Uncanny Creation - Dioramas in the Kittelsen Gallery

In the scale 1:12, Ingvild Eiring has created small tableaus – called dioramas, in which mice are allowed to play human characters. With masterful craftsmanship, the real world is recreated with great detail in the small cabinets so that a bunch of stories come to the fore. Through around 20 scenes, we are brought through a few centuries of cultural history, which is of course presented by mice. The picture shows the diorama «Lost forever Time and Space» from 2023 with a sleeping watchman in front of works created by one of Eiring's great role models, Theodor Kittelsen.

Theodor Kittelsen is an artist who is close to my heart. The scene I have created is a tribute to his art. Five well-known motifs have been chosen and I have painted miniature replicas in oil. The frames are made of wood and metal. The guard assigned to guard the treasures is a mouse molded in polymer clay, burned and painted. The clothes are made of black wool and white cotton. As a viewer, you can see him quietly dozing off, into a dream-like state that the paintings put him in. With the diorama, I wanted to express the adventurous influence that I myself experience from Kittelsen's drawings and paintings. The environment is inspired by the Adventure Room at the National Museum.

Ingvild Eiring

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