The Eternal 1
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Year: 2011
Edition: Unique
Technique: Custom photographic panels
Framed: No
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AUTHENTICITY
All artworks on IdeelArt are original, signed, delivered directly from the artist's studio, and come with a certificate of authenticity."The Eternal" is a monumental site-specific installation created by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad for the Wolfe Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), Ohio. Commissioned by the Ohio State Arts Council’s "Percent for Art" program in collaboration with the internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta, the work serves as a permanent anchor for the building’s main lobby entrance.
Artistic Vision & Technique
The installation consists of a massive mural of 28 x 96 feet (8.5x28m). The work is composed of 39 custom photographic panels protected by high-performance 99% UV-filtering Plexiglas, secured by a bespoke aluminum bracket system engineered specifically for the building’s unique "sloping mountain" architecture.
In this work, Senstad translates her deep research into the phenomenology of light and color into an immersive architectural experience. Inspired by the expansive Ohio skies and the natural landscape, "The Eternal" functions as a "captured moment" of light. By utilizing digital photography as a medium for pure color and atmospheric state, Senstad dissolves the boundary between the physical wall and the infinite horizon, inviting the viewer into a state of sensory contemplation.
Context & Significance
Inaugurated in 2011, the project highlights Senstad's ability to work at the intersection of science, technology, and art. The execution required extensive collaboration with structural engineers and architects to ensure the work could withstand environmental factors while maintaining its ethereal aesthetic. It stands as a testament to how site-specific art can humanize and elevate public spaces, turning a high-traffic lobby into a "sensory chamber" that resonates with the rhythms of the natural world.
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New York and Oslo-based Norwegian photographer Anne Katrine Senstad’s work concentrates on sensorial responses to light, color, and form, transcendental philosophies, and social-political environmental initiatives.
Education
Anne Katrine Senstad was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, earning a BFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design and concentrating on film at the New School for Social Research in New York, which prepared her for a multi-disciplinary practice: installation, video, photography, neon sculpture, and site-specific work.
Technique
Senstad produces photographic C-prints from scanned color film negatives.
Her most recent (2020) solo exhibition at Freight + Volume in New York, Color Kinesthesia 6A42.2, in collaboration with diverse materiality, is in dialogue with Rothko’s color field paintings....
Color Kinesthesia implies the body’s response to color transitions, made possible through photographing color film negatives. As a photographer, Senstad captures a moment of light and color from an interactive installation, weaving together a cohesive multidisciplinary practice.
In contrast, the geometric phenomena of ubiquitous triangular orientation versus changing color combinations in Concrete Planes (2019-2020) speaks more of scientific and philosophical investigation rather than a transcendental experience like in the Cosmosis Collages series.
This series was created to complement Senstad’s neon light installation Elements and represents oneness with the cosmic universe as a path of enlightenment. The Suprematist and Constructivist movements inspired her, while the use of modern technology and materiality produced new visual forms.
Inspiration
Senstad’s process begins with research on perception and the cognitive response to light, sound, and color. Her clever use of neon commercial materials expresses poetic humor and articulates a literal and critical intent.
With Forget Flavin, a white neon sculpture referencing Dan Flavin, shown at Freight + Volume, Senstad straightforwardly marks her own territory in a male-dominated light art genre....
In Through The Spectrum at Athr Gallery, Jeddah, a light art exhibition in the Middle East, Senstad presents alongside James Turrell. Although she explains her work as a perceptive cognitive response to light, sound, and color, rather than Turrell’s spiritual source, it’s difficult not to compare.
What Senstad and Turrell share is an invitation to the transcendental experience.
Senstad’s installations are immersive and interactive, evoking a psychological response to light, sound, and color, rather than an interpretation of the sublime.
She seeks to represent her sensorial experimentation and investigation as unique compared to her male contemporaries.
Exhibitions
Senstad has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows throughout the United States, Norway, and worldwide.
Galleries
Kristin Hjellegjerde, London
Pink Gallery, Seoul
SL Gallery, New York City
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