Oude kerk 2011, exhibition opening Friday 21.01 Amsterdam
January 19, 2011
The works selected for the exhibition in the Oude Kerk. Geir Nustad developed a new visual language in the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, combining his experience as a craftsman, being trained in Kosta Glass center (Scandinavia’s most renowned Glass School), with new and refreshing ideas on how we experience Society. In his installation ‘Burned City’, he reflects on how we have come from a hunter -, collector society to a modern consumer society, surrounded by mass production. He created an abstract city, combining burned wood and several glass houses. He chose to burn the wood to make the contrast in the change in society stronger, the way we pollute the planet and poison our self. Several houses are made in the grail technique with petro glyphs (cave-inspired drawings) while others remain in clear or colored glass.
