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Galleri Tom Christoffersen: HENRIK MENN�: TING OG SAGER / STUFF CUBE: JESPER FABRICIUS - 24 Feb 2012 to 24 Mar 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Henrik Menn�: Savsmuldsinstrument (Saw Dust Instrument). 2012
board, plywood, pine tree, saw dust, metal, ventilator, cable 193 x 83 x 68 cm |
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Scroll down for text in English HENRIK MENNÉ TING OG SAGER / STUFF Opening: Friday 24.02.2012 17-20 Duration: 24.02.2012 - 24.03. 2012 På separatudstillingen "Ting og Sager" præsenterer Henrik Menné systematiske blyantstegninger og skulpturer af træ. I Galleri Tom Christoffersen forbinder værkerne sig konstant på ny via formsprog, skalaspring, materialevalg og bevægelse. En af mange veje gennem udstillingen starter ved fire tegninger. Alle arbejder på papir er opbygget efter hvert deres simple system, hvor geometriske figurer og matematiske principper er fremtrædende. De er imidlertid tålmodigt tegnet i hånden og med blyant, så den maskinelle repetition, som tegningens system indebærer, bliver sidestillet med en varighed, nærhed og et udtryk, der lægger sig til den fysiske krop. Samme greb er fremtrædende i skulpturen Tændstikkonstruktion, hvor kvadratet som idealfigur er gjort rummelig i en tidskrævende modellering af lim og tændstikker til det punkt, hvor materialets minimale forskydning af geometrien springer i øjnene. Denne balance mellem styring og en accept af det, som måtte fremkomme i den proces, som det enkelte værk kredser om, er velkendt for værker af Henrik Menné – og er også tilstede i udstillingens maskin-skulptur: Savsmuldsinstrument. Den er sat i værk for sig selv og gallerigængeren, der bliver vidne til en sky af savsmuld, som danner midlertidige formationer, når materialet stemningsfuldt aflejrer sig på en stump nordmandsgran. Det anvendte savsmuld er imidlertid fra en væg af lægtestumper, hvis synlige tværsnit sender forløbet tilbage til tegningerne i en billedlighed med blyantens skravering og med en reference til den tid, der er indlejret i værkets tilblivelsesproces – og dette er bare en genvej gennem en del af udstillingen. Centralt for "Ting og Sager" er en bevidst brug af materialet træ i alle afskygninger. Spændet er fra spånplade til teak, og anvendelse af dette hierarki åbner op for associationer, som hidtil har været nedtonet i kunstnerens produktion. Lidt atypisk er flest værker unplugged, men de befinder sig fortsat i feltet mellem naturvidenskab og kunst. De vidner om en forundring over verden omkring os og et forsøg på at gribe en lille flig af den i det handlingsrum, som samtidsskulptur har netop nu. - Henrik Menné presents systematic pencil drawings and sculptures of wood on his solo exhibition "Stuff" (Ting og Sager). The new works at Galleri Tom Christoffersen are linked in different ways through change of scale, idiom, materials and movement. One of many paths through the exhibition departs from four pencil drawings. All works on paper are based on a rigid system, where geometry and mathematical principles plays a role. At the same time they are patiently drawn by hand why the machinelike repetition contained in the concept of each drawing is juxtaposed with the timely duration and presence of the body. This is also at stake in the sculpture Tændstikkonstruktion (Match Stick Construction), where the square as ideal is turned physical in a time consuming moulding of match sticks and glue to the point where the materials minimal displacement of the geometrical figure is obvious. This balance between control and an acceptance of what may appear in the particular process of each sculpture is well known in works by Henrik Menné – and also an issue in the machine-sculpture Savsmuldsinstrument (Saw Dust Instrument). It is at work during the exhibition and the visitor of the gallery witness how a cloud of saw dust turns into temporary forms as the substance layers poetically on a branch of fir tree. The saw dust originally stem from a slowly elevated wall of laths, and we thereby return to the drawings as the many visible sections of the laths have affinity to both the dense line works of the drawings and the timely duration invested and visible in each work – and this is only a short cut through a small part of the exhibition. The deliberate use of wood in all its forms is central to "Stuff". The hierachy from chipboard to teak is presented in a way that leaves room to associations, a trait that have been downplayed in the production of Henrik Menné's so far. Surprisingly most works are unplugged. They are still situated in the field between science and art, and seems driven by a curiosity of the world around us and an urge to understand and present a bit of it through contemporary sculpture. Henrik Menné (1973/DK) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. Two important works in public space are the site specific Green Lighthouse Instrument (2009) installed at the campus of the faculty of science, University of Copenhagen and the sculpture Cylinder (2008) in Eventyrhaven in Odense. Solo exhibitions count: Live, Ringsted Galleriet (2009), Hjernen i Karret (Brain in a Vat), Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Cph. (2007) and Krognoshuset /Kunstföreningen Aura, Lund (Sweden, 2008). Important group exhibitions are: Vokseværk. Kunsten - Aalborg Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg and Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg (2011), Process is Paradigm. LABoral, Gijon, (Spain, 2010), Physical Conditions. Wood Street Galleries, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, (USA, 2009), Synthetic Times - Media Art China 2008. National Art Museum of China (Namoc), Beijing, (China, 2008), Rundt På Gulvet, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense (2007). Henrik Menné is represented by Galleri Tom Christoffersen. CUBE JESPER FABRICIUS Porno Kommunistisk Universitet, the radical potential of repetition Opening: Friday 24.02.2012 17-20 Duration: 24.02.2012 - 24.03. Jesper Fabricius (1957/DK). Latest exhibitions: 2012: We have travelled far, W17, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norge. Pist Protta visits Nomi´s Kitchen, Nomi´s Kitchen, Glasgow, UK. 2011: ALT ER NYT, Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Kbh. Pist Protta 1981 - 2031, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense. Værker af ekstraordinært smukke kunstnere, Kurator, TTC Gallery, Kbh.Tallinn Print Triennial, KUMU Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia. 2010: Diverse Løsninger, Cube, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Separat (s.m. Hans Peter Feldmann). Alting er nyt, Momentan, Kbh (separat). 2009: Fri Porto. Den Fries Udstillingsbygning, Kbh. 28th biennial of graphic arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
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