Matias Faldbakken, Newspaper Ad #14, 2007 and Gardar Eide Einarsson, Liberty, 2007
Gardar Eide Einarsson and Matias Faldbakken will participate in 'The Secret (Still) Knows', an exhibition organized by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) taking place from 10 July to 16 August at LAB, in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Curated by Shamim M. Momin, Curator and Director, LAND, the project asked over fifty artists to consider Robert Frost's quote, 'We dance round in a ring and propose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows', when producing new work for the exhibition. Other participating artists are Pierre Bismuth, Terence Koh and Nate Lowman.
The participation of Gardar Eide Einarsson and Matias Faldbakken within 'The Secret (Still) Knows' at Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) is supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
Matias Faldbakken (b.1973, Hobro, Denmark, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) is a graduate of The Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, Norway, and Staatliche Hochshule für Bildende Künste, Städelshcule, Frankfurt am Main. Recent exhibitions include 'The HHills', STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo; 'You Think You Go But You Gon't', Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp; 'Extreme Siesta' at Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 'Shocked into Abstraction' the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; 'Matias Faldbakken', Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY; 'The Way of the Bummer', Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (2008) and 'Empty Glass', Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (2008).
Gardar Eide Einarsson (born 1976 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in New York, NY, USA) makes works that uses a particular stylistic approach to highly charged source material. He works in a range of media from painting to text works and from light boxes to installation. Gardar Eide Einarsson has had solo exhibitions at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2010); Frankfurter Kunstverein (2007); Sorry, We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium (2007), Nils Stærk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2006), Team Gallery, New York, USA (2005) and Marres Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2004). His work has been exhibited at venues such as P.S.1., New York, USA; Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (both 2006); CCA Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey (both 2005); Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden (2004); Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2003); and Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (2001). The artist is currently exhibiting within the 17th Biennale of Sydney – 'The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age'.