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WITCH’S TITZ- DRAWINGS 2005-2008

UNSAFE TERRITORIES
”Unsafe Territories” is the title of the this solo exhibition by Iben Toft Nørgård, which consist of a number of large-scale collages. Within the media of collage the artist explores the field of identity, body and gender in an expression which is at the same time dangerous and seductive.
Iben Toft Nørgård has since her education from DJK – Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in 2005 been working with collage as technique and expression. The materials are a combination of various images from the past that blends with the present, from old books to glittering magazines, along with 3D-medias as broken records and tape, jigsaw puzzles, embroidery and maculated paper, aiming for an expression beyond time.
The motives of the collages are figurative and narrative with a subduction of surrealism and abstraction. In the earlier works, the woman had a central position in the narratives, but the new works are involving the man too to vary the dynamic of the unsafe territories.

WITCH´S TITZ- Drawings 2005-2008
In the”black box” of the gallery, ”WITCH´S TITZ- Drawings 2005-2008”, Zven Balslev has his first soloexhibition in the gallery of 24 selected black and white drawings from 2005-2008.
Zven Balslev is educated from The Royal Danish Art Academi in 2006 and has by his original and controversial expression marked the new positions of drawing in contemporary med art. The style is raw and unpolished and combine the aesthetic of the undergroundcomic with a vital expressionism. A characteristic is also the black humour that is abstract beyond meaning, and whitch is confronting the audience with a visuel noise.

Charlotte Fogh

Mette & Kristalovas show

Beaver Projects

Dan Perjovschi at Kunsthaus Baselland

Curated by Sabine Schaschl
With his unpretentious, comic-like, political, humoristic, and ironic drawings on walls and windows, Dan Perjovschi (born in 1961 in Sibiu/Romania, lives in Bucharest) has definitely made a name for himself in the past few years. Perjovschi, who takes a keen interest in world affairs, is known in Romania also for his politically inspired performances as well as for his journalistic work for Magazine 22, a publication that came into being following the fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1987. With his artistically unique and direct language that is reminiscent of children”s drawings and Art Brut, he comments on international and local events, or on that world in which his works manifest themselves-the art scene. Equipped with a permanent marker or chalk, without having done any preliminary drawings, just with a rough idea about the content of his commentary, the artist arrives at the scene of his creative act. Dan Perjovschi takes an approach that is very specific to the venue and space in question. For the exhibition “Fair enough” staged at Kunsthaus Baselland, he has devoted his attention to the rows of windows that are a salient feature of the building. Working with daily newspapers, magazines, and an Internet connection to news agencies, the artist produced new drawings on location, and reuse his existing repertoire of drawings with a view to further developing, reinterpreting, or logically complementing adjacent drawings. Perjovschi”s drawings express vitriolic comments and provide lucid and mordant analyses. They put controversial things in a nutshell, they are polemic and critical at the same time. Most strikingly, they are straightforward, in-your-face, and direct, and they brook no indifference.

Kunsthausbaselland

Tom Sanford

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Bob and Roberta Smith | Art U Need Book Launch

Bob and Roberta Smith, Hales Gallery, Commissions East and Black Dog Publishing and would like to invite you to the launch of Bob and Roberta Smith’s new book Art U Need; My Part in the Public Art Revolution.

At 7.30pm there will be a reading by Bob and Roberta Smith from his new book and he will reveal the truth behind his incredible proposal for Trafalgar Square currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery.

This event will coincide with Jane Wilbraham’s solo show Ignoble Rot and the First Thursdays timeout event at Hales Gallery.

The book features: Lucy Harrison, Andrea Mason, Milika Muritu, Hayley Newman, Jane Wilbraham.

Tuesday 5 September 2006
“I am live on-air with a journalist. He says, “Art U Need? How much is it costing?” I tell him it’s going to cost at least the price of two kidney machines. He says “Wouldn’t the money be better spent on a kidney machine?” I tell him in the past kidney machines used to be really interesting looking, with all sorts of pipes and taps, but these days they are just a big white box that bleeps. Anyway, they would still get ruined if you left them out on a roundabout…”
Bob and Roberta Smith, 2006

Art U Need; My Part in the Public Art Revolution is a refreshing addition to the public art debate, telling the story of how Bob and Roberta Smith set about changing the world-or at least a bit of it.

Hales Gallery

EVERYDAY LIFE

By showing the group exhibition EVERYDAY LIFE Galleri Tom Christoffersen welcomes you to a humane small talk with an edge. The stories, in the simple figurative paintings by Harry Pye (UK), Krista Rosenkilde and Andreas Schulenburg (D/DK) are told at eye level and through elements known from caricature drawings, fairy tales and comic strips.

“You looks good you must be doing fine” – “Yes I have had a haircut I am feeling just fine actually”. The grammatically incorrect quote is from a conversation full of commonplaces between a fox and a hen, which in the series “Reven og hønen” (The fux and the hen) by Andreas Schulenburg ends up in a fatal result. Harry Pye uses text in his works as well. The paintings are often collaborative pieces done with his friends. Among friends happen to be a comedian who have stopped being funny, young British Muslims who’ve been shot at by the police, a former chess champion who has lost his concentration and a magician who has lost his confidence. With a sense of humour and a caring approach Harry Pye presents characters in the middle of existential contemplations. Krista Rosenkilde is like Andreas Schulenburg and Harry Pye not afraid of using the banal. But she puts certain cultural identities into play by working from a distance instead of up close. She paints bittersweet symbols on tradition and everyday life as she works with classical oppositions such as culture vs. nature and dangerous vs. harmless etc. It is exactly between these categorical oppositions and in the middle of the many clichés on everyday life that Rosenkilde points at the grey zone of contemporary living. A condition of “both-and” as incarnated by he idyllic safety of “The Shire” and it’s at the same time closed and excluding character.

EVERYDAY LIFE touches upon a certain kind of national identity and petite bourgeois self-conception and ways of acting. Or minor life-crises, joys and reflections, which prevents outlook and displaces an interest in problems affecting humanity on a larger scale. Despite the edgy issues the paintings are light and clear rather than condemning. Exactly this humoristic “go-happy”-strategy seems in all its absurdity to lower the parades and dissolve the facades from within.

Harry Pye (1973/UK) is represented by Sartorial Contemporary Art, London. The artist graduated from Winchester School of Art in1995.
Krista Rosenkilde (1981/DK) is represented by Galleri Tom Christoffersen. She will graduate from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen in 2009.
Andreas Schulenburg (1973/D+DK) is represented by Mogadishni. The artist graduated from the Royal Academy of fine Arts, Copenhagen in 2005.
Heinz Schmöller (1975/D) exhibits in Cube. He is repesented by Komet Berlin. The artist graduated from HfBK Dresden in 2006.

Tom Christoffersen