Allan D'Arcangelo, Big Sign - Little Building: Office for Contemporary Art Norway | Oslo, Norway

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway presents 'BIG SIGN - LITTLE BUILDING', an exhibition that looks at the expanded temporal and spatial field for cultural production resulting from the modern shift in the notion of landscape from the Kantian sublime to the space of leisure time. This enquiry was pursued by the radical artists and architects who throughout the 1960s and into the 70s explored how the aesthetic experience of nature within modernity arrived at the perception of the expressiveness of nature through the expressiveness in things. In doing so, their respective investigations reflected upon the loss of faith in natural beauty and evolved into an aesthetic experience of landscape as one no longer located within the 'towering mountains eloquent in what they crush overwhelmingly', but instead as projections of space liberated beyond the proliferation of artificial things.