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Young Egelund

The real Jonathan Monk with one of his pantings, Rune have made the works not Mr. Monk.

Nicolai Wallner

Rune Plank

UNDER MY NAILS

Galleri Tom Christoffersen presents the comprehensive group show UNDER MY NAILS with the participation of both artists of the gallery and guests. All artists has used the same point of departure; a poem by Henrik Have.

It may border to pathetic and way to subjective when the owner of the gallery takes the initiative to an exhibition, which springs from no less than a genuine passion for poetry. It gets even worse when it is combined with personal experiences of tracing the poet tombs in the Middle East and being on the track of Ferdousi, Rumi og Sadi just after momentarily having lost the mind consulting the master of metaphors – Hafiz – in the rose gardens of Shiraz. Non-the less this is why artists from the Danish and international contemporary art scene has been invited to take up the challenge and freely depart from a particular poem. Which elements have been adopted or have motivated and fascinated the particular artists is fortunately not in the hands of Galleri Tom Christoffersen. UNDER MY NAILS is a diverse exhibition and the product of 23 artists taking up a challenge.

We would like to thank Henrik Have for the permission to use the following poem from:
Turistrejse til mine elskedes dyner.

I have turned my palms towards the ceiling
and I await a fall-down
of light and angles and juices and roses

Now and then plaster and wires
and sinful words fall

God I’ve got under my nails

Participating artists:
Claus Carstensen, Elmer, Alexander Laner (D), Anders W. Ø. Larsen, Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Pia Lundqvist (S), Henrik Menné, Mogens Møller, Mie Mørkeberg, Bodil Nielsen, Allan Otte, Krista Rosenkilde, Christian Skeel, Anna Sørensen.

By invitation: Franz Beckerlee, Anders Brinch, Peter Carlsen, James Jessop (UK), Jens Robert Jørgensen, Ferdinand Ahm Kragh, Knud Odde, Torben Ribe, Jonas Hvid Søndergaard.

Tom Christoffersen

MOGADISHNI AAR

RANDI JØRGENSEN & KATRINE MALINOVSKY

”SUPER SWEET – TWISTEE TREAT – 16 FLAVOURS – IT’S A WORLD IN IT SELF”

May 18 > June 30 2007

OPENING: FRIDAY MAY 18th 5 – 8 PM
The artists will be present at the opening

MOGADISHNI AAR proudly presents the exhibition ”SUPER SWEET – TWISTEE TREAT – 16 FLAVOURS – IT’S A WORLD IN IT SELF” by Danish artists Randi Jørgensen (DK) and Katrine Malinovsky (DK). This is the artists’ second solo show at MOGADISHNI since their graduation from the Royal Danish Art Academy in 2005.

The exotic meets the everyday suburban life of Katrinebjergvej when Randi and Katrine take over the gallery, transforming it into a pineapple production. Dividing the gallery into a lobby, a superintendents’ office, a production hall and a “forgotten fair booth”, they mimic the spacing of an industrial building. In doing that, the artists elaborate not only on the history of this specific gallery space as a former industrial building, but they also alter and question the typical gallery setting.

The name ”SUPER SWEET – TWISTEE TREAT – 16 FLAVOURS – IT’S A WORLD IN IT SELF” functions not only as the title of the exhibition, but also as the brand or slogan for this specific pineapple production, promoting the pineapple species “Twistee Treat”. Disguised as a factory that invites visitors to have a peak into the fascinating history of the brand “Twistee Treat”, Randi & Katrine’s exhibition draws not only on the different historical and symbolic references of the fruit but equally the popular cultural use of the pineapple.

Used in Indian feasts and rites, as gifts for kings and noblemen and as dinner decoration extravaganzas, the pineapple has a long history of symbolizing hospitality, welcome and good cheer. Today the pineapple is an easy accessible commodity, and it can be found in most grocery stores, not only as fresh fruit but also canned or as flavour in juice and ice creams. In the installation this long and diverse history of the pineapple is unfolded, showing today’s industrialized mass produced version which is used on Hawaii pizza’s and on commercial postcards, but not leaving out the celebration of its rarity, exoticism and visual attractiveness in earlier eras.

The works by Randi Jørgensen and Katrine Malinovsky are a result of their common interest in a combination of architecture, objects and the narrative along with a fascination of large-scale installations where a dynamic interchange between the viewer and a specific space can take place.

MOGADISHNI AAR welcomes you in the gallery!

Randi & Katrine’s next solo exhibition will take place at Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, opening in February, 2008

Mogadishni

Thorgej Steen Hansen, Christian Schmidt-Rasmusse, Lise Harlev and the girls Vibeke Mejlvang & Sofie Hesselholt made the best works.

:::::Alot of good works from EXIT 2007::::::

ME ODIO Y QUIERO COMPRAR

GALERIA ENRIQUE GUERRERO

is pleased to invite you to join us to
the opening of the group show of the artists:

Collective Banquels, Claudia Garza, Jose Jímenez Ortíz,
Basim Magdy, Metapong, Ernesto Moncada,
Carlos Olvera, Collective Okay Mountain, Ozmo,
Jésica López, Jessica Salinas, Xochimiztli Sosa

Galeria Enrique

Objectnotfound

ITALO ZUFFI
TAKING NO SIDES BY SIDE
May 12 – June 23, 2007
Saturday, Saturday May 12, 6 – 8 pm

Newman Popiashvili Gallery is pleased to present the second solo show by Italian artist Italo Zuffi.

Italo Zuffi will present two new sculptural works. The first one – La replica meticulously recreates the building blocks in marble from Carrara and a carved tiny semi-precious stone. Each group of objects is a one to one, exact reproduction of the original bricks. These work comment on the human nature and our desire to build and destroy. Since childhood we play with Lego and Tinker Toys with this idea of constructing and razing. Italo Zuffi embarks on an absurdist task to manually replicate industrially made materials in precious stone. La replica has a strong connection to architecture since the bricks refer to the ABC of the construction. The presence of small toy-bricks, carved in a semi-precious stone, and placed on the top of some of the ‘real’ bricks, is meant to suggest the often destructive attitude typical of the childhood, in contrast with the more conscious and stable awareness of adult time. The concepts of construction and destruction are here, subtly, singled out as the two primary activities between which human nature is constantly oscillating.

The second set of works, titled Masters Spanning (2007), is a group of geometrical, rectangular ceramics with writings on them. The lines modelled on the surface of these works are, in fact, a combination of names of artists that Italo Zuffi has been studying joined in such a way that it is not possible to discern where the domain of one artist ends and that of the second one begins e. g. Agnes Martin Kippenberger or Douglas Gordon Matta Clark. Through these arranged names the artist wants to state the inability of clearly establishing the boundaries of memory and knowledge, as well as their range of action and influence. These names also testify the perpetual struggle in trying to classify or organize the information stored in our memory with particular reference to the artist’s own background and artistic training.

Italo Zuffi has been shown extensively throughout Europe. His recent solo exhibitions were at FPAC, Palermo, and at Museo dell’Arredo Contemporaneo, Russi in Italy; CRAC Alsace, in France; Altkirch and Volume, Rome; Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, among others. His work has been included in group shows at Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan; Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne; Coleman Project Space, London; W139, Amsterdam; Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok; Palazzo Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and De Appel, Amsterdam.

NP Gallery