MARIUS ENGH

"The archaeology of form, the idea implied in the various objects around us, the time that gives places their spirit, that history that defines its course and destiny – this is the idea of archaeology that Marius Engh reveals to us in his work. 

Engh especially uses two expressive media to communicate it to us: photography and sculpture. These two expressive channels summarise different stages in the research whereby Marius Engh speaks to us about history, anthropology, modernism and social semiotics. […]

This mode leads the artist, through interpretation of the meanings, and functions that objects have inherited over time, towards the attainment of their essential form. In this way, the object is stripped of all acquired superstructures and the form manages to contain the concept of nothing, thereby providing us a reflection of the systematic and standardised aspects of daily life. Observers therefore find themselves faced by pure form that has lost the characteristic of giving or withholding information, becoming an abstract concept and synthesis of itself and opening out in this way to a series of different and diversified interpretations that re-adapt the reality to which the object refers."

Stefania Palumbo: "The Archeology of Form", from Engh, Marius: "An Aggregation of Adversary", Torpedo Press, Oslo, 2011

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