We Came in Search of Immortality, but Found Reality


We Came in Search of Immortality, but Found Reality

With the title We Came in Search of Immortality, but Found Reality the studio collective Golden Enterprise changes the groundfloor of Overgaden to a comprehensive site-specific installation with art pieces that unfolds between the limits of good and bad, light and darkness, order and chaos.

Artists:
Rikke Benborg, Maiken Bent, Jacob Borges, Anders Bojen &
Kristoffer Ørum, Jeannette Ehlers, Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Fie Norsker,
Torben Ribe, Stefan Rotvit, Jakob Tækker.

Overgaden

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EUR PALLET


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.

For more information about EUROPALLE m.m.

Tom Christoffersen

FROM THOUGHT TO ACTION


FROM THOUGHT TO ACTION

An exhibition featuring new works by Tal R (DK), John Körner (DK), Ron
English (UK), David Shrigley (UK), Stephen Powers (US), HuskMitNavn
(DK), Superflex (DK), Jeppe Hein (DK), Jes Brinch (DK), Jakob Boeskov
(DK) og Henrik Vibskov (DK), Andrew Schoultz (US), EINE (UK), Kasper
Sonne (DK), Mads Lynnerup (US/DK), Peter Funch (US/DK), Mikkel
Grønnebæk ,(DK), Jesper Elg (DK), Zven Balslev (DK), Thorgej Steen
Hansen (DK) og Todd James (US) and you…

The exhibition is curated by V1 Gallery. It opens 03.07.08 at 5 PM and
runs until 06.07.08 when the festival closes.

V1 Gallery has invited 21 artists to create poster art works on the
subject of “From Thought to Action”. These posters will be posted on a
40 meter long wall at Roskilde Festival. New posters will be posted
every day to create a large scale interactive art work. At the same
time two containers will serve as both gallery and poster workshop,
where the audience is invited to create their own works on the same
subject. The best of the audience’s posters will be posted on a daily
basis.
In the gallery, there will also be a very limited number of free
posters every day for the audience. The workshop is managed by V1
Gallery and some of the artists from the project.

For further information on the project you are more than welcome to
contact us.

We hope to see you

V1 Gallery

V1 Gallery

Jamison Brosseau, Bendix Harms, Federico Herrero, and Ulrich Wulff


Jamison Brosseau, Bendix Harms, Federico Herrero, and Ulrich Wulff

Curated by Eddie Martinez
June 27-August 1, 2008
Reception: Friday, June 27, 6-8 pm

Artist and curator, Eddie Martinez brings together four painters who each translate his visions of the world onto canvas with bold tones, expressive strokes and an idiosyncratic visual language.

Jamison Brosseau was born in Iowa in 1976. He received his masters from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He currently had his first solo show at Galleri Loyal, Stokholm.

Bendix Harms was born in Münster, Germany in 1967 and now resides in Hamburg. He shows with Anton Kern Gallery, New York and has been included in exhibitions at Galleri Faruschou, Copenhagen, Denmark and Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich, among others.

Federico Herrero was born in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1978, where he lives and works. He shows with Pablo Leon de la Barra in London and Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf. Group exhibitions include biennials in Moscow, Prague, Singapore, and Venice, where he won the 2001 Golden Lion for the best artist under 35.

Ulrich Wulff was born in Kempten, Germany in 1975. He lives and works in Berlin. His work has been seen recently in group exhibitions at Salon 94 and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York and Gio Marconi, Milan, among others. He currently has a solo show at Galerie Gernd Kugler, Innsbruck.

zieher Smith

Repeat after me: I AM a Revolutionary


Repeat after me: I AM a Revolutionary

Michele O’Marah and Henry Taylor

Javier Peres is pleased to present Michele O’Marah and Henry Taylor’s Repeat after me: I AM a Revolutionary. The exhibition is comprised of painting, sculpture, works on paper, and video, centering around the revolutionary figure and Black Panther leader Huey Newton.

Michele O’Marah approaches the subject through a video recreation of a 1973 interview between Newton and William F. Buckley, which took place at Trinity University as part of Buckley’s television program Firing Line. Interested in the drastically disparate backgrounds of Newton, a black, grass roots political icon, and Buckley, a wealthy, conservative blue blood, O’Marah dissects and pieces back together their substantive and unglamorous discussion about the broad topic of revolution. Using the original dialogue, O’Marah enlists non-actors, artists Henry Taylor, and Maynard Monrow to play the parts of Newton and Buckley. In addition to the video piece, O’Marah will display hand-made set pieces, works on paper, and photographic portraits of each character.

In addition to playing the role of Huey Newton, Henry Taylor will present several paintings inspired by the tumultuous life of the former Black Panther leader. Growing up in California at the height of the Black Panther movement, Taylor has had an ongoing interest in and connection to black political movements. Taylor’s paintings frequently address class struggle and racism often incorporating found objects and scraps into his frenetic and often biting painting. Taylor’s work will focus on the mythic political figure of Newton, as well as the equally controversial aspects of his storied, sordid personal struggle with violence and substance abuse.

Peres Projects