Yesterday, Magne attended the opening of the new Clarion Hotel & Congress in Trondheim, which is situated next to the Rockheim museum. There’s a small picture of him at VG.no.
The hotel has spent a lot of money on its art collection, and Magne is one of the artists represented on the walls.
Tomorrow he’ll be back in Oslo for the second live show of The Voice.
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Magne, photographed by Marcel Leliënhof
The book Rom 13, which I mentioned here on March 6th, was published in Norway on April 20th.
In the book, 22 people talk about important turning points in their lives. There are four pages about Magne, who talks about how his focus gradually shifted from music to visual arts.
The text is accompanied by a picture of Magne, wearing a paper bag on his head with an Oscar Wilde quote; “No man is rich enough to buy back his past”.
Here’s a short excerpt from the book (translated):
“It all begins with an idea. It begins when Paul, as a kid, asks me what I want to be when I grow up. It begins when I reply that I want to be a musician. That’s where it all begins. You vocalize it. Say it out loud.
My musical activities were given such a huge outlet. I would do the other stuff alone at night, in my hotel room. I drew. Scribbled. On hotel stationary. In ring binders. Notepads.
When we moved to London, I tried to sell drawings on the street to make some extra money. a-ha found success, and I gradually became more and more tired of fame. I sensed a need to start creating artwork again. As a form of therapy.
A gallerist I knew from earlier, had run into Morten Harket and asked: When is Magne going to give up this music nonsense and start doing what he’s destined to do? When Morten told me that, it hit something in me, because I had already been thinking the same thing.”
There’s a video clip from the various Rom 13 photo shoots on vimeo. Magne can be seen at 01:28. All the photos from the book/exhibition are currently being auctioned off at fineart.no.
The book can be ordered from bokkilden.no.
Magne and Marcel Leliënhof
Posted in Magne Tags: magne furuholmen, marcel leliënhof, rom 13 Comments Off on Rom 13 book now availableIn addition to being this year’s artist at the annual Peer Gynt culture festival at Vinstra (see March 29th story), Magne has now also been chosen to be this year’s artist at the annual Olsokdagene festival at the historical site of Stiklestad, opening on July 23rd.
As adressa.no reports, Magne’s exhibition at the festival will include a unique graphic print inspired by Stiklestad, only available in 20 copies.
Magne will be present at the opening on July 23rd. The exhibition is open until sometime in August.
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Magne interviewed after the show, with Marius Beck and Marianne Pentha
The first live show of The Voice was broadcast from Chateau Neuf in Oslo last night, where Team Magne competed against Team Yosef.
Magne’s five talents had to be reduced to three by the end of the night, decided by both viewer votes and Magne’s own choices.
Shaun Bartlett got the most votes from the viewers, and Magne wanted to keep Monika Blomeid and Martin Halla on the team. So Marius Beck and Marianne Pentha are both out of the game.
“This was an incredibly difficult choice. I would have wanted to keep all my talents, they all deserve to be in the final”, Magne said after the show.
The performances can be seen here:
Marius Beck Martin Halla Marianne Pentha Shaun Bartlett Monika Blomeid
Earlier in the week TV2.no posted a 6-minute video interview with Magne and Marius Beck, which can be seen here.
Posted in Magne, The Voice Tags: magne furuholmen, marianne pentha, marius beck, martin halla, monika blomeid, shaun bartlett, the voice Comments Off on The Voice – episode 14VG has an article about Apparatjik’s upcoming performance at the Roskilde Festival today.
“This will be the first Apparatjik performance on a regular stage, so that will be interesting. Most of us in Apparatjik have been on a stage in front of 30.000 people before, but I still think there may be a few people in the audience that we’re not familiar with”, Magne says.
He can also promise more Apparatjik shows later in the year:
“We’ll be doing some spectacular outdoor performances in the autumn, probably in Norway as well. These will be very different from normal concerts and more similar to the project we did at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin last year.”
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Magne and the other mentors on The Voice were guests on TV2’s talkshow Senkveld tonight, before they are off to Magne’s cabin on a mountain trip before next week’s live show.
Talking about the upcoming live shows, where the TV-audience will be able to vote for their favorites, Magne said:
“It will be interesting to see what people think, people who don’t have the same close knowledge of the talents we’ve been working with. But that’s how it is outside the show as well – people “vote” by buying someone’s album. And I think all four of us would like to see specific artists sell a lot more albums, because we like them. But they don’t get enough “votes”, or purchases on iTunes. So there’s always a certain element of competition. We’re just trying to navigate through this as best as we can, and do our best for the talents on our teams.”
When asked what it’s like working with Magne, Sondre Lerche mentioned how he’s always been a big a-ha fan:
“I’ve had quite an intense interest in Magne and a-ha, going way back, and I have defended the band through thick and thin. When I was 12 years old, in the early 90s, and all the boys in my class liked Guns N’ Roses and Metallica, I stood up for East Of The Sun and Memorial Beach – those more serious a-ha albums.”
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Magne with his top five talents (l. to r.): Shaun Bartlett, Marius Beck, Marianne Pentha, Monika Blomeid and Martin Halla (Picture from TV2.no)
In tonight’s sing-off episode, three of Magne’s talents had to perform their blind audition songs again – to determine who would go to the final round, the live shows, starting next Friday.
Video clips:
Kristiania (“Viva La Vida”)
Kathrine Fugllien (“Wake Me Up When September Ends”)
Marianne Pentha (“When Love Takes Over”)
Magne ended up choosing Marianne Pentha, who joins Shaun Bartlett, Marius Beck, Monika Blomeid and Martin Halla as the final five talents on Team Magne.
Posted in Magne, The Voice Tags: kathrine fugllien, kristiania, magne furuholmen, marianne pentha, the voice Comments Off on The Voice – episode 13The Roskilde Festival in Denmark has announced that Apparatjik will be one of the acts performing at this year’s festival, which is held between 5 – 8 July.
The exact date and stage will be revealed later, but Magne has previously mentioned that they have been invited to perform on the Orange Stage.
More info at roskilde-festival.dk.
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Here are last week’s duels on Magne’s team in episode 11 of The Voice:
Kathrine Fugllien vs. Yvonne Walderhaug (performing “Erase/Rewind”)
Ruben Gundersen vs. Martin Halla (performing “Keep on Walking”)
And the duel from episode 12 yesterday:
Heidi Blåsmo Frantzen vs. Marianne Pentha (performing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”).
In next week’s episode, Magne will need to reduce the number of talents on his team from seven to five, through a sing-off contest. And those five will then be ready for the live shows, starting on April 27th.
Posted in Magne, The Voice Tags: heidi blåsmo frantzen, kathrine fugllien, magne furuholmen, marianne pentha, martin halla, martin terefe, ruben gundersen, the voice, yvonne walderhaug Comments Off on The Voice – episode 11 and 12Some info from the website of Elevorganisasjonen (the Norwegian student organization):
“Sant & Usant and Elevorganisasjonen are now working together to make a time capsule, containing young people’s thoughts on 22 July 2011, thoughts about our country and on our future. Your school can take part in this project, which will be a gift to the youth of the future, as well as an addition to the official history. (…) The time capsule will be kept in the [Norwegian] National Archives until 2031. Then it will be opened and the content will be made available to the public and for research purposes. As a symbol of the time capsule, Magne Furuholmen will create an artwork to be exhibited in the National Archives. The artwork will be made in collaboration with some of the students that are taking part in the time capsule project “Til Ungdommen” [“For the Youth”].”
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