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Here are some very nice pieces from Sydhavn (Copenhagen).

Alexander Tovborg artist web 1 of 26


The next week i will show young Danish artist`s web page.
The first one, are the young talent from Bendixen-art.

Alexander Tovborg´s work creates a panoptic view over actual and virtual spaces. Through split perspectives, multiplications of ideas and obsessive reconstructions, his drawings and sculptures unfold as fragments of storytelling. Minor bits of a grand narrative seem to be simulating the distanced scenarios that linger underneath the works like unfinished thoughts. Filtrated through Tovborg´s subtle mockery, they function as epilogues, or sequels, to stories of iconic importance. A range of epic personas and cultural symbols participate: Priests, giants and pilgrims are set amongst churches, mansions, graveyards and bizarre divinities. Holes and wells appear as apocalyptic allegories; the lone ranger is transformed into a struggling crowd of people. Actions of slippery status are visualized in static glimpses. Tovborg´s hardcore fabulations privilege twisted ceremonial events where human beings encounter agony, fear and religious craving.

Both drawings and objects hint at a possible future emergence while the present seems on the verge of disappearance. The fusion of past and future in the present is a recurrent denominator for both content and style. Anachronisms saturate the materials and their combinatorial clashes. Mahogany laminate is carefully coupled with cheap wood; plastic hole-paper is overdrawn with pen writing; ceramic sculptures are contrasted with their original clay models. Tovborg´s objects bare their bones. The manufacturing processes perform as integral parts of the work. The tensions inherent in the materials are exposed and the functionality disrupted as the sculptural form is investigated. Thus a mini-golf lane is submitted to fantasies of death: closed in on itself as a tomb, its game-function is ironically futile and its ephemeral decay becomes a poetic statement. Likewise, minutiae “sketches” made out of tape investigate space with self-destructive delicacy and beauty. Tovborg pulls out his art historical references without reproducing them as empty vessels. Within his haphazard aesthetics, a distillation of baroque decadence sharpens his framework of illusion and thoughtful voyeurism.

Tovborg´s spaces could be subjective emotions transformed into generalized conditions. Rather than pointing to an individual narrator, the fictional communities or epochs become the main characters. Identification is displaced yet the distance fuels a critical freedom. Tovborg constructs a complex observatory, which casts a mirror image back on itself and complicates perception. The burlesque, melancholic impossibility of each scenario – reminiscent of the absurd pleasure in Beckett´s writings – communicates the flip sides of society.

Ida MarieBertelsen,
Stud. Mag. Kunsthistorie, Københavns Universitet
(Ma in Aural and visual culture, Goldsmiths college)

  • The young talent
  • Bendixen-Art

    • Jacob Tækker @ Mogadishni


    Jacob Tækker ”Satellite”

    OPENING: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16.

    MOGADISHNI AAR proudly presents the video installation ”Satellite” by Danish artist Jacob Tækker (b. 1977). Jacob Tækker received his education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

    The exhibition ”Satellite” transforms the White Cube gallery space into a Black Box containing his large scale video installation. Tækker positions himself as the performer in his work, and has developed a method that mixes shots of scaled model settings with a blue/green screen technique to immerse himself into his models. This creates a visual expression combining old-fashioned trick filming with modern collage techniques. The 10 minute film is shown as one endless loop, but contains a certain narrative development and eventual climax.

    The ”Satellite” project is inspired by the Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev. He became stranded on the MIR space station for 311 days, 20 hours and 1 minute, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. He holds the record for the most time spent in space by a human being.

    The film is set in outer space on an MIR-resembling space station inhabited by only one man, who is the focal point of the film. The man leads a trivial and uniform daily life, weightless and circling the earth. The images show a person isolated and lonely, as if he himself were the satellite. The film thus centers on the feeling of alienation, not just from society, but also from oneself. The artist thereby depicts the emotional nuances of a person’s loneliness, in the periphery of human and physical space.

    In his artistic oeuvre, Jacob Tækker deals with emotional conditions, the routines of daily life, the human imagination and reasons of our acts. The video installation also shows the tragicomic sides of life, through images that often manipulate dimensions and comment on the relation between fiction and reality.

  • Mogadishni

    • Michele Pred

    Untitled (chandelier), 2006, mixed media.

    Breaking the Glass Ceiling, 2007, mixed media.

    Double Edge, 2006, mixed media.

    Untitled, 2007, mixed media.

    Michele Pred – ‘Predilections’@ Nancy Hoffman Gallery

    “Predilections” is the next exhibition at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, a show of new works by San Francisco-based artist Michele Pred. The exhibition opens on February 10th and continues through March 15th. There will be a reception for the artist in the gallery on Saturday, February 24th, from 4-6 pm.

    Pred’s title for the show, “Predilections,” is both a play on the artist’s name, and her penchant for incorporating contemporary culture and politics in her art. The exhibition is dedicated in honor of her father Allan Pred, who passed away January 5, 2007. He was Professor of Cultural Geography at University of California Berkeley for 45 years and greatly influenced the themes used in her art. This is revealed in Pred’s predilection toward work that comments on contemporary society, while plumbing what might be considered its cultural artifacts, the range of objects now forbidden for travel, and using these objects as her sculptural palette and material. Pred’s preference for unconventional materials has been constant throughout her work; she employs materials associated with memory of time, place, and events. Most of her materials come from San Francisco’s International Airport, these material have been confiscated since 9/11/2001.

    Pred says of her raw materials ”the diverse array of assembled ‘dangerous’ items may be regarded as the cultural residue of a particular moment in history…each small tool, like each of us, bears some weight of the changed world.” While 9/11 changed the nature of Pred’s palette, the artist has used sharp objects to create sculpture for the past 18 years, a visual metaphor for her personal pain, sometimes using these objects to create hearts; a poignant contrast of shape and substance.

    Pred has expanded her vocabulary of image, form, and materials in her second New York show revealing the strength of her conceptual underpinnings, the thoroughness of her research, and the range of her sculptural expression which can only continue to blossom.

  • Nancy Hoffman