Month: March 2009

Art Comments

TRI TUE RAC / TRASH MIND

A performance by Le Nguyen Manh, Le Van Son & Christian Falsnaes.

TRI TUE RAC / TRASH MIND is a performance made as a collaboration between the
Vietnamese artists Le Nguyen Manh, La Van Son and Danish artist Christian Falsnaes.
The theme of the performance is the concepts, values and trash that limit the mind.

Supported by CDEF and Danish Arts Council.

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Herald Street

Gallery Christoffer Egelund is proud to present the group exhibition The Lure and the Seducer. The exhibition was curated in cooperation with the Danish artist René Holm (DK), and thanks to an international line-up of progressive young artists it focuses on figurative paintings, here and now. Hence, visitors can experience exciting works by such artists as: Gordon Cheung (UK), Andy Denzler (CH), Julian Lee (UK), David Hancock (UK), Richard Meaghan (UK) and René Holm.
The six artists all work on the border between utopian and dystopian landscape sceneries where the human presence is either manifested in an obvious form or through its absence. Hence, the works seem to take a distorted perception of reality as their starting point, where the spontaneously beautiful is in constant danger of breaking up, and where insecurity and discomfort are constantly lurking behind the facade. A duplicity that is easily put into our everyday perspective where financial crisis, shootings and the fear of terror are constantly smouldering beneath our bright smiles. The artists are apocalyptic at times, sometimes led by the narrative and sometimes not; but they all use the luring force of beauty to seduce and capture the spectator, whereupon the content of the work is revealed in its perfection.

Gordon Cheung graduated from the Royal College of Art (1999-2001). He has exhibited at Volta NY, amongst others, where he gave a solo presentation, and Art Basel 38. He is represented at Hirshhorn Museum, Whitworth Art Museum, UBS Collection etc. Andy Denzler graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design (2006). He has had solo exhibitions at Kashya Hildebrand (New York) and Gana Art Center (Seoul). Julian Lee, BA in Fine Arts, Newcastle University (1996-2000), has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Schuster (Frankfurt), amongst others, and participated in SCOPE Basel. David Hancock, BA of Fine Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University (1993-96), has participated in the exhibition “The New London School”, amongst others, curated by Zavier Ellis & Simon Rumley at Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles), and “Young Masters”, curated by Flora Fairburn at Art Fortnight (London). Richard Meaghan, MA Liverpool School of Art, has participated in the Liverpool Biennal, Novas Contemporary Urban Centre (2008), amongst others, and is nominated for Liverpool Art Prize (2009). René Holm graduated from Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts (2001-06) and has exhibited at Vejle Museum of Fine Arts and the Trapholt Museum in Kolding.

Gallery Christoffer Egelund cordially invites you to a private view of the group exibition The Lure and the Seducer, on Friday 13 March from 4pm to 7pm. The exhibition will subsequently be shown during the period 14 March – 18 April. Opening hours: Monday–Friday from 11am to 6pm, Saturdays from 11am to 3pm. For further information about the exhibition and press photos, please contact Rasmus Lindquist on: rasmus@egelund.dk.

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Julie Nord

Taka Ishii Gallery

WHILE THE GLACIERS MOVE AND THE TIDES CHANGE, MIRACLES WILL SURELY BE WORKED.

Andrew Schoultz returns to Denmark with his most ambitious exhibition project to date, revolving
around mighty structures, shattered dreams, holy hypocrites and heartfelt hope. The title of the show While the Glaciers Move and the Tides Change, Miracles Will Surely be Worked is as paradoxical as the themes explored. The events surrounding the election of the new American president intertwines with global politics, worldwide wars, the catastrophic climate changes and the complex world in general. As Schoultz says: “I am filled with hope upon this dawning Obama Presidency, but I also remain skeptical at the same time. It would be silly to believe that anyone, person or thing could reverse or fix the global damage that has been done, as a result of the Bush administration over the past 8 years. In fact it would be a Miracle.”
In While the Glaciers Move and the Tides Change, Miracles Will Surely be Worked Schoultz renders a magnificent mythological map of battles between hope and fear, history and future, enlightenment and ignorance. Recounting tragedies, myths and tales of the past, he reminds the present of the dark side that inevitably always accompanies the sunny side of the street. And he urges people to concentrate on the realities of the world instead of being lured by the golden calf’s siren song.

A penchant for signs and symbols still prevails in Schoultz’s art as he incorporates medieval maps,Mideastern miniature painting, biblical symbolism and re-interpreted folk art with national monuments,statues and tombs. His restless and chaotic energy prevails, but is now contrasted with a quiet, serene and calm tone leaving the viewer suspended in a dichotomy between Dionysus and Apollo. While the Glaciers Move and the Tides Change, Miracles Will Surely be Worked is a narrative installation with numerous individual works, some temporal, some tangible. In this way the viewer becomes as much a participant as an observer and the ephemeral element underlines the importance of the moment. Mixed media paintings on wood panels, works on paper, wall paintings and sculptural installations all tell stories as individual pieces and at the same time they work cohesively together to form a collective and whole experience for the viewer. The show embodies the micro and macro structures of the world. Schoultz pays respect to the renaissance tradition of mythology and narrative, while reflecting on the power of the individual and the collective mass in the civil world.

Andrew Schoultz has exhibited numerous places in the US e.g. at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New
York, Roberts and Tilton in LA and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston. His work was recently
acquired for the permanent collection of SFMOMA – the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Andrew Schoultz will also be participating in the 2009 Havana Biennial in Cuba, and an upcoming
exhibition in the Hyde Park Center for Arts in Chicago.
Furthermore he is famous for his public projects, not least in the poverty stricken Mission District in San Francisco and his projects in Indonesia. Recently Gingko Press published a book on Andrew Schoultz’s artistic career entitled Ulysses – the artwork of Andrew Schoultz.

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S.A.S #2 :Smittekilde Arrogant Student Mike Diana (US)

Smittekilde´s freshly opened modern rat exhibition space S.A.S is now ready to launch its second exhibition. This time with the brilliant American artist Mike Diana!
Mike Diana’s (born 1969) infamous cartoons were under the spotlight in 1994. He was thrown in jail for four days without bail on obscenity charges, for publishing, advertising and selling his zine BOILED ANGEL.

Mike Diana was the first person ever in the western world to be convicted of drawing comics, and since then he has been proclaimed an underground cartoon martyr.
15 years has passed since this absurd sensation and it can hardly be used to hype Mike Diana in this press release. His art on the other hand is still just as clever, and it is an honour for S.A.S to show some of his new work.

Mike Diana – thank god! – has preserved his unique, grotesque drawing style. His world is hopeless, trashed and full of crooked characters who challenge our understanding of what is wrong and right in a gallows humourous way. Mike Diana’s art portrays a completely degenerated sexuality mixed with an ultraviolent clash with authorities, directly from the dirty drawers of adolescence.

At the opening a limited silkscreen print by Mike Diana made for the occasion will be available.

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