Exhibitions

Aurora Passero
WARRIER GLOSS

4 August - 4 September 2011

At SOFT galleri the fall program starts off with Aurora Passeros first solo exhibition in Norway. In the span between sculpture and painting Passero works with site-specific installations. She gives tradition-oriented textile techniques like crochet, weaving and macrame an experimental form using non-traditional materials such as nylon, acrylic, wax, paint, plastic and plaster. These cross-over studies in technique and materiality produces abstract shapes and organic structures that emphasize the work`s inherent qualities such as artistic expression, form and vocabulary. Unusual juxtapositions of example, textile and plastics, wax and sand, the liquid and cemented, or the synthetic and natural creates contrasting textures that opens up new visual and tactile experiences. The material`s inherent characteristics and physical abilities are thus central to the understanding of Passeros work.

Aurora Passero (b. 1984) concludes master at the Department of Visual Arts at the Art Academy in Oslo in 2011. She has previously studied the field of textile at the Art Academy and the Glasgow School of Art, Dep. of Sculpture and Environmental Art. Passero has held solo exhibitions at Lindholmens Konsthall, Gothenburg, and has participated in group exhibitions in Norway and internationally, including at Freddy Knox Project Space/ Hillheadstreet Project Space, Glasgow and Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim.

Press Contact: Karianne Sand, dl@softgalleri.no, 47481770