Our final event before summer!
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium
Ida Lorentzen: The Silence Afterwards
(NB! We are privileged to have Ida Lorentzen as our guide)
VESTFOSSEN is a three-story gallery which offers three different exhibitions (there is a lift to all floors).
The top floor is devoted to Ida Lorentzen and Michael O’Donnell’s exhibition The Silence Afterwards. While Lorentzen mainly concentrates on paintings and drawings, O’Donnell’s production includes sculptures, installations, video works, and multi-media works. This is where we will begin our tour.
Everyone may then go down to the first floor, which shows the Mezzanine VKL-Collection (Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium). The VKL Collection ranges from works by artists of past generations who were central to Norwegian art history to works by younger and international artists.
On the ground floor, the exhibition Can’t See the Forest showcases works of trees, bushes, and other types of vegetation by 76 artists, mostly from Norway. Vestfossen was a pulp mill, and this floor is a wilderness of artworks. Ida Lorentzen’s husband, Ulf Nilsen, has a large painting on show which many of you will remember from our visit to his studio.
DATE/TIME: Thursday, June 11 at 10:15 (for 10:30) at the main gate
to Frognerparken
SIGN UP: By email to Ellen de Vreede
no later than June 5.
PLACE: Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Fabrikkgata 11C, 3320
Vestfossen.
PRICE: The entrance fee is NOK 80,- for seniors. The guiding is
free, but we charge you NOK 25,- for a gift to the guide. Please make your payment preferably by VIPPS to 591747 or pay by bank transfer to the Forum account: 160040 36631. Remember to state the event and your name in the dialogue box forVIPPS and in the KID-number box for bank payments.
TRANSPORT: We will organise a carpool from Frognerparken main gate
on Kirkeveien. Please let Ellen know if you can drive. It is about one hour from Oslo, and there is free parking. We are expected to be back in Oslo around 16:00.
How to Drive There:
Vestfossen is in Buskerud, between Drammen and Kongsberg. Take E18 to Drammen, then E134 towards Kongsberg. Follow the signs to Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium.
The Cellulose Cafe is located in the entrance hall to Vestfossen and serves sandwiches, salads, cakes, coffee, sodas, juices, and alcoholic beverages. We will book a table.
The maximum number of participants is 25.
Guests are welcome if space is available.
For last-minute cancellations, please call Ellen on mobile phone.