Art Series – Werner Anderson

Pilgrim

Pilgrim is a poetic and thought-provoking art photo series that invites you to reflect on slowness, longing, freedom, presence and the healing power of nature. The photographs were created over several years on Werner’s travels in various landscapes around the world. Starting from monochrome photographs, the artist has colored with the colors of the sun mixed with gold, which in religious contexts can symbolize divine light, transcendence and perfection, but also idolatry and sin.

HERBARIUM

Inspired by my father’s school books and some old display cases from the 50s,

I have created art photographs of dead flowers and insects.
Do we continue to ignore other species, or has a new era come;

where knowledge gives respect to all life on earth?

No flowers,

no insects,

nothing.

SCAR

Scar is an art installation in two parts. The Utøya landscapes were photographed using a 360-degree panoramic camera and exposed on the legendary Kodak Aerochrome infrared film and on outdated black and white Polaroid materials.

The photographs from the Government Quarter show fragmented details of twisted steel from the wreck of the car that carried the bomb. The terror attack in 2011 is the backdrop as well as the motif in both cases, but the perspectives and the points of view are different. In this way, the artist encourages audiences to continue asking new questions in the public conversation about 22 July.

JAPAN

Melancholia

Nature and man. How are the two of us really doing? How is our relationship today?
Are we losing each other soon, or maybe it has already happened?
Do you also feel a Melancholy?

Observer

Once upon a time, a long time ago, an Observer came to our world. O only wanted to understand in its own way and for that it had one eye that could see what
was hidden from the rest of us. O found poetry, melancholy and small sprouts of hope. Hope that one day we would understand what we had and take good care of this.
The Observer was not naive, but sought understanding in its own way by looking more closely at what surrounds our reality, our incredible world
which is experienced so differently by us who inhabit it.

Panorama

Arctic Mood

Photographer Werner Anderson and musician and composer Brynjar Rasmussen have visited Svalbard repeatedly. They are deeply fascinated by this unique and contrasting archipelago, unlike anything found in mainland Norway, and have used it as a source of inspiration for new artistic exploration and expression. Northern Norway Jazz Centre has therefore commissioned a work by Rasmussen, which, together with Anderson’s photographs, forms a powerful performance built on Svalbard’s unique position as a hub for hunting, research, mining, and as a security-political arena. Their love and deep respect for the archipelago are conveyed through images, text, and sound sources, which together describe the different elements. The visual and artistic components are presented in a way that invites reflection, curiosity, and wonder.

They dig from the future back to the past. Using today’s modern space technology surrounding Longyearbyen, they unravel their way through the mine tunnels and into the trapper’s huts. They carve their own path in a frontal attack on the chronological history.

(Text excerpted from the foreword in the book Arctic Mood by Arne O. Holm)

Naken

No one is perfect, we all have a body, some take good care of it, others abuse it throughout their lives. The Polaroids are first photographed with an Instant Camera, then they are transferred to watercolor paper, before they are again photographed and enlarged many times up. This means that chemistry, dust and defects become very clear in the photographs of the partially deconstructed naked bodies.