber limber

“MLAG is proud to open the 2021 season with a remarkable exhibition by Odin Austefjord. Austefjord's artistic work affords new insights into neo-encaustic forms merging with crafted wood. Through the layering of dried industrial paints, Austefjord’s approach to physical form is reminiscent of Rachel Whiteread and Lynda Benglis. Austefjord stages a dynamic choreography reliant on strength and spontaneity in the application of the industrial paints. Like lava flows, the industrial material finds its own path through Austefjord’s deliberate architecture of richly harvested steamed oak spires. Austefjord's sculptures play with our ideas of consumption, disposability and preservation. The new sculptures on display in the gallery seemingly consume the jettisoned industrial paint, while exquisite steamed oak thrusts outward defying any meaningless spill of the lesser material. The carefully harvested choice oak strips have been treated to steam baths then reassembled within Austefjord’s distinct sculptural practice."

Welcome to the Garden.
Michael Laundry
Curator

 All photos by
Henrik Skar