SUMMERTIME 08


SUMMERTIME 08
26. juni – 9. August 2008

Once again Galleri Christoffer Egelund is proud to open the big group show SUMMERTIME 08. Visitors will be presented for a fantastic diversity of works by the manifold artists of the gallery.

Rikke Benborg, who just received the 3-year work grant of the Danish Arts Foundation, will among others exhibit one of her newest video works. And Anders Brinch has just finished some brilliant large scale paintings, that can be seen as well. Furthermore the exhibition will be displaying new fascinating works by Christian Finne, Jon Stahn, Melou Vanggaard, Karin Kaster, Rasmus Rosengaard, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, Christina Hamre, Thierry Feuz, Maria Torp and Theis Wendt.

Furthermore Galleri Christoffer Egelund presents a line of specially invited guest artists. On this occasion it will be possible to experience the Cuban artist, Odey Curbelo Urquijo’s paintings, who gives a little foretaste of what to expect in the Fall, when he on September 26th opens his soloshow in the project room of the gallery. Moreover, visitors will be introduced to the young promising Swiss video artists, Katja Loher, who for the first time in Denmark will show her unique video sculpture ”Video Optica”. Besides this visitors will be able to see new interesting works by René Holm, Crystel Ceresa, David Dellagi and Mikkel S. Andersen.

Galleri Christofher Egelund

Morten Buch – The Last Resort


Morten Buch – The Last Resort

Has the depiction of reality become the last bastion of contemporary art and where painting will triumph over other media? Of course the Avante-garde movement had already rendered the genre given to the representation of things – the still life – especially fertile ground on which to experiment with new techniques and forms of representation. Pablo Picasso was not painting still lifes around 1907; “he was making a picture” (Margrit Rowell) and thereby revolutionising modern art.

Morten Buch, born in 1970 in Copenhagen, belongs to a generation of Scandina-vian painters, who combine the legacy of Danish Expressionism with the coolness of American Pop-art. Buch magnifies banal, commonplace objects, which also have a place in the repertoire of still life painting, and produces paintings of enormous proportions: vases, pipes, shoes, and tins. His heavily layered oil paintings reveal a veritable feast of sensuous paintings that confront us directly, carry us along, lull us, but still leave us bemused. As a result of their exaggerated formats of up to 300 x 300 cm, supposedly familiar things become divorced from their familiar and quintessential form and appear alien to us; as alien as some of the bizarre manipulations we see in today’s culture of digital imagery. For this young generation of artists, ‘The Last Resort’ is not a matter of depicting reality, but rather its ambiguous extension into other possible visual worlds.

Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven is launching Morten Buch’s first solo exhibition outside Denmark and, in cooperation with Horsens Kunstmuseum in Denmark, the second venue between 4.10. and 7.12.2008, will show works from recent years as well as the very latest paintings.

Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven

UNA ESTACA EN EL LODO, UN HOYO EN LA CINTA.


A Stake in the Mud, A Hole in the Reel. Land Art’s Expanded Field 1968–2008′

Borrowing its title from the writings of Robert Smithson, the programme revisits a selection of moving-image works that form part of the historical memory of Land Art, through and alongside more recent productions by contemporary artists. Indeed a concern with remoteness, together with the powerful allure of specific sites, weaves throughout the films’ itinerary, which includes the sewers of New York and Vienna (Gordon Matta-Clark, Hans Schabus), the deserts of California (Mario Garcia Torres), the mountains of the Basque country (Ibon Aranberri), and the beaches of Taveuni (Nikolaj Recke).

Maria Thereza Alves · Francis Alÿs · Ibon Aranberri · Marinus Boezem · Donna Conlon · Jan Dibbets · Barry Flanagan · Cypriem Gaillard · Mario García Torres · Nancy Holt · Richard Long · Walter de Maria · Gordon Matta-Clark · Dennis Oppenheim · Damián Ortega · Nikolaj Recke · Thiago Rocha Pitta · Hans Schabus · Gerry Schum · Robert Smithson · Jordan Wolfson

Curated by Latitudes

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Naoto Kawahara


Naoto Kawahara
“Ouroboros”

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our fifth solo exhibition
“Ouroboros” with Naoto Kawahara. Around five new paintings will be shown
in this exhibition.

In 2005 Taka Ishii Gallery hosted Kawahara’s “NU” exhibition. Kawahara
then participated in the group exhibition “Attention to Detail” (The FLAG
Art Foundation, New York) curated by Chuck Close in 2008. Kawahara will also
participate in the group exhibition “Diana und Aktaion: Der Verbotene Blick
auf die Nacktheit” (Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf) this October. He has
been active internationally and his works have attracted increasing
attention in recent years.

“This time, I worked as though painting an unorthodox Vanitas while
thinking about the ominous atmosphere in daily life and the compelling
instinct that enables us to constantly forget and paralyze it. Although my
expression is realistic, rather than depicting the subject itself, I hope to
express it like an image emerging in the mind.”

Naoto Kawahara

In this solo show entitled “Ouroboros” (referring to a serpent that formed
a circle by swallowing its own tail, and a symbol of Ancient Greece),
Kawahara quotes the works of Munch, an artist whom he feels “paradoxically
depicts images of death, whilst also expressing life through themes such as
sexuality and puberty.” In this exhibition he reexamines these paintings,
which are infused with both energy and despair.

Kawahara has produced distinctive realist paintings that precisely reproduce
photographs of people and landscapes drawn from his surroundings or scenes
from films. In recent years, he has been creating paintings that reinterpret
scenes extracted from classic masterpieces by artists such as Durer,
Balthus and Rembrandt. Through such “re-envisioned paintings”, Kawahara
pursues the theme of “creating a sense of deja vu through the repetitive
use of old masters’ themes, while reflecting on archetypes of images valid
today,” and presents this theme in his exhibition.

Taka Ishii Gallery