white noise Art League Houston, TX November 10, 2006 – January 5, 2007


by John Devine, ArtUs magazine May 2007

Magelssen´s sculptures (somewhat tellingly described in the project statement from the website, as simply “wallobjects”) are carefully built up and sanded down in a repetitive process that suggests meditation, while their geometric forms (square, circle, lines, angles) seem to push forward and recede at the same time – your eyes just can´t decide.


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“Between the lines” Gallery MGM, Oslo, 2 – 20 November 2002


by Anders Eiebakk, 3 November 2002 in the magazine section of the newspaper “Dagens Næringsliv”

Gallery MGM, Oslo, 2 – 20 November 2003
Magelssen, born in 1964, is something so unusual as a consistent, Norwegian modernist. The exhibition is remarkably clean-cut; a quality emphasized by the gallery’s sober, white walls and plain appearance.
Janine Magelssen’s series of wall objects at Gallery MGM is entitled “Between the lines”. From outside in the street, it looks remote – just monochromic, expanses of light and dark color in a white room. But if you enter the gallery, you experience something strange: the objects turn out not to be cold and impersonal after all, but reach out to you with a message. They tell stories about the alliance between material and form.

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