[May 11th 2002]

Tor-Magnus Lundeby Plugged to your heart forever: 3rd version, 2002 (installation)

The leisure club MOGADISHNI is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tor-Magnus Lundeby in Denmark Lundeby will present two installations, entitled A different state of 808 island. The following is a text written by the artist, presenting some of his work and some of the ideas behind it.

The leisure club MOGADISHNI
Artillerivej 40 house 9 stair b floor 4
DK 2300 Copenhagen S
Tel +45 32543535
fax +45 32543535
mail@mogadishni.com
www.mogadishni.com
May17th to June 16th, 2002.

press release

Imagine there's a site somewhere
by artist Tor-Magnus Lundeby

I love inventing sites. They mainly appear in paintings and drawings as pure imaginative sketches and views, sometimes more detailed like an architect's plan drawing or some construction of an engineer on acid (prof. Balthazar). Other times they are more ambient like a view from above or of the sky. Music can be such a trigger for these imaginations, and I have so far, in titles, related a lot of my works to the widely including electronic music genre. Later on I have used more nature linking titles though they are often spiced with more text samples from the electronic music menu. The closest I've been to making a real site, is the site specific show at Moderna Museet Projekt (MMP) in Stockholm early 2000. "Loony in the Sky with DJs - extended remix installation" is the title of a fictive visual record shop dedicated the DJ-culture. The installation was a remix compilation of an earlier painting called "Loony in the Sky with DJs". The different parts / tracks varied more or less from the original painting, which also was included in the space. A catalog from the exhibition was released in February 2001 and includes a text written by Jesper Jørgensen from 1%, Copenhagen. There is also a 4-pages cover of the exhibition in NU- The Nordic Art Review - nr2, 2000.


Tor-Magnus Lundeby DJ Aguar Loony (from the new robots), 2001 (maleri)

L'avenueTM is a fantasy site, an avenue for sculptures. This name is not a pseudonym for me as an artist, even though it is a wordplay on Lundeby, T-M. But it is used in naming my sculptures as the beginning of the title and with a serial number at the end like f.ex. HO.TEL 02.

Finally I am proud to present a release of one of my paintings on Bungalow Records' web-site www.bungalow.de . "Bungalow Street 1-15: House Editon: Bung 088.1", can be found at the web-site's front page under the square called "specials". The painting is a very abstracted view from a small village street of sixteen bungalows, where - at the left side of the street - one house is almost like the next one. The painting is divided into eight monochromes and the colors are matching the record label's logo. Bung 088 is the catalog number like all the music releases on the Berlin based label. My love for the bungalows as dream sites origined some months before I discovered the record labels releases. For the exhibition "Spacehousebungalows"at T19-Gallery in Vienna, I made a smaller edition called "Bungalow Street 1-15: Garage Edition: Bung 088.2".

Tor-Magnus Lundeby, Helsinki, December 2000.