The Archaeology of Memory
dal 26/1/2012 al 5/5/2012
Segnalato da
Martin Erik Andersen
Ib Braase
Emil Westman Hertz
Daniel Knorr
Marie Sondergaard Lolk
Gitte Schafer
Sissel Tolaas
Birgitte Kirkhoff Eriksen
26/1/2012
The Archaeology of Memory
Soro Kunstmuseum, Soro
Materiality #1 (things). The exhibition explores the qualities inherent in things, in the object-ive, in materials. It seeks to show how such qualities are catalysts of and co-actors in the creation of moods and our experience of time, memories, myths, art and cultural history, personal and collective history. Like archaeologists The artists work with cultural and historical modes of expression, analyse them, translate them and transform them with a particular respect for materiality.
The artists are: Martin Erik Andersen (DK), Ib Braase (DK), Emil Westman Hertz (DK), Daniel Knorr (RO), Marie Søndergaard Lolk (DK), Gitte Schäfer (DE) and Sissel Tolaas (NO)
curated by Birgitte Kirkhoff Eriksen
The Archaeology of Memory is the first of three projected exhibitions about materiality. The other materiality exhibitions will be in 2013 (soil) and 2014 (immateriality). This first exhibition takes its point of departure in materiality understood as things and the thingness of things. The tactile, sensuous qualities of things, and how things relate to our memory and our history. Things are not dead matter but play an active role in our lives, in learning and remembering. Things shape culture and vice versa. Things govern our movements, actions, experiences, and memories. And vice versa. Things create meaning.
The science of things is archaeology. The artists featured at the exhibition all share an approximately archaeological practice. Like archaeologists they work with cultural and historical modes of expression, analyse them, translate them and transform them with a particular respect for materiality. The materialities at the exhibition are mahogany, cigarette butts, cloth, iron, plants, bronze, corn, porcelain, smell, paper, fox teeth, hair, whale bones, seashells, wax, seaweed, bamboo, sound, disco spots, soil, feathers and much more.
The works analyse the magical qualities of things and materiality per se; the museums’ representations of other cultures, translations of cultural traditions and their object-ive productions; the show presents the collective memory in the shape of the smell of First World War battlefields, and stone-like chunks, former STASI-files, shredded, pressed together, and thrown in the sewer system of Leipzig.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with contributions from Bjørnar Olsen, Bruno Schulz, Francis Ponge/Teddy Josephsen, Peter H. Olesen and the artists.
The exhibition is supported by The Danish Art Council and Overretssagfører L. Zeuthens Mindelegat.
The collection
We celebrate the opening of Sorø's new art museum with a comprehensive presentation of the finest works in the collection in all exhibition spaces. You will find a wealth of paintings by the pre-eminent artists from Danish art history: from Abildgaard, Thorvaldsen, and Eckersberg to Anna Ancher. Explore the movements within modern art from early modernism (Lundstrøm) to the stringent Concrete art of the 1950s (Gadegaard, Geertsen), the radical minimalism, Pop art and Land art of the 1960s (Kirkeby, Mertz, Gernes) up to the fierce “Wild” painting of the 1980s and finish with contemporary art from the 1990s to the present day (Eliasson).
Image: Martin Erik Andersen, Civilization and Its Discontents, 2010
Press contact:
Annelise Birkholm Tlf.: (+45) 57 832229 bke@sorokunstmuseum.dk
Opening Friday January 27 5-7 p.m.
Press meating January 27 2-3 p.m.
Sorø Kunstmuseum
Storgade 9 DK-4180 Sorø
Opening hours:
Tue-Sun 11:00–17:00
Mondays closed
Admission fees:
Adults: DKK 50
Children/Young adults under 18: Free
Groups: DKK 40 each (min 10 people)