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Jeppe Hein @ Nicolai Wallner
It is a great pleasure for Galleri Nicolai Wallner to present Milieu Social
a new installation by Danish artist Jeppe Hein.
Combining sculpture and installation with architecture and technology, Jeppe Hein sets up a dialogue between work, viewer and site. Like other of Hein’s work the particular installation for Milieu Social involves the physical presence of the viewer set against a pattern of minimal forms.
Milieu Social presents two rooms, one containing bicycle and the other a large mobile consisting of mirrored disks suspended from the ceiling. The two parts of the installation are connected by simple but ingenious machinery that allows the viewer to animate the mobile by moving the pedals of the bicycle.
Each of the mirrors in the mobile presents new views of the visitors caught in the middle of the seamless gallery space. Surrounded by mirrors, you become at once actor and audience, viewer and viewed, and your reflected image is simultaneously fractured and multiplied.
Ironically the person that is powering the work is at the same time excluded from seeing it. After taking seat in contraption it become obvious that a dividing wall obstructs the view of the mobile. Hein contests the accepted conventions of viewing and presents an energetic and playfully antagonistic relationship between art and audience. We are encouraged to participate in the creation of the artwork but are denied access to it. Hein likes to tease the viewer and carefully examines our individual and socially conditioned responses.
Importantly Hein’s artistic production contains its fair share of humor. There is an absurd fascination of overtly complex machinery and innovation. Though not necessarily the full answer to the world’s demand for clean energy, pedal power technology seems to have its own strange allure. It represents a certain causality that both puzzles and challenges the viewer.
With Milieu Social Hein seems to point to a new understanding of the exhibition space as a social environment. The exhibition deftly subverts preconceived notions making the viewer both instigator and object.
Jeppe Hein currently has a large solo exhibition at ARoS Kunstmuseum (Aarhus). He has previously had solo exhibitions at several other prestigious institutions including Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Tate Liverpool (Liverpool), Spregel Museum (Hannover), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Frac Île-de-France (Paris), Sculpture Centre (New York), Musée d’Art contemporain de Nîmes (Nîmes), and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York).
Studio visit Alexander Tovborg
Alexander Tovborg
Alexander Tovborg – Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Alexander Tovborg
It is a great pleasure to announce that Galleri Nicolai Wallner will represent young Danish artist Alexander Tovborg (b. 1983). Alexander Tovborg has studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bilden Künste in Karlsruhe and is currently a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from which he will take his degree in the Spring of 2010.
Tovborg explores different genres of art including painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. He creates compelling figurative and metaphysical imagery that seems to be drawn from his own internal imaginations as well as combined with elements from Western visuality and foreign cultures and religions. Tovborg seems to find a sincere and genuine expression in religious and spiritual art that he transforms into paintings and sculptures – creating his own myths in the process. His work presents a series of figures that act almost as arch types summoned from the interplay between collective unconscious and individual imagination. Religion or perhaps more precise spirituality plays an important role in the imagining of his works and it is obvious that the search for inner enlightenment is pivotal for Tovborg.
Not afraid of depicting the humble or the elevated, Tovborg examines man’s eternal relation to both the mundane and the spiritual. In his most recent works he has also begun to incorporate different elements of popular culture in particular music. It seems like Tovborg has found a new source of energy in the glossy products of the contemporary music industry comparative to that of spirituality and religion.
Tovborg’s work is marked by a unique vision and a rarely seen sincerity – we look forward to present his first solo exhibition in the gallery Autumn 2010. For more information please contact the gallery.
