JOSEFINE LYCHE SELECTED WORKS PICTURE 1: "4D AMBASSADOR (HYPERCUBE)",2012 Plexi glass, radiant plexi glass 41 x 41 x 41 cm 4D AMBASSADOR (SOLID HYPERCUBE) 2013 Plexi glass, woodwork 41 x 41 x 41 cm PICTURE 2: 4D AMBASSADOR (THESADREHON) 2013 Plexi glass, radiant plexi glass 41 x 41 x 41 cm The works are a physical presentation of a non physical phenomenon; The 4 th Dimension. And are meant as ambassadors for this yet to come dimension. Four-dimensional space ("4D") is an abstract concept derived by generalizing the rules of three-dimensional-space. It has been studied by mathematicians and philosophers for almost three hundred years, both for its own interest and for the insights it offered into mathematics and related fields. ---------------------------------- PICTURE 3: LENS FLARE, 2011 Cut glass and wooden shelf 80 x 170 x 20 cm. The work is a physical representation of an optical phenomenon, created when a bright light source is shining on the camera lens. The spatial distribution of the lens flare typically manifests as several starbursts, rings, or circles in a row across the image or view. Lens flare patterns typically spread widely across the scene and change location with the camera's movement relative to light sources, tracking with the light position and fading as the camera points away from the bright light until it causes no flare at all. For example, if the lens has a 6-bladed aperture, the flare may have a hexagonal pattern. Digitally; a lens flare is often deliberately used to invoke a sense of drama. A lens flare is also useful when added to an artificial or modified image composition because it adds a sense of realism, implying that the image is an un-edited original photograph of a "real life" scene. -------------------------------- PICTURE 4: GRIDS, YOU SAY? (Universal Staircase BLACK) and GRIDS, YOU SAY? (Universal Staircase WHITE), 2012 Both: Acrylic and fluorcent paint on linien Both: 9 canvas, each 60 x 60 cm In the spatial sense, the grid states the autonomy of the realm of art. Flattened, geometricized, ordered, it is antinatural, antimimetic, antireal. It is what art looks like when it turns its back to nature. In the flatness that results from its coordinates, the grid is the means of crowding out the dimensions of the real and replacing them with the lateral result not of imitation, but of aesthetic decree. Insofar as its order is that of pure relationship, the grid is a way of abrogating the claims of natural objects to have an order particular to themselves; the relationships in the aesthetic field are shown by the grid to be in a world apart and, with respect to natural objects, to be both prior and final." "... the bottom line of the grid is a naked and determined materialism. But (...) that is not the way that
artists have ever discussed it. (...) Mondrian and Malevich are not discussing canvas or pigment or graphite or any other form of matter. They are talking about Being or Mind or Spirit." "The grid's mythic power is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism (or sometimes science, or logic) while at the same time it provides us with a release into belief (or illusion, or fiction)." From: Rosalind Krauss: "Grids" October 9, Summer 1979. [Reprinted in: The Originality of the Avant- Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1985, pp. 9-22. The quotes above are from pages 9-12; -------------------------------- PICTURE 5: UNTITLED (PHI), 2012 Acrylic on wall, wood work, mirrors, Variable dimensions The installation is showing Fibonaccis spiral and the Golden Ratio presented in three materials, acrylic paint on wall, woodwork and mirrors. The golden ratio is a mathematical law known by many names, which include the: golden proportion, golden mean, golden cut, divine proportion, extreme and mean ratio, phi or! (the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet). It can be expressed in many ways, including numerically, geometrically, in length, area, volume, distribution, beauty, consciousness and creation itself. It has the ability to create infinite diversity on all levels of creation. The golden ratio, phi, is essentially a relationship between two or more components of a whole; where the whole is divided into a small and large segment. Any whole can be divided into two segments. However, there is only one way that something can be divided so that the two parts are unified proportionally to each other in the same way as they are unified to the original undivided whole. The installation is an attempt to show the beauty in perfect symmetry, and pointing out how this pattern is found all over the universe. PICTURE 6: PSYCHICK, 2012 Neon and Plexiglass. 43 x 110 cm The work is a word play, pointing to all the neon signs hanging in New York where claimed clair-voyant people are offering their services to read your future in your palm or in a crystal ball. I added the letter at the end of the PSYCHIC word, giving it the Chick meaning- with many interpretations and also a humoristic touch. Psychedelic-chich- Psychological-Chick or Psychic-chick. ----------------------------------------- PICTURE 7: FIBONACCI ROYGBIV (PHI), 2011 Vinyl on 20 windows, and glitter on floor 3000 x 300 cm 10 X 10: "The Feast", with Pawel Jarodzki and Oliver Laric Four Domes Pavilion, European Culture Congress 2011 Curated by Marianne Zamecznik Excerpt from Marianne Zamecznik txt on the project The Feast : The Feast presents the work of three artists, who all contribute to create a peaceful atmosphere for relaxation and reflection, where the audience can make the emotional transition between what has been experienced in the lecture halls and the art program.
The space is lit by daylight, shifting from the high sun at noon until the darkness of evening - the light inside the space mirrors the outside. The light shining through the twenty tall windows will be dyed in the colors of the rainbow. Norwegian artists Josefine Lyche has borrowed the colors from the so-called Roygbiv system. Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for the sequence of hues in rainbows and the visible spectrum. Lyche has distributed the colors according to the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical series discovered by Leonardo Fibonacci in the 12th century. The series is found throughout nature, from leaf arrangements in plants to the human body. The System shows that in order to reach the logical number following the last, you have to look back in the sequence and sum up the previous numbers. According to the artists, this can easily be translated to human history, and explain how we must look back, to our ancient history and culture to reach a higher level of consciousness and finally eternity: Phi. The Fibonacci sequence shows how life intelligently develops its own design by looking back to its previous level and adding it to its state of being in order to reach the next level. It describes life as it is, how it was, and how it will be, and how these three time-dimensions are interrelated. ------------------------------------------ PICTURE 8: WISDOM, LUXURY, ROMANCE, 2011 Acrylic, lacquer and glitter on linen 300 x 300 cm In the monumental 3 part painting "Wisdom Luxury Romance" the title is a quote from Jim Morrisons Lament and also draw lines to both Matisse and Baudelaire in his poem "L'invitation au voyage ". Playing with the surface of the canvases in three different shades of shine, from matte to glossy to glitter, I am showing a Maslow Hierarchy of wisdom, luxury and romance. FORM FROM MORF, 2011 Wood-work, radiant plexi glass 120 x 120 x 220 cm Form from Morf is an Octahedron - one of the five Platonic Solids mad of opale radiant plexi glas. With its double pyramide shape, it connects heaven and earth, ------------------------------------------ PICTURE 9: THE 2 X 2 CASE (DIAMOND THEOREM), 2010 After Steven H. Cullinane 96 mirrors / acrylic paint / light 450 x 650 cm The 2 x 2 Case (Diamond Theorem), 96 cut mirrors are mounted together in 24 different possible combinations, all based on the one starting point form,: Plato s Diamond. In his diamond theorem, Plato tells how Socrates helped Meno's slave boy "remember" the geometry of a diamond. The wall piece shows the theory of knowledge as recollection by merging mathematical elegance and geometrical beauty. ------------------------------------------ PICTURE 10: PLATONIC SOLIDS, 2009 Laser cut mirror plexi / MDF / light Each form 160 x 160 x 3 cm MOMENTUM 2009-5th Nordic Biennial for Nordic Contemporary Art Using the five shapes considered to be the core of our whole existence, presenting them in a mirror material that reflects the surroundings.
The Platonic Solids are the repeating geometric patterns that constitute the basic building blocks of life. They are said to be the language of creation, which exists at the foundation of all life, and are the blueprint of sequence of movements that Divine Spirit makes upon descending from pure Source Energy into matter. This ultimately creates a unique energy pattern described as the field of formative causation, which is crystalline in structure. Sacred Geometry defines the nature of Space and Time and is the architecture of the universe.!