One of my favorites; A series of interconnected caravan campers to be driven around to main events in the art world. A street museum.
Due to insufficient economy and support
Hei came up with a beautiful project, a peep-show installation
A real museum, full of details, like heat, skylight and lighting suggestions
After a rather insisting follow up he came up with an idea
His work (and Name) has been of great influence, maybe even the start-of for all of this MACEB project.
I dreamt up a scenario were I met him in Düsseldorf. The outcome is an artist book.
In his house in Kisko, Finland, he drew the museum with a pencil
As Ben Frija, the eminent art dealer later pointed out, I should have sent the letter with UPSpersonal Delivery to reach such a busy artist.
Jeg er tiltrukket av teateret som mulighet, men ser ikke helt hvordan jeg skal kunne bruke det. Det er bra.
"Jeg har som sagt hørt mye på dette albumet, og jeg må bare si at jeg elsker det tvers igjennom. For her er snakker vi utvilsomt om en helstøpt artist og låtskriver som fortjener et langt større navn enn det han allerede har – omså «bare» grunnet denne fabelaktige utgivelsen"
The Wilhelmsens
"Among Norwegian artists, Terje Nicolaisen is a master of just that (making conversation pieces). He works with, among other things, drawing, painting, music, performance and text, and his artistry is characterized by a huge creative excess and an almost unstoppable inspiration. Weird, freely thought-out stories, free-form thought images. In a way, he's so close to being a classic romantic artist in our time".
Marianne Heier
The cover looks great – the music, completely and utterly over the top in terms of artistic suicide. This here must be Terje's way of telling art "you can't fire me – I quit"
—Tidens Krav / Financé
Tegneklubben (The Drawing Club) is a collaborative artist collective consisting of Paul Dring, Terje Nicolaisen, Ulf Carlsson, Martin Skauen and Bjørn Bjarre.
Mattew Barney you should spend some time at home.
Learn the kids and learn the lingo foam.
The your wife could make some really nice work,
Stay out late, roll around the dirt…