Magne News

Magne visits New York and Los Angeles

October 30, 2011

New York, October 20th
(Picture from naccusa.org)

Magne has been spending some time in the US recently. On October 20th he attended a gala luncheon at The Pierre Hotel in New York, held by The Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce, where Moods of Norway were presented with The Norwegian-American Trade Award. King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway were also present.

Moods of Norway, which has its own store in Los Angeles, has experienced success in the US and is planning another store in New York. Magne is currently on the board of directors of the clothing brand.

Some pictures of Magne with Simen Staalnacke and Stefan Dahlquist from Moods at the New York event can be seen at the NACC website here and here.

And on October 28th, Moods of Norway posted a picture on their Facebook page of Magne visiting the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles together with Simen and Stefan.

(From www.a-ha-live.com - Thanks Jacob S. for it)

Apparatjik concerts

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Magne in Germany

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Magne explains the cancellation of his "Futura Plus" exhibition

Here are some quotes from the interview:

"I sat there completely numb and glued to the TV screen for a week, inhaling the news about the unbelieveable tragedy at Utøya island and the government quarter. As I gradually started to think ahead, it became clear that it wouldn't be appropriate to hold my opening exhibition."

"Drawing from experiences which include my own hospitalizations, I have during this last year been creating works for an exhibition thematically linked to human frailty in general, and hospital settings specifically, with everything that entails of drama, suffering and helplessness. I don't want to make an exhibition which could be potentially upsetting in this situation."

For "Futura Plus", Magne had once again been collecting used bed sheets from various hospitals, to use as canvases.

"I'm not sure if this exhibition will ever be shown. We'll see."

"It is ironic that I'm opening my own gallery by cancelling my own exhibition. But that's the right thing to do now. The paintings have been important for me to create, but it's not important to show them now."

Magne has created the new gallery Stolper + Friends together with his UK gallerist Paul Stolper and the Norwegian gallerist Hugo Opdal, who lives at Flø.

"I haven't really harboured any ambitions to start my own gallery, but I have already been working with Stolper and Opdal for years, and when my previous gallery Trafo closed down last year the idea evolved naturally."

The gallery's opening exhibition will now be "The Souls" by Damien Hirst instead.

"The original plan was to show new works by Damien Hirst closer to Christmas, but now we had to do a quick turnaround, and it's very fitting to show the beautiful butterfly-series "The Souls", made in collaboration with Paul Stolper, where the butterfly symbolises, among other things, the journey and rebirth of the soul. It's a much more appropriate association right now", Magne says.

(From a-ha live.com)

New gallery in Oslo...

The great opening will be on September, 1st!