Unusual Art from a Saami artist. (Weekly Photo Challenge)
This week WordPress wants us to: “Share a picture that means UNUSUAL to you!” So, I decided to present my readers to the Norwegian Saami artist Gjert Rognli. It’s not an understatement to claim that Gjert Rognli’s art is unusual: unusual & original, just like the artist himself. Here’s a short presentation and some of his photos:
Gjert Rognli is multimedia artist and has in recent years worked with theater productions and television productions as well as his own short films, photography and video. He has been represented at several film festivals and exhibition both home and abroad.
Shocking, brutal and provocative, with powerful tools such as nudity, blood, brutal representations of animals and birds that are crucified, the Saami artist created a lot of attention for his exhibition The Forgotten Place.
A photo entitled “Chasing Dreams”, which is included in the exhibition, got an “honorable mention” in Photographer’s Forum magazine, a highly recognized photography magazine in the U.S., the photograph will also be published in a table book format in the United States in the book Best of Photography 2011.
Gjert Rognli’s next exhibition is held at Artista Galleri Cafè in Sandvika between 29th of March (opening at 18:00) – 29th of April 2012.
All photos in this article: Gjert Rognli.
Not to be reproduced without permission of the author.
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Absolutely amazing pictures. Thought provoking and ‘fantastical’!
March 17, 2012 at 19:51
The artist himself is also fantastic. We were in the same graphic arts class years ago.
March 17, 2012 at 21:43
Interesting and unusual for sure.
March 17, 2012 at 19:55
Yes, I am looking forward to his exhibition.
March 17, 2012 at 21:45
Wow – absolutely love this guy’s work
March 17, 2012 at 20:17
Me too.
March 17, 2012 at 21:46
Thats unusual.
March 17, 2012 at 20:40
Perfectly unusual for this weeks photo challenge
March 17, 2012 at 21:47
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Certainly eye catching. I particularly like the red stream. This is a two button job in most image editors but of course you need the imagination to push the buttons.
March 17, 2012 at 21:16
I’ll reveal a secret:
1. Go to Gjert’s website at http://home.no/gjert
2. Click on “Fine Arts” and then “Film”.
Now do you still think it’s a “two button image editing job”?
March 17, 2012 at 21:27
Fantastic in every sense! Great post.
March 17, 2012 at 22:14
Glad you like it.
March 18, 2012 at 07:09
I’m good with the blood and nudity….wouldn’t be able to handle animal brutality. The second photo above has me captivated.
March 18, 2012 at 00:18
I’m good with nudity too – most Scandinavians are. When it comes to “animal brutality” in his exhibitions we’re talking about stuff like a picture of a crucified bird, a crucified bird that is already dead of course, so it’s not being harmed in any way.
Antibiotic overfed chickens doomed to live in some industrial scale farm, are much worse off.
March 18, 2012 at 07:26
What a cool header Cardinal!
March 18, 2012 at 01:15
Thanks, as you can see I made it from one of Gjert Rognli’s photos.
March 18, 2012 at 07:29
Thank you for referring my entry!
March 18, 2012 at 05:21
And which entry would that be?
March 18, 2012 at 07:32
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March 19, 2012 at 09:03
HOLY SMOKE!
March 18, 2012 at 15:33
Very Unusual and wow!. Love seeing the faces in the second one.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
March 18, 2012 at 17:41
Glad you like the photos. You should come see his exhibition
March 19, 2012 at 16:53
Unusual is an understatement! This is pushing the envelope creative, and provacative. Some of the pieces I find it to be both genius and disturbing all at the same time – which I suspect may be part of the author’s intent. IMO, I will be honest and say I not like the idea of either antibiotic overfed chickens nor sacrificing the animal and using its blood for art. My opinion, as indicated.
I went to the link in your response to the two-button comment above and viewed ‘Behind the Silverwidths’. This is far beyond only two buttons. Probably more like hundreds if not thousands.
Having said all that, this is probably the most unusual post in the ‘unusual’ category that I have seen so far.
March 18, 2012 at 17:50
Let me first say that the animals are not sacrificed, they are already slaughtered and/or roadkill. No animals are being harmed in the process.
Thanks for this elaborate comment
I am sure that the artist will be very flattered by your comment, and I am glad that you took the opportunity to watch his video and get a glimpse of the work & the planning that is actually put into that photo.
It’s definitely more than a “two-button process”
I agree with you that this is the most unusual post in the ‘unusual’ category – at least from what I have seen so far.
March 19, 2012 at 21:25
Wow! Great stuff here……. love the variety an the “unusual-ness” too!
March 19, 2012 at 00:16
Thanks for commenting Andrea. I’m glad you like Gjert’s art.
March 20, 2012 at 19:18
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The photos are startling. They make you really want to look.
March 19, 2012 at 16:01
Yes, I hope to see a lot of new works on his exhibition.
March 20, 2012 at 19:20
Very unusual….and i like them all
March 19, 2012 at 16:50
Very unusual indeed
March 20, 2012 at 19:20
Nice one. These certainly are unusual, all right.
Please feel free to drop by and view my interpretation of Unusual, admittedly a much plainer unusual.:
https://fstopfantasy.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/weekly-photo-challenge-unusual-ant-hills/
March 19, 2012 at 19:25
Here you can see a couple more of Gjert’s unusual art:
http://www.blikk.no/kultur/item/8273-postmoderne-i-sameland
http://www.utropia.no/?p=8626
The articles are written in Norwegian, but the photos speak a universal language.
March 20, 2012 at 19:47
Thanks. I only saw the one photo on that page of the naked man with the reindeer (or something) head.
March 21, 2012 at 03:36
Fantastic artwork! Quite bold too.
March 22, 2012 at 09:20