Faithful Copy (2011)
Solo show, RAM Gallery, Oslo
20.08.2011-25.09.2011
PRESS RELEASE
Amy Hunting (born 1984) challenges the audience as well as the concept of art in her new project Faithful Copy (Tro Kopi) at the RAM Gallery in Oslo. This is also her first solo exhibition. Over the last three years, Hunting has established her own studio i London where she explores the disciplines of design, illustration and drawing. She was invited to exhibit at RAM precisely to draw the lines between these different disciplines in a way that can reveal the way from idea to surface and form.
Amy Hunting has her education from the department of furniture and room design at The Danish Design School. In addition to being a designer and an artist, she is the founder and owner of Norwegian Prototypes, an annual exhibition which features the best of Norwegian product design. Hunting also works as a curator for this exhibition and she also participated in the exhibition ”The Gap between Art & Design” at the Norwegian Momentum Festival of 2010.
At RAM Gallery she presents The Felt & Gravity Collection is a series of furniture objects where the force of gravity is used as one of the components. The materials are kept simple, but to a high quality in thick 100% wool felt, Douglas Fir timber and solid brass bolts and wing nuts. The whole collection is flat pack.
A series of fifty numerated drawings whose motive is drawn from an old photography of a family sitting on or standing around a bicycle.The motive is commemorated and repeated over and over again. For the spectator the motive is always recognisable, but appears with small variations with each repetition. Reflections on what might be the one true original and the ultimate rendering of the motive plays in the mind of the spectator. The details that are different in each of the drawings give a sense of dynamics as if the figures in the drawings at any moment of time could be given life as animation pictures. In this way the characters are given a role that exceeds the expected and thus set the agenda for the three dimensional works of the exhibition.
An anamorfoscope, which transforms a flat, transfigured motive into a three dimensional experience of the same motive gives the audience the possibility of taking an interactive look onto the world of materials that Hunting is known for. In the mirror that surrounds the anamorfoscope, there appears the three dimensional picture of a floor.
Written by Gudrun Eidsvik, RAM Gallery
