"The honest picture will always be a good picture." | Olav Christopher Jenssen | Louisiana Channel
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- “My pictures are about something that's touched me,” says Norway’s great painter Olav Christopher Jenssen, who shows us around his studio and speaks about the inspiration behind his work.
”Painting fascinates me for several reasons. The circumstances of painting are quite clear. You can define a painting on a simple basis. The acceptance of these limits also defines the possibilities. Some pictures are good because they're honest while they're unfinished. But the honest picture will always be a good picture,” says Olav Christopher Jenssen, who built his studio in an old school in rural southern Sweden, where he spends most of his time with his family.
He speaks about the inspiration behind different series of work, for instance, the series called ’Since we all came from the same place’, made in 1994. “It was a stormy night. Hysterically stormy”, he says. He just kept on painting without caring about anything else. The circular in a large circle and each reflection in a way stopped time... You stop the passing of time,” he says.
“A pathetic way of saying it is that pictures somehow finish themselves. It sounds cryptic. But time also offers opportunities. This can be recognized in many other instances of life. The good picture operates in this field of perception.” “Different pictures require different approaches. I work on many different facets at the same time, but I still have a sense that the time-lapse I'm in affects everything at the same time.”
Olav Christopher Jenssen (b. 1954 in Sortland, Norway) is a Norwegian artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Lya, Sweden. He studied at the National Arts and Crafts School in Oslo (1976-79) and the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway (1980-81). From 1996-2006 he was Professor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, and in 2007 he was appointed Professor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig. Recent major solo exhibitions include Astrup Fearnley Museum, Norway (2019) KIASMA, Finland (2010), Kunstmuseum Brandts, Denmark (2009) and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2003). Jenssen also participated in documenta 9 (1992). He is represented in several significant public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, USA, Moderna Museet, Sweden, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Norway, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, Centre Pompidou, France, Kunstmuseum Bonn, and The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design in Oslo, Norway.
Olav Christopher Jenssen was interviewed by Christian Lund in his studio in Lya, Sweden, in January 2022.
Camera: Rasmus Quistgård
Edit: Signe Boe Pedersen
Produced by: Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2022.
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People often expect too much from art. Jenssen makes decent looking pictures, even though they're not particularly "deep." To me they're an exercise in color and texture, and would look nice hanging in a well-designed space. The palettes are appealing, and it's a pleasant experience to stand in front a large painting that has good color and texture. Sometimes that's all it has to be. He obviously has his thing going, so good for him. People who come in here and express bitterness should really just focus on getting their own thing going, as that would be energy better spent.
Probably only 1 picture is not deep but As process itself, already very deep and he wants it too
when teaching children I was studying that it is the process not the product. allowing the flow,,,it is that entry into the right brain that time does not matter. Today there is so much abstract....much of it is redundant... colours affect us....perhaps more than form
Haven't seen this artist till now! Nice work!
Great paintings, AMAZING scarf
This guy is a great speaker. I gotta learn to weave words like that.
“Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue”
― Henri Matisse
His language seems to be non-representational - no actual semantics.
What a fabulous set-up ❤
The world of art cannot be matched by any other human activity in richness and scope.
Exactly, he’s so on point, thank you for sharing
Stunning and inspiring body of work!!!!
I agreed with you Cristina 👋👍
great work!! amazing spaces to create! thanks for sharing
Bom dia . Muito bom. Me identifico com esse tipo de obra, simplesmente rica no seu abstracionismo .
Great Art ,and amazing colors.love It.
Fantastic process. Thank you.
I agreed with you bear 👋😉
Good work, inspiring.
Good stuff. I love his line
The most interesting thing is that he is sure that he is making great art!
Finally some cool looking canvases
not all of them, just a few here and there look visually more appealing than the average abstract art we see today.
Love the works..
If I had only 10% of the space he has.
mans goes in
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brilliant AND beautiful!
I agreed with you raiph 👋👍
Beautiful art
Very nice video
Thank you for sharing 👋💕
Nice guy, nice work
That was interesting, thanks for loading.
i very like this video
Fantastic
I bet the kids he was teaching could paint just as good as he can.
Genius !
Because to see your hand painting
Offers me a several new poems i can express what yours language on painting🤔
Question: how do You choose the artist you interview? Do you interview up and coming artists?
¡Qué interesante trabajo, muy inspirador!
Sería maravilloso que activaran los subtítulos para otros idiomas. Valoren esa posibilidad. No todos hablamos inglés. Gracias.
Aunque yo hablo noruego, no es fácil entender lo que dice. Cuando se trata del arte, para mucha gente lo parece el idioma “griego” 🥴
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Good 👍🏻😃👏😍
Perhaps you could have the big doors open the other way for convenience's sake.
This artist reminds me of the writer in a clockwork orange.
The whole time i feeling like Alex and his droogs are gonna come in and kick the shit out of him!
Btw he does really nice work
Nice reference haha!
❤🙌🏽❤
What on earth is an 'honest' painting? Miro or Chagall, one of them once said that painting had gone down after cave painting
“Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue”
― Henri Matisse
Silly artists describing their work.
One with true intent and pure expression of the artist, would be honest, no?
@@nickfanzo If it were possible yes, I would love to see pictures like that and am doing my level best to produce such things, unfortunately people are beguiled by 'craft' people write entire books on the subject that switch context all the time, it's all very difficult
@@davideatwell6577 yeah but a lot of that is your subjective opinion of their works.
@@nickfanzo It's too complicated to play ping-pong with, the number of variables means you'd need so much balls
Arbeitsvorgang 🙏
Anyone know the music?
So glad he was never one of my teachers. I know a good deal about painting and I thought these were most assuredly not good paintings. The approach and lack of thought are a big part of the problem, as is the handling and technique. I would not want to see more, and certainly not an exhibit.
And Mr. Jenssen is certainly glad that he got around teaching you...
Jump over your shadow for once. At the beginning, when you are learning an art, teachers will certainly teach you guidelines and rules to help you. But at some point you have to emancipate yourself and find your own approach to art and break the rules. Otherwise you will never find your own style. And that is what the world is waiting for.
@@TheFrank411 Are you speaking to me? Because your reply is a red herring and not germaine to the points I made. But don't bother elucidating because I can already see this is going nowhere.
@@TheFrank411 style is only a form and the world is definitely NOT waiting for another guy with his own style. If ppl ARE waiting for anything in Art (and that's a big 'if'), then it would be someone whom they can use as their own eyes to see what they've never seen.
@BubbleMix2006 If so, then you must agree with me about this "bad art".
“Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue”
― Henri Matisse
An "honest picture" is certainly the funniest thing I've heard today. Perhaps it's the translation that is misleading. Most things artists verbally declare can usually be just as valid as stated as the opposite approach. Marcel is laughing, it's just product. Sometimes a compelling product.
I suppose it's not your fault
Reminds me of Nero ,can’t stop fiddling .
What inanity.. ego BS
How so?
This is more some decoration than art, it doesn't touch me. Somehow boring, big but cold and without character, sorry.
Boring work.
This is manic scribbling and scratching. Yeah, drone on about imaginary content and meaning, repeating the same methods in the huge white temple you've constructed to your own greatness.
Someone is super butt hurt, wow! You could use one of those little hemorrhoid circle cushions to relieve that burn!
It’s all black screen
working for me
fine for me
It’s fine
Any chance that we can view his paintings and not his mixing pallettes.
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️😂
Another one that failed art class…
Mere rubbish.
How so?