Gaylen Gerber

GAYLEN GERBER (1955, USA) creates expressive, often revealing artworks and situations that incorporate the work of other makers, sometimes by foregrounding them and other times by seemingly obscuring them. For several years, Gerber’s practice has been characterised by a fusion of his own work with that of another, making them inseparable but equally present. This remains palpable in Supports, presented in osloBIENNALEN First Edition, where the viewer encounters forms that carry immediate as well as existing meanings simultaneously. Gerber maintains an ongoing tension by constantly renewing the relation between what is presented and how it is presented.

For osloBIENNALEN First Edition, Gerber presented a selection of works at Edvard Munch’s studio in Ekely, Oslo. Additionally, he presented a new work taking the German Barrack in the Myntgata quarter as a point of departure.

Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen is a historian, professor and writer based in Oslo and Bodø. He publishes regularly on the history of ideas, political culture, and philosophy.

In this essay he writes about
Gaylen Gerber’s Support series based on the cultural history of colours.

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SYMPHONY IN GREY