Tag: Jesper Dalgaard
ABSOLUTE WINTER
Jesper Dalgaard working @ V1
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ANDREAS SCHULENBURG, JESPER DALGAARD & ULU BRAUN
It is with great pleasure that Charlotte Fogh Contemporary presents a group exhibition with the artists Andreas Schulenburg, Jesper Dalgaard and Ulu Braun.
As a presentation of the three artists the exhibition embraces sculptures, reliefs, video and collages. The common denominator of the three artists is a profound focus on the imaginative in their work on the relationship between nature and culture.
With his felt sculptures, Andreas Schulenburg strives to change our usual view of the logic of things. Through a humoristic and absurd twist of nature/culture the artworks creates a reflection on the traditional order of reality.
The works of Jesper Dalgaard take off in an immanent interest in culture’s effect on nature and vice versa, which is expressed in a peculiar sculptural universe questioning our cultural history and its constructions.
Ulu Braun presents small concentrated collages, that operate in the area between imagination and reality as well as nature and culture. With their surreal atmosphere the artworks are exuberant, eccentric, beautiful and terrifying fiction.
To The Road Less Travelled – Wishing You Love and Happiness and Curiosity Forever
To The Road Less Travelled – Wishing You Love and Happiness and Curiosity Forever
A group exhibition featuring: HuskMitNavn (DK), Søren Behncke (DK), Pica Pica (BE), Jesper Dalgaard (DK)Andrew Sendor (US), Benji Whalen (US), Michael Dumontier (CAN), Asger Carlsen (DK), Shane Bradford (UK), Mike Mills (US), Troels Carlsen (DK), Jes Brinch (DK), DearRainDrop (US), Graham Hudson (UK), Misha Hollenbach (AUS), Neil Farber (US), Michael Rytz (DK), Mads Lynnerup (DK), Lora Fosberg (US), Rory McBeth (UK), Clayton Brothers (US), Michael Swaney (CAN), Brian Montuori (US), Johannes Hinriksson (IS), Michelle Blade (US) and Jakob Boeskov (DK/IS).
Opening day: Friday January 15. 2010. From 17.00 – 22.00
Exhibition period: January 16. – February 13. 2010.
The title of the exhibition is lifted from a hand written inscription in an edition of Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’. The full inscription reads like this:
“Laurabelle and Nicolas – to the road less travelled – wishing you love and happiness and curiosity forever- with love, Annie xx”
Jesper Elg: “I actually never saw the inscription myself. It is sealed in paint forever in one of Shane Bradford’s dipped book works. I guess this fact made me even more intrigued and curious about the work. And that feeling is exactly what this exhibition celebrates; curiosity forever. Curiosity as a question mark when too many people agree or disagree. Curiosity as in turning your GPS off and letting gut and chance roam. Curiosity as to what art is or could be. Curiosity as to exploring limits and boundaries. Curiosity as in transgressing limits and boundaries. Curiosity as in meeting the world again. Curiosity as to what will happen when I stick my finger in there. Curiosity as to what are being built in there. All the questions you are not supposed to ask, but hopefully do.”
This makes perfect sense. Curiosity is a key component of life in all its grit and glory. Closely related to courage, stupidity, lust and intelligence it is dangerous and vital, wise and senseless. It can push you into darkness and turn on the light. It can send you down dodgy paths and make you take wrong turns. But it also paves the way for triumph. It can create and destroy. It makes heroes and losers. And can lead to both magnificent mistakes and great thoughts. It made Odysseus stray, but perhaps it also led him back on track. Scientists, artists and prying people in general keep venturing into the unknown instead of resting on given truths that promises them a comfortable life in this life and the supposed next. Paradise was lost. But Freedom was given.
The exhibition features works from 25 very diverse international artists working in different media spanning from painting, mixed media and drawing over sculpture to video. Some are old friends of V1: the prolific Rory MacBeth, the fluorescent rebels Dearraindrop, the influential Clayton Brothers, the Icelandic Brahman Johannes Hinriksson, the devilishly detailed Troels Carlsen and the artistic sniper Jakob Boeskov. And others are new friends: the deliciously quirky Michael Dumontier, the visual wordsmith Lora Fosberg and Mike Mills whose monocle we love to see the world through. Some have kept us curious for years; others have just caught our attention. But all works are projections of our wish to know, see and hear more – and our hope to feel lost and found at the same time.
We can’t think of a more appropriate way of opening the doors to a new decade, than by celebrating curiosity in contemporary art. Jump into the reverse boat and dance around the colorful totems. Marvel at constructions we will never be able to find harmony in and sympathize with the dog whose position some of us envy and other of us fear. Leave the brush hanging and let the fat man find his own – and others – death. Bike next to the exotic beauty in familiar settings and read all the lost signals.
FLY BY’S
Galleri Christoffer Egelund is proud to present the group exhibition Fly By’s. The exhibition was curated in cooperation with Anders Brinch and Morten Steen Hebsgaard and presents an international line-up of nine progressive artists, who all individually reflect the contemporary art scene of today. Consequently, visitors can see new works by: Sören Hüttel (DK), Ghost of a Dream (US), Gudrun Hasle (DK), Andreas Schulenburg (DE/DK), Helgi Thorsson (IS), Tom Fruin (US), Mats Adelman (SE), Jesper Dalgaard (DK) and Matt Franks (UK). Each of these nine artists incorporate their own unique style into sculptural, light or wall works. They come together from different parts of the world and converge in the same space, ready for a Fly By at Galleri Christoffer Egelund, where they will have room for everything from quiet passages to wilder excesses.
Sören Hüttel (DK) graduated from Funen Art Academy and Glasgow School of Art. He has exhibited in, amongst other places, Latvia, China, Scotland, the US and most recently at Gentofte Library’s Trane exhibition with ”Disco Volante”. Ghost of a Dream consists of the artist couple Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was (MFA Painting with Honors and MFA Sculpture with Honors, respectively, from Rhode Island School of Design). They have recently participated in the Young Masters exhibition in London, VOLTA 5 Artist Project in Basel, and Talent Preview ’09 at White Box Gallery in New York. Gudrun Hasle (DK), who graduated from Funen Art Academy and the Royal Danish Academy of Art, has presented solo exhibitions at, for instance, Funen Art Museum and, in the US, West Chicago City Museum. Andreas Schulenburg (DK/DE), who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art, has exhibited at, for instance, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art and Malmö Kunsthal and is represented at ARoS Art Museum, the New Carlsberg Foundation and the US Penny McCall Foundation and others. Helgi Thorsson (IS) is an MA in Fine Art from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam with solo exhibitions at, for instance, Fries Museum (Holland), and most recently he participated in ’Momentum Festival – 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art’ in Norway. Tom Fruin (US), who graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has exhibited at such museums as Haifa Museum (Israel), Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver, Colorado), Austin Museum of Art (Austin, Texas), and Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt. Moreover, he is represented in several collections. Mats Adelman (SE), who graduated from Malmö Art Academy, is represented in the permanent collections of Malmö Art Museum and Lund Art Museum, amongst others. Jesper Dalgaard (DK), who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art, has exhibited at Aarhus Art Museum, Skive Art Museum and the National Gallery of Denmark, amongst others, and has received the biennial scholarship of Statens Kunstfond (Denmark’s national art foundation). Matt Franks (UK) has an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmith College of Art in London. He has exhibited at, for instance, Birmingham Museum of Modern Art, Tate Britain in London and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, USA, and received the British Council’s Individual Artists Award in 2001.