Archival pigment print, UV-print on glass, frame included in the price

The work was part of the exhibition ‘mmmMarbles’, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo 2022.

In the project mmmMarbles, Espen Gleditsch photographed a specific group of works from the British Museum with a very specific provenance. His interest in how narratives about historical and contemporary events are established, conveyed, and legitimised, as well as his interest in classical sculpture, modernist architecture, museum spaces, and, not least, in colours and surfaces, come together in the series of works and the exhibition. The focal point is the Parthenon-frieze, photographed by Gleditsch at the British Museum. He continues his artistic exploration of a recurring misconception, dating back to the sixteenth century and the Renaissance, being that ancient sculpture and architecture were originally executed in pure, white, unpainted marble. Some of the works in the series have been given UV-printed glass in the colours white and blue, pointing to the idea and ideal of the white marble, but also to an original blue that has been found in a cavity on the marble frieze.

Ed. 1/5 acquired by the University of Oslo (Domus Bibliotheca).