_____.1001 FEELINGS YOU MUST FEEL BEFORE YOU DIE
_____.GALLERY PING-PONG, MALMÖ (SE) MAY 12 - JUN 02 2007
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of works / images NEW WORK BY TROND HUGO HAUGEN AT GALLERI PING-PONG 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die 1001 Places You Must See Before You Die 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die 1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die In the western world, the path to enlightenment became impossible to follow long ago. All the things we need to read, hear, see, and do limit us far more than they offer. The release of “1001 Feelings You Must Feel Before You Die, ISBN 978-82-996543-4-0 / noCUBE005” is a comment on the current state of things. In the gallery the viewer finds a box with small notecards, each marked with a word for one emotion. From the outside, the gallery appears nearly empty. Inside, the room is filled with 1001 feelings, and the gallery’s window becomes a picture of the world where these feelings exist, hold influence, and change. The work also has a function outside the gallery space. Through its unique ISBN, the work is searchable and is listed in book databases together with similar titles. In this way, the work becomes eternal. --- A PATCHWORK OF EMOTIONS They are everywhere – books that list 1001 things you need to have seen, tasted, experienced, or visited before you die. In his exhibition at Ping-Pong in Malmö Trond Hugo Haugen places the focus on feelings: “1001 Feelings You Must Feel Before You Die” (through June 2). The feelings are written on small notecards nailed to the walls, though speaking juridically the work is actually a sort of book, with an ISBN number and all. From the outside the notecards can hardly be seen; they sort of pull away from the observer, around the corner… Sure it’s simple, nearly too simple, but Haugen succeeds at raising questions about what it means to be human. Can one be considered complete having gone through life only experiencing a mass of positive emotions? Successful, happy, close… or MUST we have suffered through the darkness to have truly lived? Cursed, rotten, cold... How important is the negative, the difficult, in the whole? And at what point does this question divert from relevant thoughts about existance and become a childish romanticization of suffering? TOR BILLGREN Published in Sydsvenskan May 25 2007 Translated by Alison Gerber --- TROND HUGO HAUGEN VISAR ETT NYTT VERK PÅ GALLERI
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