Neon Guides Me presents an index of artist Anne Katrine Senstad’s light and space practice with essays by acclaimed composers, authors, art historians and curators
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NEON GUIDES ME presents an index of New York based Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad’s monumental light and space practice with international, museum and institutional installations. The book examines philosophic, aesthetic, critical and architectural dimensions of the artists world on light and color through exquisite photographic documentation and texts. The series of ethereal, spatial light sculpture works presented in the book, from the series ELEMENTS I-V, were created between 2018 – 2021, and include enveloping sound environments by Senstad’s collaborators; the acclaimed Australian-American composer, musician and producer, JG Thirlwell (ELEMENTS IV-VI) and legendary polymath Catherine Christer Hennix (ELEMENTS III BLUE). The composers are also contributors to NEON GUIDES ME.
The book includes texts by:
- JG Thirlwell in conversation with media writer Patrick Rolandelli (US)
- Late composer, philosopher, scholar, author/poet and mathematician Catherine Christer Hennix (1948-2023), (SWE)
- Sarah Walko, author, visual artist and curator (US)
- Marianne Solberg, author, literary critic and social-political anthropologist (NO)
- Art Historian Erik Meling (NO)
- Andres Kurg, Professor of Architectural History and Theory,Tallinn School of Art, Estonia (EE)
- Sanna Karimaki-Nuutinen, Director, Seinajoki Kunsthall Finland, (FI)
- Art historian, curator, author and philosopher Dr Aura Seikkula.(FI)
Contributing photography: Sarah Bauwens (BE), SHAO Yi (CHN), Samuli Kuusisto (FI), Anne Katrine Senstad
The publication of Neon Guides Me and/or the artworks in the book have been made possible with support from Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Arts Council Norway Governmental Grant for Artists, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Kunst og Ny Teknologi, Norske Billedkunstnere BKV, Fritt Ord, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Emily Harvey Foundation New York and Venice
- 144 pages, Hardcover
- 6 color offset, edition of 600
- Printing and binding: Rotolito S.p.A. / Nava Press S.r.l., Milan, 2022
- Designed and published by Praun & Guermouche, Sweden.
- ISBN 978-91-527-1427-0
NEON GUIDES ME is.represented in the following libraries, collections and institutions:
- The Museum of Modern Art Archives, Library, and Research Collections
- The National Museum of Norway’s Library collection
- The National Library of Norway
- The Musea Brugge Library serving 13 museums in Bruges, Belgium
- Nordnorsk Kunst Senter Library, Svolvær, Norway
- Artica’s Library in Longyearbyen, Svaldbard, Norway – the northernmost library in the world
- Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University – Art, Architecture and Ancient World Libraries, UK
- Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York
- The New York Public Library’s Photography, Art and Prints collection
- Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
- The Haas Arts Library, Yale School of Art at Yale University, New Haven
- The Bobst Library, NYU, New York
- Libraries at MIT, Cambridge, MA
- School of Visual Art Library, New York
- The Marquand Library, Princeton University, NJ
- Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Sachsische Landesbibliotek Staats und Universitetsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany
- The Great Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
- Libraries at The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Jafet Library. The American University in Beirut, Lebanon
- The Reed Foundation Library at the Poets House, New York
- Neon Orleans Museum of Neon Art, New Orleans, LA
- Hachioji Library at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
- Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- Centre for International Light Art, Germany
Book Fairs, talks and exhibitions:
- Neon Guides Me Book release Event and exhibition, panel talk with composer JG Thirlwell, art critic Tom McGlynn and Anne Katrine Senstad. Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, 2022
- Neon Guides Me book release talk, Anne Katrine Senstad and curator Simon Thykjær, Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark, February 14th, 2023
- Neon Guides Me book release event and talk, Anne Katrine Senstad and Norwegian curator and artist Per Hess, Galleri Balder, Oslo, Norway, February 26th, 2023
- Explosive Vision, exhibition, organized by Black Iris in conjunction with Stockholm Art Week, May 13, 2023
- CHART Art Fair – Chart Book Fair, Copenhagen, Aug 24-27, 2023
- The Swedish Photography Foundation Photobook Fair, October 27-28, 2023
- High Desert Art Fair, Joshua Tree, California with MOMENTUM, February 24-25, 2024
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Artist book: HYPERBOREA – Anne Katrine Senstad, 2020
Published on the occasion of Senstad’s solo exhibition Hyperborea at Freight & Volume Gallery, New York, January 5th – February 10, 2020. The 150 page soft-cover book, examines Senstad’s multifaceted practice across time and methodology. The book presents her work in experimentation, light, color and and multi-projection installations, site specific interventions, sculpture and photo-based work, and her critical work. The book serves as prelude to an in-depth survey on her practice.
Texts by Sarah Walko, Celina Jeffery, Nick Lawrence. Designed by John Gross. Published by Freight & Volume Gallery. 150 pages. edition of 100, numbered.
Exhibition catalogue: Trans / Essence – Uj Kriterion Gallery, 2020
Trans / Essence was published on the occasion of Senstad’s solo exhibition at Uj Kriterion Gallery, in Miercurea Ciue, Transylvania, Romania, curated by Botond Reszegh. The exhibition as survey, presented Senstad’s photographic works on light, color, and space – the phenomena of perception and the sensorial realms through lens based art, from 1997 – 2017.
Texts by Gary Snyder, Anne Katrine Senstad. Published by Bookart, Romania. Edited by Hajdu Aron. Designed by Botond Resszegh. 34 pages, softcover. In English, Hungarian and Romanian.
Exhibition Catalogue: The Pink Project – Anne Katrine Senstad, 2007
Published on the occasion of Senstad’s two city solo exhibition Light Writes Always in Plural, presenting large scale mural photographic works that examine the aesthetic and perceptual properties of light and color. The two solo shows were held at Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, New York and Houston Center for Photography, Texas, in 2007.
Texts by:Joseph Albers: Color – Juxtaposition – Harmony – Quality, from Albers book Interaction of Color (The Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation/Artist Rights Society, New York), Gary Snyder: Anne Katrine Senstad: Recent work, Birgitte Schiøth: Essence of Color, Duben Canales: Naked Light.
Designed by Pure and Applied New York, Printed: Valdres Trykkeri, Norway, 64 pages, softcover.
Exhibition catalogue: Light Color Sound – Anne Katrine Senstad, 2003
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Anne Katrine Senstad – Matthew Abbott, Transient, New York, 2003
Light Color Sound includes a text by Tracey Hummer. Designed by Anthony Sperduti. Printed: HBO AS, Norway.
Exhibition catalogue: ONE – Anne Katrine Senstad, 2002
ONE was published on the occasion of Senstad’s solo exhibition ONE at Galleri JMS, in Oslo, Norway. Texts: A Visual Absolute, by Gary Snyder, Is her name Red?, by Malin Barth.
Designed by Pure and Applied, New York. Printed at Bryne Offset, Norway. Supported by Arts Council Norway.
THE NORWEGIANS – Volume I and II
The Norwegians is a set of artist books that examines cultural identity and the meaning of being Norwegian through portraiture. The photographic works engrain the use of color as cultural coding. The sitters wear traditional and national clothing such as the Bunad, personal expression of identity through costume, as well as the laplander traditional clothing . Volume I presents 50 portraits created in a classical studio setting of both public figures, known Norwegian men, as well as the everyday Norwegian. Volume II presents 50 portraits of Norwegian women photographed in the natural landscape, who range from well known political figures, actors, musicians, artists and writers, as well as the typical everyday Norwegian women clothed in the national Bunad..
Essays:The Norwegians Volume I: Gerhard Sander (1940-2021), On Subjectivity and Documentation, grandson of August Sander and founder of Sander Gallery, New York and Washington DC, and acclaimed Norwegian author Thure Erik Lund, On the Hell of Being Norwegian. The Norwegians Volume II: Norwegian author, philosopher and art critic Kjetil Røed, Norwegianized: A Case of Specific Women, Norwegian art historian and curator Malin Barth, Portraits: Marker of Identity.
The Norwegians Volume I, 2005 by Anne Katrine Senstad
Designed by Pure and Applied, New York. 80 pages, soft cover. Edition of 600 (out of print). Printed at Deschling AS Norway. ISBN: 82-393-0518-8
The Norwegians Volume II, 2010, by Anne Katrine Senstad
Designed by Pure and Applied New York. 96 pages hard cover. Edition of 1500. Supported by Arts Council Norway, The Norwegian Federation for Craft Enterprises. ISBN: 978-82-998021-0-9
Capitalism in the Public Realm 