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Galleri Tom Christoffersen: EUROPALLE m.m. - 5 July 2008 to 23 Aug 2008 Current Exhibition |
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EUROPALLE m.m. By showing the group exhibition EUROPALLE m.m. (EUR PALLET etc.) Galleri Tom Christoffersen presents a wide variety of very cogent works of art. Ib Geertsen submits new and old mobiles (1953-2008), Bodil Nielsen selects paintings from her series Pacific (2005), Elmer chooses a few of his painted images with a subject matter which departs from licorice allsorts (1982) and Honza brings refined EUR Pallets. The mobiles by IB GEERTSEN are titled �Drawing in Air� or simply �Movement�. They are pieces of Danish Konkret Kunst - concrete sculptures resembling three dimensional and dynamic drawings, which moves in space in what resembles a long and balanced infinity. For several decades Ib Geertsen has gained respect for his concrete painting and sculpture and the mobiles have been an important part of his production since 1950. BODIL NIELSEN has a formal approach to painting. The series �Pacific� is from the part of Nielsen�s production, which is pure matter of fact. The series is completely freed from compromising transparency, soft edges or ambiguous layers. Instead �Pacific� comes forth as vertical large scale and narrow formats carrying broad horizontal coloured planes which is juxtaposed on the same surface and stretches uninterrupted from one edge of the canvas to the other. The pieces by ELMER resemble formal painting but basically represent licorice allsorts in two dimensions. The single abstracted piece of candy is flattened and blown up in order to simply and uncompromisingly fill up a whole board or canvas. In these conceptual works it is the line, the colour, the form � and the recognition, which makes up a meaning. The group of works are from the beginning of the 1980ties a period where Elmer formulated POST-PAINTING as notion and praxis: To repeat � copy the world from mass culture in which the unique was unthinkable. HONZA departs from an every day object as well: The EUR pallet. A European standardised product, which is reworked by the artist to become a piece of art. The front of the pallet is polished and given lacquer to the point where it carries some of the same features of formal sculpture. They work both mounted on the wall, leaned against the wall and put on the floor, from where they touches reality and plunges into art history�s web of established meanings. P� gruppeudstillingen EUROPALLE m.m. inviterer Galleri Tom Christoffersen til et bredt udvalg af stramme v�rker. Ib Geertsen pr�senterer nye og �ldre mobiler (1953-2008), Bodil Nielsen enkelte malerier fra serien "Pacific" (2005), Elmer et udvalg af malede billeder med motivisk afs�t i lakridskonfekter (1982) og Honza stiller med bearbejdede europaller (2008). IB GEERTSEN mobiler b�rer titler som: "Tegninger i luft" og "Bev�gelse". Det er abstrakte drejeskulpturer, der som tredimensionelle, dynamiske tegninger bev�ger sig i rummet i en lang og afbalanceret uendelighed. Ib Geertsens konkrete malerier og skulpturer har l�nge v�ret anerkendt, og mobiler har v�ret en vigtig del af kunstnerens produktion siden 1950. Der er mange m�der at arbejde konkret p�. BODIL NIELSENs serie "Pacific" er fra det spor af kunstnerens produktion, der er benh�rdt. Pacific er fuldst�ndig blottet for formildende transparens, bl�de konturer eller tvetydige overlap. I stedet st�r de smalle vertikale formater kompromisl�st frem og lader brede horisontale farvefelter g� fra kant til kant. ELMERs v�rker ligner formelt maleri men gengiver lakridskonfekter i to dimensioner. Det enkelte stykke slik er konsekvent gjort stort og fladt, s� det simpelt, k�ligt og effektfuldt fylder et helt v�rk ud. I disse konceptuelle v�rker ligger meget i stregen, farven, formen - og i genkendeligheden. V�rkerne er fra starten af firserne, fra den periode hvor Elmer formulerede POST-PAINTING som begreb og praksis: At gentage - kopiere verden fra en massekultur, hvor det unikke er ut�nkeligt. HONZAs afs�t er ogs� i et dagligdagsobjekt - Europallen. Et funktionelt objekt der er raffineret til v�rk, da fronten er slebet og lakeret s� pallen til forveksling ligner konkret skulptur. De fungerer b�de oph�ngt p� v�ggen, l�net op ad v�ggen og lagt p� gulvet, hvor de tr�kker tr�de ud i virkeligheden og ind i kunsthistoriens net af etablerede betydninger. ANNE SOFIE BIRD M�LLERs CUBE-udstilling (Desert Music) er forl�nget frem til 23.08.2008 |
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