[May 11th 2002]
press release

The leisure club MOGADISHNI presents Tor-Magnus Lundeby (Norway) with the exhibition A different state of 808 island

Exhibition: Friday, May 17 - June 16, 2002
Reception: Friday, May 17, 7-11pm

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

The leisure club MOGADISHNI is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tor-Magnus Lundeby in Denmark. Lundeby will present two installations in the exhibition which is intitled A different state of 808 island.

The imagination prevailing in Tor-Magnus Lundeby's visual world is wide-ranging and motifs can be derived from such disparate sources as TV games and astronomy. He also oscillates between figuration and non-figuration as, for example, when he has Star Wars meet Skansen's terrarium.

The titles are often borrowed from song titles and record jackets. The technique of using brush pens and compasses harks back to a boy's room. The aesthetic, in fact, recalls Tor-Magnus Lundeby`s own childhood during the late '60s and early '70s in its colourfulness and decorative clarity, hedonism and escapism.

One of his large marker drawings, Monstropolis from 1998, looks from a distance like a monster's face, but closer up is revealed to be a detailed map of a gigantic city.

Although Tor-Magnus Lundeby's perspective often seems to be from outer space, his paintings have elements of private, inner pictures.

- "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."
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Tor-Magnus Lundeby is exhibiting at the Pontevedra Biennal in Spain in July. For more information check out www.mogadishni.com

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