Helen Frik
dal 7/12/2011 al 20/1/2012
Segnalato da
7/12/2011
Helen Frik
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
The exhibition brings 20 years of Frik's ceramic practice together for the first time. The 80 or so works will be presented in an apartment interior constructed expressly for their display.
This exhibition brings 20 years of Helen Frik's ceramic practice
together for the first time. The 80 or so works will be presented in
an apartment interior constructed expressly for their display.
Helen Frik responds to clay as an artist rather than a ceramicist.
Clay is another medium in her armoury, a string to her bow. Her
memories of observed details in museums, stately homes, kitchens and
books mix with genres of things — a toast rack or a Roman cooking pot
— as she makes what she refers to as associative translations. She
compares the virgin block of clay to the blank sheet of paper, and
clay modelling to drawing.
The objects she makes develop through the joys of investigation. Frik
takes an all-around approach, unusual in the ceramic world. She has no
aim to perfect a niche technique, and her approach is catholic,
magpie. She has a splendid disregard for the preconceptions,
orthodoxies and history of the medium. It is, for her, another outlet
for the things in her head and her hands. The results are joyous:
useful, useless.
The apartment interior constructed for the display of, The Frik
Collection, Ceramic Museum, has been gathered and curated by Tina
Seidenfaden Busck of The Apartment, Copenhagen. www.apartment.dk
Helen Frik (UK, 1960) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
She has shown widely around the world and has had solo shows at
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Stedelijk Museum. Frik has works in the
collections of Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague (NL), Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam (NL), City of Amsterdam (NL).
Opening: Friday December 9. 17.00 – 20.00
David Risley Gallery
Bredgade 65A - Copenhagen
Hours: Wednesday - Saturday: 2pm - 6pm
Free admission