Deborah Bell Photographs presents Dag Alveng: Photographs from Telemark, an exhibition of largescale black-and-white photographs the artist made in Norway’s scenic Telemark region from 2020-2021. In 2015, the historic Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site in Telemark, Norway, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Soon afterward, the Telemark Kunstmuseum commissioned Dag Alveng to create an exhibition and accompanying catalogue of photographs to celebrate the preservation of this important territory. Five of those photographs comprise the current exhibition. Telemark is a large county in southern Norway that stretches from the mountains to the North Sea. Not only is this idyllic terrain the seat of Norway’s technological progress and economic expansion in the first half of the 20th century; it also marks the site of Norway’s spectacular achievement in preventing possible atomic disaster during World War II. Alveng travelled throughout Telemark’s various municipalities — Fjone, Nesland, Notodden, Rjukan, and Tinn — where he photographed its stunning terrain of clear lakes, broad rivers, deep gorges and cliffs, and its magnificent waterfalls, nature’s stage for this incredible story of industrial development.
Dag Alveng : Photographs from Telemark
Until November 2, 2024
Deborah Bell Photographs
526 West 26th Street, Room 411
New York, NY 10001
212-249-9400
www.deborahbellphotographs.com
Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, 11-5
