Marius Engh
21 Feb - 29 Mar 2008
MARIUS ENGH
"Lycanthropic Chamber"
21.02.-29.03.2008
PREVIEW: 21.02.2008 / 19.00-21.00 /
SCENE I & SCENE II
“Homo Sum; Nihil humani a me alienum puto”. [“I am a man; Nothing human is alien to me.”]
- Terentius (185 – 159 BC), “Heauton Timoroumenos”
“In vain he attempted to speak; from that very instant
His jaws were bespluttered with foam, and only he thirsted
For blood, as he raged amongst flocks and panted for slaughter.
His vesture was changed into hair, his limbs became crooked;
A wolf, he retains yet large trace of his ancient expression,
Hoary he is as afore, his countenance rabid,
His eyes glitter savagely still, the picture of fury.”
- Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD), “Metamorphoses”
“We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to study.... The second class of instincts was not so easy to point to; in the end we came to recognize sadism as its representative. On the basis of theoretical considerations, supported by biology, we put forward the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state; on the other hand, we supposed that Eros ... aims at complicating life and at the same time, of course, at preserving it. Acting in this way, both the instincts ... would be endeavouring to re-establish a state of things that was disturbed by the emergence of life. The emergence of life would thus be the cause of the continuance of life and also at the same time of the striving towards death; and life itself would be a conflict and compromise between these two trends.”
- Sigmund Freud, “The Ego and the Id”, 1923
This is Marius Engh's second solo exhibition at STANDARD (OSLO). Other recent exhibitions include "Streets Beyond the Clichй" at Witte de With, "Villa Jelmini" at Kunsthalle Bern, "The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial" at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo and "Skate Culture" at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen / Preus Museum, Horten.
"Lycanthropic Chamber"
21.02.-29.03.2008
PREVIEW: 21.02.2008 / 19.00-21.00 /
SCENE I & SCENE II
“Homo Sum; Nihil humani a me alienum puto”. [“I am a man; Nothing human is alien to me.”]
- Terentius (185 – 159 BC), “Heauton Timoroumenos”
“In vain he attempted to speak; from that very instant
His jaws were bespluttered with foam, and only he thirsted
For blood, as he raged amongst flocks and panted for slaughter.
His vesture was changed into hair, his limbs became crooked;
A wolf, he retains yet large trace of his ancient expression,
Hoary he is as afore, his countenance rabid,
His eyes glitter savagely still, the picture of fury.”
- Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD), “Metamorphoses”
“We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous and accessible to study.... The second class of instincts was not so easy to point to; in the end we came to recognize sadism as its representative. On the basis of theoretical considerations, supported by biology, we put forward the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state; on the other hand, we supposed that Eros ... aims at complicating life and at the same time, of course, at preserving it. Acting in this way, both the instincts ... would be endeavouring to re-establish a state of things that was disturbed by the emergence of life. The emergence of life would thus be the cause of the continuance of life and also at the same time of the striving towards death; and life itself would be a conflict and compromise between these two trends.”
- Sigmund Freud, “The Ego and the Id”, 1923
This is Marius Engh's second solo exhibition at STANDARD (OSLO). Other recent exhibitions include "Streets Beyond the Clichй" at Witte de With, "Villa Jelmini" at Kunsthalle Bern, "The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial" at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo and "Skate Culture" at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen / Preus Museum, Horten.