Max Andrews' text for Rasmus Nilausen's solo exhibition ‘Bluetooth’ at Copenhagen's Overgaden
Mon, Sep 16 2019
Rasmus Nilausen, ‘Better Half’ (2019), oil on linen, 160x130cm. Photo: Roberto Ruiz. Courtesy: the artist.
‘Bluetooth® is a two-way digital wireless standard that enables the exchange of information between computers, mobile phones, and other peripherals such as keyboards and headphones. For Rasmus Nilausen, painting is a technology that connects the communicative assets of drawing, writing, speaking, reading, and looking. The range of both protocols is typically less than 10 m. Could we mandate the capabilities of Nilausen-enabled devices, along with their encoding and specifications? Since around 2000, oil pigment on linen has provided Nilausen’s most widely adopted attributes and colour space. It has transmitted information and provided connectivity using the following parameters: idioms and fruits, vegetables and eyeballs, tongues and images, fingers and candles, sense and habits, nonsense and perspective, old masters and young slaves.’
—Max Andrews
The exhibition is on view until November 24, 2019.
Rasmus Nilausen, ‘Historie’ (2019), oil on linen, 40x50cm. Courtesy: the artist.
→ RELATED CONTENTS:
- Latitudes' writing archive.
- Essay for the publication ‘Rasmus Nilausen. Soups & Symptoms. Paintings 2011–16’, Ajuntament de Barcelona (2016).
- Publication spreads with photographs by Roberto Ruiz.
- Publication launch, 26 October 2016.
- ‘Thinking like a drainage basin’ essay by Latitudes in the catalogue of the exhibition ‘Lara Almarcegui. Béton’ 8 April 2019.
- "The Kørner problem” essay by Max Andrews in the monograph "John Kørner" published by Roulette Russe 19 February 2018
- Curators: ‘Compositions’, Barcelona Gallery Weekend, various locations, Barcelona, 1–4 October 2015.
- Photos of the intervention "Vera Icon" by Rasmus Nilausen and Pere Llobera at the former house of a priest, Gardens of La Central Bookstore. Part of "Composiciones" a series of artists’ commissions for the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October 2015. Curated by Latitudes.
