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Galleri Tom Christoffersen: D.R.A.W.I.N.G.S., FUCK UPS & DEFACED POSTERS - Claus Carstensen - 19 Aug 2011 to 17 Sept 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Claus Carstensen, Untitled, 2011
acrylic and spay on photocopy 91 x 121 cm |
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D.R.A.W.I.N.G.S., FUCK UPS & DEFACED POSTERS - Claus Carstensen 19.08. - 17.09.2011 Opening: Friday 19.08.2011, 5-7 PM CUBE: Jeffrey Silverthorne Scroll down for text in English Claus Carstensen udstiller storformatstegninger i Galleri Tom Christoffersen. Udstillingen består af billeder, der kan ses som en omfunktionering af den klassiske tegning. Med andre midler såsom spray, collage, fotokopi, trykketeknisk mislykket litografi osv. manifesterer disse billeder sig i en dystopisk motivkreds. Ved hjælp af et low budget, low-fi, skamferet og råt udtryk arbejdes der med en negering af den historiske, politiske og æstetiske repræsentation. Defacing er et nøglebegreb for billederne og har været en del af Claus Carstensens praksis fra slutningen af 1980’erne. Helt tilbage til de kristne billedstormere, ikonoklasterne, har defacing (overmalingen, modifikationen) været en brugbar strategi i billedkunsten. Op igennem modernismen er Rauschenbergs Erased De Kooning, hvor værket er en udvisket tegning, og herhjemme Asger Jorns modifikationer eksempler på defacing. Når Claus Carstensen anvender metoden sker det ofte i en politisk kontekst og hans værker spiller på den defacing, der finder sted out in the real – under revolutionære regimer når alle spor skal slettes eller mere dansk som når valgplakater skamferes. I begge tilfælde og i hans egne billeders udtryk handler det om det vakuum ikonoklasmen, defacingen, skaber i mødet med virkelighed og repræsentation. Den andethed som værkerne her tildeles, skaber et muligt udsigelsesrum – en åbning for en ny diskurs. Til udstillingen udgives et katalog i Artist Book-traditionen. D.R.A.W.I.N.G.S., fuck ups and defaced posters er en billedbog uden tekst – ren, klar visuel kommunikation. Kataloget er støttet af Statens Kunstfond. -- Claus Carstensen exhibits large format drawings at Gallery Tom Christoffersen. The exhibition consists of images that can be seen as a defunctioning of the classic drawing. With other mediums such as spray, collage, photocopy, technical failure lithography etc. these images manifests in dystopian range of motifs. Using a low budget, low-fi, mutilated and raw expression the body of work is dealing with a negation of the historical, political and aesthetic representation. Defacing is a key concept for the images and has been part of Claus Carstensen's practice from since the late 1980s. All the way back to the Christian ikonoklasts defacing (modification) has been a useful strategy in visual art. Through Modernism Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning, where the work is an erased drawing, and in Denmark the Modifications by Asger Jorn are examples of defacing. When Claus Carstensen is using this approach it often happens in a political context and his works play on the defacing that takes place out in the real world – in the revolutionary regimes when all traces must be deleted or in a more Danish context as when election posters are mutilated. In both cases, and in his own image's expression, it is about the vacuum ikonoklasmen, defacing, creates in the encounter with reality and representation. The otherness that the works here is assigned, creates a possible space for enu nciation - an opening for a new discourse. In relation to the exhibition a catalog is published in the Artist Book tradition. D.R.A.W.I.N.G.S., FUCK UPS & DEFACED POSTERS is a picture book without text - clean, clear visual communication. The catalog is supported by the Danish Arts Council. Galleri Tom Christoffersen Skindergade 5 • DK-1159 K¸benhavn K Tlf. +45 33917610 / +45 26377210 [email protected] www.tomchristoffersen.dk |
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