CANDLE WITH HARE – Søren Behncke
Søren Behncke (1967) is one of the most special and innovative artists in contemporary art in Denmark. His humorous and weird paintings, sculptures, and street-actions include cardboard and graphic symbols from packaging and consumption as constitutive materials.
Since 2004, ARoS has been in possession of a veritable treasure: the artist Per Kirkeby’s archives, which were exclusively put in the keeping of ARoS and are currently being supplemented with fresh packing cases from the artist’s extensive archives. These archives contain sketches for paintings, sculptures, decorations and scenography. And there are notebooks, books, cuttings, articles and letters as well as a large number of private photographs, collages and other visual inventions that have formed the undercurrent to the artist’s work. There are so far 1500 items in these archives.
During the summer of 2008, ARoS will present the archives in a new and spectacular manner. The research-based insight that ARoS has acquired in recent years by systematising and categorising the archives will form the handle for the exhibition: a special Kirkeby-esque method in which the artist explores his world with the eye of an archaeologist – later to allow all these sources of inspiration to converge in a host of references in the final work. Sources of inspiration of such varied character as sex workers, children’s drawings, fashion magazines, geological deposits, historical paintings and brick buildings appear side by side in Kirkeby’s peerless, phenomenal works. It is this cacophony of sources of inspiration at which the exhibition of the archives seeks to take a new and exciting look.
Seen at the street:::
Husk Mit Navn
The carzy boys and girls will be in Copenhagen soon again::::::::
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Dear Rain Drop
One more time::::
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The Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibit of work by Chadwick Rantanen. The show will include work in a variety of media, installed “without touching the gallery.” Drawn from the nostalgia of his youth and upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness, Rantanen’s selection of work will engage aspects of the system in which he grew up while illustrating the ways that he addressed such regulations.
Including paintings on paper, mixed media sculptures and video, the work will be shown on a carpet cut vaguely to the size of the gallery. By using a surface whose boundaries will instead contain the work, Rantanen will attempt to dissolve the prescribed relationship between his work and its environment. By creating intermediaries between the work and the gallery, Rantanen not only divorces his practice from the space in which it is exhibited but paradoxically draws attention to that which is being abandoned. The work in the show is given a mobile context in which to reside as a sort of step away from a reliance on the architectural space in which it is placed. Furthered in his black and white video compilation of the most austere scenes from National Geographic documentaries, the question of “neutrality” is raised not only in the installation but also in the work itself.
Chadwick Rantanen received his BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has most recently been exhibited at Artists Space in New York, Homie Gallery in Berlin, and Southern Exposure in San Francisco.
Some fucking evil and Awesome:::::::
Malmø Konsthall
