Morten Juvet
Grafikk 1969–2025
Morten Juvet had his breakthrough as a visual artist during a golden age for printmaking. Seldom before or since has printmaking played such a prominent artistic role, not least among a large and youthful buying audience. Juvet holds a secure place in art history due to his significance during the 1970s and 1980s, at the transition from pop art to postmodernism. Whether viewed in the context of one movement or the other, we are left with an impression of an unmistakably distinctive character.
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Juvet’s preferred techniques have been woodcut and screen printing, with only a modest output in other methods. By employing simple and affordable graphic techniques, artists of Juvet’s generation were also able to take control of the entire production process. Through edition printing, the art could reach beyond the gallery wall. On his farm in Holmestrand, he has set up his own printmaking workshop with a press, and the graphic work he carries out there today can be seen as part of his approach to creating art as a form of cottage industry aligned with the green transition. This has helped to maintain one of the few remaining farms in the area and has prevented the land from being expropriated for other commercial purposes—such as what would otherwise have been an ideal location for a furniture superstore. In this way, the societal role of printmaking is linked not only to form and subject matter, but also to the method of production and the category of goods.
(From Øivind Storm Bjerke’s text in the book)
Galleri Galleberg
Hortensveien 231
3157 Barkåker
+47 921 12 721
kjetil.galleberg@gmail.com
Text: Øivind Storm Bjerke
Cover: Woodcut by Morten Juvet, 2024
32,5 x 32,5 cm
Photography: Tomas Moss, Thomas Widerberg, p. 61, Petter Brønn, p. 6, Halvor Bodin, p. 2, 182, 183, endpapers
Graphic design: Halvor Bodin
Design intern: Caroline Rognan Aasen
Printing: TS Trykk, Oslo
Bokbinding: Bokbinderiet Johnsen
Morten Juvet website
2025
24 x 28 cm
184 pages
ISBN 978-82-93233-37-4
TS Trykk, Oslo
Paper: Arctic Volume White 130 g/m2
Endpapers: MultiOffset 140 g/m2, FSC
Cover: Geltex 11 LS 150 g/m2
Typography: SN Skandia Condensed,
LL Ruder Plakat Var
Language: Norwegian
24 x 28 cm
184 pages
ISBN 978-82-93233-37-4
TS Trykk, Oslo
Paper: Arctic Volume White 130 g/m2
Endpapers: MultiOffset 140 g/m2, FSC
Cover: Geltex 11 LS 150 g/m2
Typography: SN Skandia Condensed,
LL Ruder Plakat Var
Language: Norwegian
