Lina Viste Grønli's new work is a selection of sculptural-cultural appropriation involving twigs and chewed gum. This is her first solo presentation in Norway in five years.

Lina Viste Grønli (b. 1976 in Bergen) grew up in Stavanger and currently lives and works on the East Coast of the United States. Her work engages language, semiotics, and sculptural strategies. She explores collective references and challenges conceptual understanding. Grønli has exhibited at a number of renowned institutions for contemporary art in Norway and internationally, including Sculpture Center, NYC; Marres Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht; WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels; Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo; List Visual Art Center, Cambridge; Performa 09 and 13, NYC; Henie Onstad Art Center, Bærum; and Kunsthall Stavanger.

Branches is a suite for recorders—tenor, alto, soprano, and sopranino—in five short movements. It was composed for the opening of Lina Viste Grønli’s exhibition Nye skulpturer at Entrée, and the music responds to the work in that show: The sculptures are assemblages of branches and chewing gum that resemble wooden flutes, hence the recorders. In addition, the opening notes in the first movement are based upon the word ‘branch’ (in which, happily, the name ‘Bach’ is nested), and almost all of the pitch material in the rest of the piece is derived—branches out—from this opening figure.

/Peter Child

Peter Child is a composer and Professor of Music at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA.

The piece is performed by Patricia Michlits.
Recorded by Arve Stigen/Duper Studio.

//Norsk//

Lina Viste Grønlis nye arbeider er et utvalg skulpturell kulturell appropriasjon av kvister og tygget tyggegummi. Dette er hennes første solopresentasjon i Norge på fem år.

Lina Viste Grønli (f. 1976 i Bergen) er oppvokst i Stavanger og har de siste årene bodd og jobbet på østkysten av USA. Arbeidene hennes har en dyp forankring i språk, semiotikk og skulpturelle problemstillinger. Hun utforsker kollektive referanser og utfordrer vår begrepsforståelse. Grønli har stilt ut på en rekke anerkjente visningsarenaer for samtidskunst i Norge og internasjonalt, slik som Sculpture Center, NYC; Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht; Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussel; Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo; List Visual Art Center, Cambridge; Performa 09, NYC; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Bærum; og Kunsthall Stavanger.