The art of Terje Nicolaisen (*1964) strikes a fine balance between sincerity and mischievous irony. No More Jokes emphasises the former through works on paper that constitute a different vein of Nicolaisen’s production, otherwise renowned for conceptual works in the tradition of institutional critique or dealing with public space, always tongue in cheek. Nicolaisen’s skilled treatment of paper and pigment, most notably in portraits of characters both familiar and fictional, is abundantly presented in this first internationally published volume.
Tegneklubben is on the road to Trondheim, Bergen and Oslo this spring. In Trondheim we will engage with the collection of esteemed local painter Håkon Bleken to install a show at Trondheim Kunstmuseums Gråmølna
This show opens at 11th of March 2018
Later this spring we travel to Bergen to install another more spectacular show at Kunstgarasjen
Late summer we will do another show at Tegnerforbundet in Oslo
For an exhibition at Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall in Arendal, due to open 18th march 2017, Nicolaisen tries out yet another way of experimenting with the notion of the contemporary artist. An epiphany at the Prado museum in Madrid, in the hall of Goya's Black Paintings, sets of another search for the big Why.