Russell Maltz & Torgny Wilcke, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark
Installation view of work by Russell Maltz
Russell Maltz & Torgny Wilcke, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ruth Campau: Velvet Mirror and Diamonds, Asbæk Art Consulting, Copenhagen, Denmark
As the title indicates, Velvet Mirror and Diamonds consists of small-scale crystalline formations scattered across the gallery space – as though some large diamond had been smashed to smithereens, and the shards left strewn round about. It is still, above all, Campau’s characteristic brushstrokes, however, that engage the eye: now applied to the underside of a clear acrylic sheet, now, pastose style, to the upper surface of a mirror sheet.
Crisp & Shout, Galleri Kant, Esbjerg, Denmark
Installation view, works by Lars Breuer (left) Untitled, 2007 Lacquer on canvas 24 x 24 inches Inverse Diamond, n.d. Lacquer and floor paint on canvas 24 x 16 inches June 10 – July 16, 2011 Galleri Kant presents the exhibition “Crisp & Shout” featuring the works of artists Lars Breuer, Ruth Campau, Terry Haggerty, Michael Mørk, and Jan van der Ploeg.
Minus / Plus, Galleri Kant, Esbjerg, Denmark
Kyle Jenkins, Urban Geometry #298, 2010 Acrylic on linen 60 x 50 cm April 23 – July 10, 2011 It’s with great pleasure we cordially invite you to join us at the opening of “MINUS / PLUS”, a group exhibition presenting reductive art from two generations. Bodil Manz (1943), Leif Kath (1945), Kyle Jenkins (1974) og Michael Boelt Fischer (1975) have individual artistic practices which converge together within a shared methology of deconstructing and reconstructing [...]
Kyle Jenkins: Sunken Treasure
February 5 - March 12, 2011
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce the exhibition Kyle Jenkins: Sunken Treasure. This is the Australian artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States and it will feature a new site-specific painting installation.
Kyle Jenkins and Michael Boelt Fischer: KYLE BOELT FISCHER – MICHAEL JENKINS, Galleri Kant, Esbjerg, Denmark
Peter Hedegaard: Paintings & Screenprints, Rocket Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Peter Hedegaard, Colour Sequence [blue/green/yellow], 1975 Screenprint 22 x 30 inches December 3, 2010 – February 19, 2011 Rocket/Jonathan Stephenson presents paintings and screenprints by the Danish-born Londoner Peter Hedegaard (1929-2008). This is the first solo exhibition of Hedegaard’s work for thirty-five years. Rocket’s exhibition includes a cross-section of Hedegaard’s paintings from the early 1970s. In 1974 Hedegaard was a prize winner in the John Moore’s Painting Prize and Rocket will be showing ‘Green and [...]
Malene Landgreen: Red Blue Motion Totem, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark
Installation view May 29 – September 5, 2010 Red Blue Motion Totem is the meaningful name of Malene Landgreen’s current exhibition at Esbjerg Kunstmuseum in her home country Denmark. The installation was realised on the occasion and celebration of the 100th birthday of Danish painter Richard Mortensen. With her giant wall-paintings combined with mirrored columns Malene Landgreen pays tribute to the expressive work of the jubilee and created an optical illusion which dissolves the central [...]
Trio: Herbert Krenchel, Hans Wegner & Ib Geertsen, Rocket Gallery, London, United Kingdom
March 5 – April 24, 2010 An exhibition of art and design from three legends of mid-century Danish modernism: 1950s Krenit bowls by Herbert Krenchel; the Getama Daybeds by Hans Wegner; and Danish Konkrete paintings by Ib Geertsen.
One or Two Things I Know: An Interview with Linda Francis, by Brent Hallard, Visual Discrepancies blog, September 22, 2009
Installation view at Non Objectif Sud, France, 2009 Brent: A drawing dated 1978, Untitled, chalk on paper, has a pair of identical penciled or conté grids which you use to make a series of what appear to be perfect arcs; there are finger marks or smudges; some arcs are taken out. The arcs appear to form some shape, allude to volume, but never really do. What I see is a point where you stopped. Was [...]
Ib Geertsen (1919-2009): In Memoriam
The Danish artist Ib Geertsen died on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Geertsen is survived by his wife Birthe, and their grandson and granddaughter. The funeral will take place on June 12 at Timotheus Kirken, Valby, Copenhagen where there is a stained-glass window designed by Geertsen. “Ib Geertsen is the grand old man of Danish abstraction, but was little known in the UK until he was championed by London’s Rocket Gallery in a recent group [...]