Month: August 2008

Certain movies leave unforgettable traces in our memory – or do they?
– What do we actually remember when a movie makes an impression on us?

ROOM I
Cecilia Westerberg takes Boris Pasternak’s partly autobiographical novel Dr. Zhivago as her point of departure in her solo exhibition – Looking for Lara – and works with different aspects of displacement in the individual and collective memory. In the first part of the exhibition Cecilia Westerberg takes her starting point in a number of interviews, with people who have seen the classical film Dr. Zhivago from 1965. Westerberg examines, through simple questions about which scenes, figures or things that has made the greatest impression, how our memory of Dr. Zhivago is part of our collective image-bank and therefore collective memory. And at the same time is an entirely different part of our individual memory. In the first room of the exhibition Cecilia Westerberg is showing oil paintings with scenes from Dr. Zhivago. The scenes are chosen partly from the answers from the interviews.

ROOM II
In the second room of the exhibition Cecilia Westerberg takes her point of departure in her own journey to Russia and focuses on the interaction between fiction and reality. In Spring 2008 Cecilia Westerberg traveled to Peredelkino, where Boris Pasternak lived and wrote the book Dr. Zhivago. In this part of the exhibition Westerberg once again focuses on how fiction meets reality. This time though, it’s through her own experience of the odyssey from (film) fiction to reality – and finally her meeting with Russia. Westerberg especially focuses on her experience of the Americanized film version of Dr. Zhivago and a contemporary Russia year 2008. The account of Westerberg’s journey has turned into a video, oil paintings and aquarelles from Moscow, which will be shown in the second room of the exhibition.

The film Dr. Zhivago is based on a book by the Russian author Boris Pasternak. In 1958 he received the Nobel Price in Literature for this book.
Dr. Zhivago is no. 36 in the American Film Academy’s Top 100 in the last 100 year.

Cecilia Westerberg (1967) works with video/ -animation, paintings and drawings. Cecilia has previously worked with movies as a thematically starting point, for instance at her latest solo-exhibition in Frankfurt, spring 2008. Here Andrei Tarkovskys war movie Ivan’s Childhood (where World War II is portrayed though the eyes of a child) was her starting point. Cecilia has exhibited in several international exhibitions ex. In South Korea, France, Germany, Great Britain, She is currently participating in the Film Festival NU in Malmö, Sweden.

Bendixen

peter lav PHOTO GALLERY, Copenhagen, proudly presents the exhibition
 
Adam Jeppesen
Saimaa
14 August – 20 September
 

 
The opening show takes place on 14 August from 17 to 20. 
 
With his exhibition, Saimaa, Adam Jeppesen presents new photographs as well as the video installation “One – Video for 3 Screens”. Jeppesen’s book Wake (Steidl Publishing) is also shown at the exhibition for the first time.

PL Gallery

ASMUND HAVSTEEN-MIKKELSEN: LIFE IN THE BOX 
Helene Nyborg

I`II Just Have to Work With This
Mikael Andersen

Pure Evil

Berit Dröse, Anders Reventlov Larsen, Misja Thirslund Krenchel, Sophia Maria Seitz-Rasmussen, Mikael Madsen

Charlotte Fogh

Gene Hathorn and Marco Evaristti, 2008. Draft.
Evaristti´s visit to Gene Hathorn and his involvement in helping Hathorn to a fair trial, is the basis for this 1 to 1 exhibition – the meeting with Hathorn and the work that has evolved from this.

At the same time the exhibition on a larger scale comments on the institution of the death penalty, the systematized killing and elimination of those considered a society menace.

FIVE2TWELVE is a humanistic comment, drawing attention to the individuals that are put away and forgotten until their execution day. Death by then, after years of waiting under dehumanizing circumstances, in its own absurd way, can seem like the most humane thing to do.

The exhibition complements a fashionable fashion show held August 9th in Skuespilhuset at 8.00 PM.

A collection of clothes designed by Evaristti for the death row prisoners to wear on their execution day, will be presented. – If we kill them, then let´s do it in style, is the absurd comment Evaristti makes to the absurdity of the institutionalized killing.

NB ! Tickets for the fashion show should be requested at malou@evaristti.com

Any profit from the exhibition at Martin Asbæk Projects will go to Hathorn´s appeal and a new and fair trial, and supplementary income to the relatives of victims and offenders.

Special opening and live music by Kenneth Thordal
Saturday August 9th at 9.30 PM at Martin Asbæk Projects

Martin Asbæk

Muca

Naoto Kawahara
“Ouroboros”

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our fifth solo exhibition “Ouroboros” with Naoto Kawahara. Around five new paintings will be shown in this exhibition.

In 2005 Taka Ishii Gallery hosted Kawahara’s “NU” exhibition. Kawahara then participated in the group exhibition “Attention to Detail” (The FLAG Art Foundation, New York) curated by Chuck Close in 2008. Kawahara will also participate in the group exhibition “Diana und Aktaion: Der Verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit” (Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf) this October. He has been active internationally and his works have attracted increasing attention in recent years.

“This time, I worked as though painting an unorthodox Vanitas while thinking about the ominous atmosphere in daily life and the compelling instinct that enables us to constantly forget and paralyze it. Although my expression is realistic, rather than depicting the subject itself, I hope to express it like an image emerging in the mind.”
Naoto Kawahara

In this solo show entitled “Ouroboros” (referring to a serpent that formed a circle by swallowing its own tail, and a symbol of Ancient Greece), Kawahara quotes the works of Munch, an artist whom he feels “paradoxically depicts images of death, whilst also expressing life through themes such as sexuality and puberty.” In this exhibition he reexamines these paintings, which are infused with both energy and despair.

Kawahara has produced distinctive realist paintings that precisely reproduce photographs of people and landscapes drawn from his surroundings or scenes from films. In recent years, he has been creating paintings that reinterpret scenes extracted from classic masterpieces by artists such as Dürer, Balthus and Rembrandt. Through such “re-envisioned paintings”, Kawahara pursues the theme of “creating a sense of déjà vu through the repetitive use of old masters’ themes, while reflecting on archetypes of images valid today,” and presents this theme in his exhibition.

Taka Ishii Gallery