18th Street Arts Center

Visiting Artist Kristian Skylstad and his gallery in Oslo, Norway known as “NoPlace” has organized an all Norwegian-artist exhibition entitled Calma Maria Magdelena. The show will debut in Kristian’s studio (1629 18th Street, studio # 3) on December 21, 2011 from 8pm-11pm. The exhibition is a constellation of artists from different segments of the art world in Norway. What the artists have in common is that they don’t have much in common with other artists. In that sense you could say that each and every one of them represents themselves and have a subjective approach to art, which is related to their emotions and fragments of their geographies. This is a very common method in Norwegian art, music and literature that has roots in the isolation the weather and Norway’s regional placement on the planet forces the mental sphere into. By showing these personal mysteries in the more open minded Los Angeles art scene, NoPlace hopes the friction between the pieces will create an energetic counteraction that will end up as a vague but powerful question: “How to talk about the big silence?” For more information on the participating artists in this exhibition visit: http://www.noplace.no/