Fredrik Raddum - Get Lost

Major exhibition at ARoS with Norwegian artist Fredrik Raddum (b. 1973, lives and works in Oslo). The exhibition was his first major showing in Denmark.

Fredrik Raddum works primarily with sculptures and installations, and his art can best be described as cheeky, humorous and concerning. His works often feature animals, people and elements taken from Norwegian nature, which at first glance appear as nature-romantic pop in shiny and smooth materials. On closer inspection, however, you realise that the motifs have a social satirical bite and provide food for thought.

At the exhibition Get Lost, the audience was invited into Fredrik Raddum's alluring and quirky universe and presented with a large number of large and small sculptures, some of which were created especially for the exhibition at ARoS. The exhibition was staged as a total installation where Raddum's works gave free rein to the imagination and where familiar symbols, figures and references met in new constellations that put a smile on the face and provided food for thought.

In connection with the exhibition, a large, fully illustrated catalogue was published in Danish/English containing texts about Fredrik Raddum's artistic production.

Fredrik Raddum's use of materials and idiom is unique, and with his seemingly innocent-looking works he manages to approach existential and political themes with humour and a keen eye for the absurd.

Fredrik Raddum's art is not childish, but consciously utilises a formal and visual language linked to the universe of childhood and a communication of the world through play. The use of humour and caricatured characters should not be seen as an expression of an apolitical or socially disinterested art, but on the contrary as a desire to let the universe of comics and toys depict the reality that surrounds modern man, for better or worse.