Tone Vigeland is an international figure central to recent Norwegian art history. As a jewellery artist, she has occupied a special position since the end of the 1950s. In the mid-nineties, for the first time, she exhibited works that were independent of the body as ‘bearer’ of the objects and which were instead self-bearing as free-standing sculptural objects. In the 2014 festival exhibition, “Muster”, Vigeland took her sculptural activities into a hitherto unexplored format for her. The sculptures in this exhibition are closely related to a kind of encompassing installation art, where each space is dominated by a single, fully cut work with dimensions directly related to the scale of the architecture.
This publication was created for the exhibition and features an insightful new interview with the artist, conducted by Mai Lahn-Johannessen during the show’s preparation at Vigeland’s home and studio in Oslo. The book has been elegantly designed by Petri Henriksson at Blank Blank, Berlin.