Book Release & Collectible Book Sale
Saturday 21st march 14.00 - 18.00
Galleri Balder and Skeleton Key Press welcome you to a special event: a one-day only Open House in celebration of the release of Øyvind Hjelmen’s limited edition monograph, Moments Reflected. This beautifully printed hardbound book features 41 duotone plates and an essay by Lars Saabye Christensen. Øyvind will be present to sign books and visit with guests about his book. The new-to-Oslo publisher, Russell Joslin of Skeleton Key Press will also be present and will have copies his other titles available.
Galleri Balder will also be offering a unique selection of rare and collectible books with prints for sale.
The current exhibition, VINTAGE: A homage to analog photography and the magic of the darkroom, featuring works by Dag Alveng, Ole Buenget, Tom Sandberg, Herdis Maria Siegert, and Raymond Mosken, is also on view.
We welcome all lovers of photography and photography books to join us for this very special event!
In his second monograph, Norwegian photographer Øyvind Hjelmen welcomes viewers into his richly poetic and mysterious photographic world: Moments Reflected. Expanding on his portfolio of the same title by including works not previously published or exhibited, the lyrically sequenced and meticulously printed duotone plates presented in this volume are characterized by deep shadows, bursts of penetrating light, and the gauzy aesthetics often associated with analog photographs made using plastic or other low-tech cameras. Yet beyond Hjelmen’s command of craft and masterfully honed aesthetics, his enigmatic photographs maneuver slowly below the surface. It is on this subliminal level that the personal becomes universal and alludes to the human experiences of memory, fear, loss, sexuality, hope, nightmares, and doubt. As the widely celebrated Norwegian novelist Lars Saabye Christensen suggests in his essay that opens the book “. . . doubt is an artistic force. . . . Hjelmen’s viewpoint is never that of one who is absolutely certain, but of one who seeks.” Thusly, Moments Reflected endeavors to reward the intuitive and contemplative viewer/seeker as page-by-page the visually poetic narrative unfolds like a dream.
Books and Spesial Editions
Diane Arbus
Untitled, 1970-71
Portfolio Electa Editrice 1979.
Daido Moriyama
240 pages
Hardcover in a screen printed clamshell box
Editioned 20/100
Print
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10, Framed
Edition 40
Signed and numbered by the artist
Journey for Something offers an exciting overview of Moriyama's new work, as well as his classic images and some never-before-seen photographs that have been carefully selected by the artist for this volume. Many of Moriyama's photographs are shot with a hand-held camera, at times through a window or from across the street. Comprising an assortment of playful and almost surrealist images reproduced in large format, Journey for Something follows Moriyama from Tokyo to Osaka, from shimmering rows of nightclubs to shoes dangling from a telephone wire and a man running naked through the streets.
Daido Moriyama
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10, Framed
Edition 40
Signed and numbered by the artist
Nobuyoshi Araki: Self, Life, Death
Collector's Edition
Custom Cloth-Bound
720 pp
c. 400 col, 800 b&w illus.
Nobuyoshi Araki
Untitled (1997)
Silver gelatin print, Image size: 378 x 473 mm,
Printed in 2005 in an edition of 100. Signed and numbered by Araki
Takuma NAKAHIRA, photographer. "Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni" - "For a Language to Come." Japan: Fudosha, 1970, First Edition, PB, dj, 30 cm x 21 cm, 192pp, b/w photos.
Nakahira was one of the founders of the Provoke movement of Japanese photography. His blurred, distorted, dark, and depressing images capture the reality of a post Industrial Japan hurtling out of control. (Reference: Parr & Badger, Vol. 1, 292-293). As Kotaro Iizawo explains in The History of Japanese Photography, the aim of the enormously influential Provoke movement was to "rethink the rigidified relation between word and image, and to create 'new language, in short, new thought.'"
Galleri Balder and Skeleton Key Press welcome you to a special event: a one-day only Open House in celebration of the release of Øyvind Hjelmen’s limited edition monograph, Moments Reflected. This beautifully printed hardbound book features 41 duotone plates and an essay by Lars Saabye Christensen. Øyvind will be present to sign books and visit with guests about his book. The new-to-Oslo publisher, Russell Joslin of Skeleton Key Press will also be present and will have copies his other titles available.
Galleri Balder will also be offering a unique selection of rare and collectible books with prints for sale.
The current exhibition, VINTAGE: A homage to analog photography and the magic of the darkroom, featuring works by Dag Alveng, Ole Buenget, Tom Sandberg, Herdis Maria Siegert, and Raymond Mosken, is also on view.
We welcome all lovers of photography and photography books to join us for this very special event!
In his second monograph, Norwegian photographer Øyvind Hjelmen welcomes viewers into his richly poetic and mysterious photographic world: Moments Reflected. Expanding on his portfolio of the same title by including works not previously published or exhibited, the lyrically sequenced and meticulously printed duotone plates presented in this volume are characterized by deep shadows, bursts of penetrating light, and the gauzy aesthetics often associated with analog photographs made using plastic or other low-tech cameras. Yet beyond Hjelmen’s command of craft and masterfully honed aesthetics, his enigmatic photographs maneuver slowly below the surface. It is on this subliminal level that the personal becomes universal and alludes to the human experiences of memory, fear, loss, sexuality, hope, nightmares, and doubt. As the widely celebrated Norwegian novelist Lars Saabye Christensen suggests in his essay that opens the book “. . . doubt is an artistic force. . . . Hjelmen’s viewpoint is never that of one who is absolutely certain, but of one who seeks.” Thusly, Moments Reflected endeavors to reward the intuitive and contemplative viewer/seeker as page-by-page the visually poetic narrative unfolds like a dream.
Books and Spesial Editions
Diane Arbus
Untitled, 1970-71
Portfolio Electa Editrice 1979.
Daido Moriyama
240 pages
Hardcover in a screen printed clamshell box
Editioned 20/100
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10, Framed
Edition 40
Signed and numbered by the artist
Journey for Something offers an exciting overview of Moriyama's new work, as well as his classic images and some never-before-seen photographs that have been carefully selected by the artist for this volume. Many of Moriyama's photographs are shot with a hand-held camera, at times through a window or from across the street. Comprising an assortment of playful and almost surrealist images reproduced in large format, Journey for Something follows Moriyama from Tokyo to Osaka, from shimmering rows of nightclubs to shoes dangling from a telephone wire and a man running naked through the streets.
Daido Moriyama
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10, Framed
Edition 40
Signed and numbered by the artist
Nobuyoshi Araki: Self, Life, Death
Collector's Edition
Custom Cloth-Bound
720 pp
c. 400 col, 800 b&w illus.
Nobuyoshi Araki
Untitled (1997)
Silver gelatin print, Image size: 378 x 473 mm,
Printed in 2005 in an edition of 100. Signed and numbered by Araki
Takuma NAKAHIRA, photographer. "Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni" - "For a Language to Come." Japan: Fudosha, 1970, First Edition, PB, dj, 30 cm x 21 cm, 192pp, b/w photos.
Nakahira was one of the founders of the Provoke movement of Japanese photography. His blurred, distorted, dark, and depressing images capture the reality of a post Industrial Japan hurtling out of control. (Reference: Parr & Badger, Vol. 1, 292-293). As Kotaro Iizawo explains in The History of Japanese Photography, the aim of the enormously influential Provoke movement was to "rethink the rigidified relation between word and image, and to create 'new language, in short, new thought.'"