Month: April 2007

Minuit Vernissage friday 27. april

Ulrik Møller

Seagulls, 2007, Oil on canvas, 30 x 35cm

Exhibition dates: 27th April – 26th May 2007

Hales Gallery is pleased to present Ulrik Møller’s first solo show in the UK.

Møller occasionally takes his inspiration from Berlin but more commonly from his native country Denmark and in particular the island where he grew up. His subjects are landscapes and cityscapes and it is the straightforwardness of his work that makes it so arresting. Each of his delicate oil paintings utilise the familiar language of historical landscape painting from his native Scandinavia, in particular the Golden Age of Danish Painting (1800-1880). However, unlike most paintings from this period, Møller’s work is not preoccupied with Gothic Romanticism, but rather the plain and simple aesthetic.

Møller’s paintings are discreetly melancholic with most scenes being from dusk or dawn where an expanse of lake, field or sea leads the viewer’s eye to the horizon. The sensitive rendering of trees, village houses, morning mists, beaches or boats leave the observer with a strange sense of familiarity. The character of each painting has a closeness to reality but the lightness and fluency of Møller’s work gives each piece an ephemeral nature which hints at an underlining idealism.

Strangely, the ambiguity in Møller’s paintings makes them all the more engaging. The loneliness and isolation of each scene draws the viewer in but the work holds no answers. Some motifs used by Møller are reminiscent of an old rural way of life, others an ecological feel; a wind farm or a helicopter spraying fields. Regardless of the ‘mise en scène’ the paintings retain detachment from what they depict. For Møller, his paintings are a highly personal project where each work becomes a place for meditation and transcendence. His adoption of a 19th Century style has the effect of presenting a very modern looking view of contemporary Danish landscape.

Ulrik Møller was born in 1962 in Vester Ǻby, Denmark and now lives and works between Copenhagen and Berlin. Møller has recently had solo shows at Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå, 2007 (Denmark), Skovgaard Museet, Viborg, 2006 (Denmark) and Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, 2006 (Denmark).

..::Graham Hudson::..

Bought this piece to day, each day the work will get more tape on it.

Graham Hudson is based in Los Angeles until summer 2007.
Recent projects have included two months in Nairobi Kenya with Triangle arts trust, and six months in ‘residence’ on the Parade Ground of Chelsea College of Art and Design next to Tate Britain.
Hudson’s practice involves a variety of mediums and an ever-evolving array of materials, treading a line between sculpture and installation, his work evolves in response to places and events. Addressing subjects including political and religious ideology, advertising, media, and the nature of the art object, his concerns range from the moral and social, to the aesthetic and the common-place.
His work has the recurring theme of juxtaposition, where the apparent and implied symbolism of his objects is often contradicted and undermined by the methods and materials of their construction. Materials include discarded furniture, pound store plastics, home and garden decor, turntables, fans, bin bags, lighting, and a lot of screws, cable ties and a varitey of tapes.

Rokeby

New work fra Troels Carlsen

A new work from Troels Carlsen, one of the young Danish talent.

Troels Carlsen

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::::Private collection:::::

This morning we went to a private collection in Brussels, it was amazing, so many good works and the house was very beatiful and BIG….

Art Brussels 2007

:::A lot of good art @ Art Brussels. Here are some of it, enjoy:::

Olafur Eliasson

Jeppe Hein

Chris Johanson

Jonathan Meese

Tom Sandberg 2 PS1

TOM SANDBERG: PHOTOGRAPHS 1989 – 2006
February 11, 2007 – May 7, 2007

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Norwegian photographer Tom Sandberg in the United States. The presentation features more than thirty photographs taken over the past decade, including the premiere of several new works. Tom Sandberg is on view in the Second Floor Main Gallery from February 11 through May 7, 2007.

Working for almost thirty years, exclusively with large format, black-and-white film, Sandberg has produced a remarkable body of work that is consistent in its vision and imbued with a sense of mystery and great depth of feeling. Whether he depicts sublime snow-covered mountains, a car parked in the street, the head of an infant, or a spectral house shrouded in fog, his pictures are about what it means to be alive.

Many of Sandberg’s pictures are aerial views—the earth seen from above, in a sense, in a state of suspension. One of his most hauntingly beautiful pictures is an image of a plane seeming to hover just a few feet above a runway. He returns time and again to pictures of the sun, the ocean, endless clouds, and the horizon. In some the image is barely visible, as if testing the limits of what the eye can see. Sandberg’s work is about photography, about the act of seeing, and ultimately about being in the world.

Tom Sandberg (b. 1953) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He has been included in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States over the last three decades, including The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; International Center of Photography, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Sandberg’s work is included in the permanent collections of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; among others.

This exhibition, organized by P.S.1 Curatorial Advisor Bob Nickas, is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989 – 2006 is supported by the Office for
Contemporary Art Norway and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.
Additional funding provided by the Consul General, Royal Norwegian
Consulate General, NY and The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

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Nils Staerk