Artist: Marco Bruzzone
Exhibition title: GLUB CLUB (An Underwater Turmoil)
Venue: Entrée, Bergen, Norway
Date: June 21 – August 28, 2022
Photography: Mario de la Ossa / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Entrée, Bergen
Throughout the summer an underwater protest is silently taking place in the water of the sea around Bergen. It is meant to be experienced privately, in an immersive moment of resistance in the commodity exchange, away from everyday social pollution. It offers instead a place for meditation and healing where one can confront the self and the abyss or the abyss in the self. In this place overwhelmed by nature, humans are dethroned and brought to a subordinate role. The self-centred anthropocentrism of ordinary dialectics is here rather subverted, and gives space for a weightless contemplation.
Locations for the work whilst submerged in the sea have been outside Ubåt Press in Laksevåg, Bergen Architect School and Norway Fisheries Museum in Sandviken.
At view in the exhibition at Entrée are the extracted works, now changed by tides, algae, and other living organisms. In addition, Bruzzone presents his artist’s edition Ciao Mondo beach towel. The towels are an exclusive joint production between Entrée and Maiden Name.
Marco Bruzzone (b. 1974 in Genoa, Italy) lives and works in Berlin. His practice is rooted in the research of cultural histories. The research process often results in the generation of ideas, methods and applications that produce art. His work encompasses painting, sculpture, performance and installations. A formal lightness of touch, predilection for the ephemeral and the importance of humour are underlying principles of Marco Bruzzone’s work. His work is represented by London Gallery SUNDY.
Marco Bruzzone, GLUB CLUB (An Underwater Turmoil). Works in window from top to bottom; Untitled (Glub-Club, London Oslo Banner, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole), Untitled (Glub-Club, He:( :)lp! Banner, Ubåt Press), Untitled (Glub-Club, Get Over Yourself Banner, Ubåt Press), Untitled (Glub-Club, Établissement d’en Face Banner, Ubåt Press), Untitled (Glub-Club, Help! Help! Banner, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, each 195 x 48 cm. All photos by Mario de la Ossa
Marco Bruzzone, Untitled (Glub-Club, London Oslo Banner, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole), Untitled (Glub-Club, He:( :)lp! Banner, Ubåt Press), Untitled (Glub-Club, Get Over Yourself Banner, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, each 195 x 48 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (Glub-Club, He:( :)lp! Banner, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 195 x 48 cm
Marco Bruzzone, Untitled (Glub-Club, Help! Iilp!, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (Glub-Club, Help! Iilp!, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (Glub-Club, Help! Iilp!, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, Untitled (Glub-Club, Bag Sign:(, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (Glub-Club, Bag Sign:(, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (Glub-Club, Bag Sign:(, Ubåt Press), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, Untitled (Glub-Club, Dancing Algae, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (Glub-Club, Dancing Algae, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (Glub-Club, Dancing Algae, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (Glub-Club, Dancing Algae, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 264 x 215 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (IV Mussles, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 195 x 144 cm
Marco Bruzzone, Untitled (IV Mussles, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole) and Untitled (III Mussles, Fiskerimuseum), 2022, acrylic on canvas, each 195 x 144 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (III Mussles, Fiskerimuseum), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 195 x 144 cm
Marco Bruzzone, detail from Untitled (III Mussles, Fiskerimuseum), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 195 x 144 cm
Marco Bruzzone, GLUB CLUB (An Underwater Turmoil), Entrée, 2022
