Shirin Neshat


SHIRIN NESHAT – Women without Men

The international video artist Shirin Neshat’s latest work, Women without Men, will be exhibited at ARoS.
It is the world premiere of this major video cycle consisting of five video works.
Since her breakthrough in the 1990s with the photographic series Women of Allah, Neshat has focused on themes like genders, oppression of women, life in exile, and East versus West on the background of a Middle Eastern context.
The new works based on a novel by the Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur narrate the ‘close-knit’ life stories of five women finding refuge in a garden, which becomes a kind of utopic space.
The narrative style of Women without Men connects to the magical-realist tradition. The visuals are incredible beautiful and the narratives saturated with despair and anxiety. As in previous works – for Shirin Neshat art will always be a balancing act of the universal and the culturally specific.

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Simon Keenleyside


Rokeby presents Simon Keenleyside’s second solo exhibition at the gallery in which he continues to examine the formal and psychological possibilities of landscape.

Keenleyside’s recent paintings explore places on the fringes of his Essex home; peripheral or marginal sites. Formal devices that the artist employs in the new work are the inclusion of geometrically patterned walls, and stacked formal blocks of colour in the form of shipping containers. Both devices position themselves within the genre of abstract painting. As with the grid, the prevailing motif of Modern art, these structures are used both to explore the real and what is literally and figuratively beyond and behind that reality. And as with earlier work the new canvases resonate with the shifting spaces of personal memory, which comes in part from the artist returning to the biographical sites of his childhood.

Rokeby Gallery

Lisbeth Eugenie Christensens "Quiet Please"


Velkommen til Lisbeth Eugenie Christensens soloudstilling “Quiet
Please” fredag den 8. februar 2008 kl. 17-19.

Donn Roca har før vist Lisbeth Eugenie Christensens stærke værker i
gruppesammenhæng, men nu kommer udstillingen der viser hendes format.
Store malerier og intense tegninger får plads i galleriet under
titlen “Quiet Please.” Der vises nye værker.

Lisbeth Eugenie Christensen, f. 1969, er uddannet på Institut for
Visuel Design, Designskolen Kolding 1990-1995.

Donnroca