Stellar Core

source: artslant

Jone Kvie (b. 1971, Stavanger, Norway)

When large celestial bodies are moved into the gallery space for beholding and scrutiny, human desire to make nature subject to measurements and empirical findings are brought into focus. In Kvies works this scientific approach is given equal status to the romantic idea of the sublime, in which man is overwhelmed by a feeling of impotence in the meeting with nature. Jone Kvie is repeatedly able to convey this dualism in his works in which insistence on and analysis of corporeal phenomenons reveal them as mysterious and enigmatic.

There is a striking discrepancy between the large sculptures and the viewer, who seems incomparably small in relation. This discrepancy emphasizes the experience of the work, which thematizes mans fear, powerlessness and fascination with phenomenons he cannot control. Confronted with Jone Kvies sculptures, the viewer fails to control the object and is caught in an experience extended between the finite and the infinite.

Education: Academy Of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway, 1995-97. Vestlandets Art Academy, Bergen, Norway, 1993-95.
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source: telenor

Jone Kvie was born in 1971 in Norway. He lives and works in Sweden.

Kvie graduated from the academies of fine art in Oslo and Bergen, Norway.

His work is inspired by, and contains references to, a broad range of diverse subjects, including nature and the natural sciences, film, media and entertainment culture, everyday life and art history. This content is transformed by the artist into sculptures and objects cast in traditional materials such as bronze, steel and aluminium.