Month: February 2010
Jacob Taekker
Charlotte Fogh Contemporary is happy to introduce the video artist Jacob Taekker’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, “Cave and Reality”.
The exhibition presents his latest video installations that all focus on the human need of and drive towards communication and artistic expression. Generally, the videos revolve around man’s eternal struggle to reach the top and how to balance in the world we have constructed. The main work of the exhibition, “Cave and Reality”, therefore poses the question of what is reality and what is construction based on Platon’s famous Allegory of the Cave.
With his influence from feature films, music videos and computer games, Jacob Taekker has contributed in setting new standards for video art and has exhibited at various galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. The videos of Jacob Taekker are represented in both private collections and in the collection of Skive Museum of Art.
Maskebal – Dina Friemuth –
Copenhagen Graffiti// S-Trains…
Some new stell is runing…
Artist web//Shaunna Peterson
Søren Dahlgaard//The Breathing Room
At first glance The Breathing Room appears to be an ordinary white room.
As you enter the space – your expectations about the familiar white cube exhibition space is challenged. The walls are made from soft pvc canvas. Assisted by air, which continuously is pushed and sucked into the space behind each wall – the canvas slowly curves into a convex shape and after that a concave shape. This repetitive movement mimics human breathing. The breathing sound from the ventilator is present. It explores the performative aspects and possibilities in architecture.
The art historic context is the famous text – Inside the white cube – first published by ArtForum in 1976 by artist and writer Brian O’Doherty.
The Breathing Room was first exhibited at the Singapore Biennale in 2008. After this presentation in Copenhagen, the installation will go to Los Angeles at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery.
Also exhibited during The Breathing Room show are related works by Søren Dahlgaard, for instance The Breathing Painting, which relate to the painting and how we perceive the painting. Paintings typically have a motif – abstract or figurative. It works with colors, patterns or space.
Søren Dahlgaard takes a step back into the process and asks: What is a painting? Can a painting be something different from what we are used to? Can it behave in a certain way?
Here the painting has come to life as the painting breathes. The canvas moves slowly out – convex – and in – concave. It is a performative painting, which challenges the rules for the perception of what a painting can be.
Another work is the photo series The Perspective of Breathing, which follows the air path through the flex hose from the ventilator to the white wall.
So this show presents you with a Søren Dahlgaard without the dough, the bread or dripping paint!
Dato New Works///
Copenhagen Graffiti (Walls) ///
The Alphabet Show
Band of Bikers
In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan, Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the discarded effects of a recently deceased tenant. Exhibited for the first time at ZieherSmith and presented in a new publication of the same name from powerHouse Books, these photographs from circa 1972 offer an intimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and the woods, and a touching snapshot of a historical subculture at its carefree zenith.
The photographs bring into focus a brief, specific period of relative innocence, when middle-of-the-road Americans more often than not failed to perceive the homoerotic undertones of their most heterosexual of institutions. With conceptual light cast by issues ranging from anonymity in homosexuality and underground motorcycle chic to vernacular photography’s pop-culture ramifications, a warm and generous spirit of camaraderie pervades this subterranean survey. Like a real-world set for Scorpio Rising casually captured by an unpretentious extra, this found cache of old-school, leather party snapshots attains archeological significance.
The original individual photographs, as well as the book, will be available throughout the exhibition. The powerHouse publication also includes an essay by Scott Zieher.