MOGADISHNI CPH
BEAU CHAMBERLAIN (b. 1976/US)
”SOMETIMES“
January 11. – February 17. 2007
MOGADISHNI CPH is proud to present the solo exhibition by the American artist Beau Chamberlain: Sometimes. Chamberlain works with paintings and his technical refined works can be found somewhere between the abstract and the figurative in their combination of individual botanical and organic details placed in an undefined space where the background often is filled with rich pastel shades. Chamberlain doesn’t work on canvases but on wooden panels upon which the motives are depicted with a remarkable attention to details and where the individual parts collectively form a spherical, romantic universe characterized by a certain ease in the expression. With a way of seeing which borders on macro-zoom Chamberlain examines not only the leaves of nature but also its plants, leaves and small animals but also its peculiar forms of mutation. The viewer is given an insight into a playful, poetic world with swimming turtles, floating butterflies and trees upside down. The motives are scrupulously “hung” on the surface like “festoons” which dexterously drift together in a neat rhythm.
In the exhibition Sometimes Chamberlain shows new paintings which are an extension of the artists´ continual exploration of the rich detailing of nature. Added to the works “still-life”-like expression are light movements and a distinctive “flow” which sends one’s eye floating into a weightless sphere populated by empty cocoons, hollow trees, tiny winged animals and spherical poetry. The works are characterized by something calming and soothing while a number of additional layers are hidden behind the elegant composed flow of details – layers which only are revealed on closer inspection.
Chamberlain is born in Portland, Oregon in the USA and received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2003. His work has been presented in exhibitions at Jessica Murray Projects and at Nicole Klagsbrun in New York and his works was shown at the MOGADISHNI exhibition “Chelsea Peak” in December 2005. Chamberlain lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
MOGADISHNI CPH looks forward to see you at the opening reception Thursday January 11. at 5-8 Pm.
Please check out www.mogadishni.com for more information or contact < >the gallery
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday 11 AM-5 PM
Saturday 12-3 PM
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MOGADISHNI CPH
ANDREW GUENTHER (b. 1976/US)
“THE SLAP OF BIRD SHIT ON WET PAVEMENT”
January 11. – February 17. 2007
MOGADISHNI CPH is proud to present the solo exhibition by the American artist Andrew Guenther: The Slap of Bird Shit on Wet Pavement. The title of the exhibition is intended to evoke a sound connected to the way the works has been created: a soft base is “hit” by compact materials, which again is “hit” by softer materials. The substances come from different places and the particles are transformed during the working process to a new subject and recognizable figurations. The final image is unlike the slap of bird shit on pavement a highly calculated “mess” and the elaborated picture surface with its respectively vigorous rich and running, fluorescent layers invites the viewer to act as anthropologist and rediscover his own history in the motif. The images emerge as a kind of ghost like, un-focused hallucinations, which mirrors and enhances the artists’ personal experience of the world characterized by a pseudo-order clearly rooted in an unmanageable chaos. A world in which social and cultural mechanisms are out of play and where impulsivity and the vulgar prevails and where an overall meaning in the widespread destructive and negative energies surrounding the human being seems hopelessly hard to fine.
The Brooklyn-based Guenther is inspired not only by the iconography, music and colours of horror movies but also by the gothic blood bath in the etchings of Francisco Goya and the demon visions in the spectacular paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. The works of Guenther are a potent and – not the least- decadent mixture of zombie-cadavers, death metal, bestial human beings and formless animals, rotten sculls, hippie-kitsch, goats, owls, slime, carcasses and stoned teenagers. In his pictures, which often depict the decay of death as mento mori like images, the human figure is examined from a grotesque perspective. The darker side of life, aspects of the unheimliche however never quite overshadow the peace and strange beauty which after all exude from the often symmetrical compositions.
The viewer encounters a number of magical interpretations of a joint and deeply embedded fascination of the cruel and tragically bizarre in such a way in which we can enhance uncontrolled, natural instincts. The sometimes “primitive” aesthetics of Guenther’s works – which also comes in the form of masks, coconuts and complementary colours placed side by side– adds a raw energy and a great visual effect to the works but also helps to clarify an arbitrary, original or basic experience.
Andrew Guenther is born in Wheaton, Illinois and graduated from Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University in 2000. His works has previously among other places been shown at Perry Rubenstein Gallery (N.Y.), David Castillo Gallery (Miami) and Daniel Silverstein Gallery (N.Y.).
The artist will be present at the opening January 11. at 5-8 PM.
MOGADISHNI CPH looks forward to see you at the opening reception Thursday January 11. at 5-8 Pm.
Please check out www.mogadishni.com for more information or contact the gallery
Opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday 11 AM-5 PM
Saturday 12-3 PM
MOGADISHNI CPH
Carl Jacobsensvej 16 opg. 6 3.sal
2500 Valby/Copenhagen
Denmark
Tel 0045 32543535
Fax 0045 32543545
mail@mogadishni.com
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Denmark
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