Marcorossi artecontemporanea is pleased to present the exhibition Resound with an echo (curated by Walter Guadagnini): a solo show by Rune Guneriussen, a young Norwegian artist who works with the medium of photography, open March 19 through May 2 in the gallery in Milan.

Guneriussen’s work is characterised by a sort of transition between photography and installation, in which photography represents the point of arrival. A conceptual artist, Guneriussen produces site-specific works located primarily in natural settings; he has combed all of Norway to locate his sites since 2005. These are not just simple photographs, but large-scale sculptures and installations created in a complex process involving the subject, its history, the space around it, and time. Photography represents the end point of this procedure: the condensation of a creative process on multiple levels. The work is produced on the site, in total solitude, in the context of an unusual, wild landscape. The natural surroundings play two roles: they are both the subject of and the frame for installations created out of everyday objects. Guneriussen places his lamps, books, telephones and chairs in the rarefied silence of the Norwegian countryside. The process ends with his photograph of the installation, an analogue photograph produced without digital post-production. The final effect is a fascinating combination of nature and objects in which the latter come to life, giving up their connotations as man-made objects, dominating the scene and becoming as eternal and unchanging as the natural elements around them, transforming a natural landscape into something out of a fairy-tale. Heading in the opposite direction from today’s most common trends, the artist does not want to dictate how his work should be interpreted. Guneriussen simply leaves traces against the background of a reality rich in subtleties, on the edge of the balance between nature and human culture.

Rune Guneriussen, born 1977, in Norway. Education from Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England. Lives and works in eastern Norway. Works in the transition between installation and photography. As a conceptual artist he works site specific, primarily in nature. The work on objects started in 2005, and has been photographed on locations all over Norway.

It is not as much photography as it is about sculpture and installation. The long oneman work on an largescale installation is a process triggering the artistic genom. This process involves the object, story, space and most important the time it is made within. It is an approach to the balance between nature and human culture, and all the sublevels of our own excistence. The work is made solely on site, and the photographs represents the reality of the installation itself.

As an artist he believes strongly that art itself should be questioning and bewildering as opposed to patronising and restricting. As opposed to the current fashion he does not want to dictate a way to the understanding of his art, but rather indicate a path to understanding a story.