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28/2/2013

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Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

1st of March we open our doors to five smaller solo exhibitions with works from five completely different artists. Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art experiments with a whole new exhibition format, where each artist is provided with a single room within the exhibition venue to present their latest projects. Thus, there is no common approach that links these exhibitions. Instead, the exhibition offers a variety of experiences through which the audience gets a chance to become acquainted with each artist, whose practices range from photography and video to architectural installations and Land Art, individually.
The five artists are: Gejl/Godwin, Nicolai Howalt, Mette Gitz Johansen, Eva Koch and Michael Mørk.

15m3
A container carrying 25 tons of rust-red Australian sand is already en route from Melbourne to Den Frie in Copenhagen – a journey spanning 48 days and 16.000 km (approx. 9940 miles), generating 10 tons of CO2 pollution. The work, entitled 15m3, originated in the correspondence of the two artists Jette Gejl and Bjorn Godwin, from Denmark and Australia respectively. Residing at the opposite ends of the globe and with different cultural backgrounds, they developed the project 15m3 with the aim of addressing the role of art in the discourse of global warming and with overt references to the Land Art movement. Gejl and Godwin seek to draw our attention towards the way in which we relate to each other as well as the world that surrounds us.

Light Break
Nicolai Howalt‘s project, Light Break, revolves around light – its symbolic significance and its healing effect. Based on theories of light therapy developed by doctor of medicine and Nobel laureate, Niels Finsen, Howalt examines the visual traces of the ultraviolet light that patients were treated with. By conducting the light through prisms made of rock crystals, Finsen and his team treated several incurable diseases in a revolutionary way. With his photographs, Howalt aims at scrutinizing the colour and expression of the UV-rays, which, in praxis, cannot be concretely experienced as the temperature of the colour is low to the extent that it is undetectable to the naked human eye.

Observing Pink
Through her exhibition Observing Pink, Mette Gitz Johansen explores concepts such as ritual and travel with a specific focus on the culturally linked symbolism of colours. The exhibition is based on observations made in Japan during the remarkable time of the year when the cherry trees blossom – an event so heavily rooted in and enclosed by tradition, fascination and symbolism, and often associated with a particular kind of ‘hysteria’ (called „Sakura“ in Japanese). Thousands of people camp under the branches of the blossoming trees in order to be part of the transformation. Crossing various media, ranging from photography to drawing, Mette Gitz Johansen seeks to decode ‘the foreign’ and the culturally implied through the concept images of the event and the colour, that are related to existence and transience, as well as skin, flesh and kitsch.

IFITRY waiting
A video work by Eva Koch, IFITRY waiting, was shot a year ago, while the artist was participating in an artist in-residence program in Morocco. The title refers to the only female saint in Islam, who also gives name to the art residency. The work revolves around „the act of waiting“ and the comportment of our bodies and selves as we wait. It was created on-the-go, aided by colleagues that were present at the time. They were asked what they might find themselves doing while waiting – and if they would be willing to be recorded in the process. Everyone agreed to that request and some even began behaving in a surprising manner while being recorded. For the audience, the 3D projection will create the illusion of people waiting all over the room, contrary to a regular projection where they would simply form a queue on a flat wall.

Blokland
With his use of the units comprising a kitchen as both subject and the fundamental element of his exhibition Blokland, and in arranging them in ways more traditional to sculpture, Michael Mørk seeks to highlight the kitchen unit as an isolated and dismantled phenomenon, removed from its original function. Mørk is interested in everyday objects, and the surfaces and grids that constitute the domestic frames we use to structure our lives. The neutral kitchen units, which we are all familiar with, become an odd, paradoxical image, which, on the one hand, stands for clean form emptied of all meaning, while at the same time when opened up, it contains all our personal belongings and stories. With his work, Mørk seeks to disturb our comfortable and habitual movements through the structures that we are surrounded by.

For further information please contact press coordinator
Kit Leunbach
E: kl@denfrie.dk
T: 33 12 28 03

Opening on March 1st from 5-8pm

Den Frie
Oslo Plads 1 - DK-2100 København Ø
Opening hours
Monday closed
Tuesday – Friday 12 – 17
Thursday 12 – 21
Saturday – Sunday 10 – 17
Closed between exhibitions.
Admission
Adults DKK 45
Children u/12 yr DKK 0
Students DKK 25
Retirees DKK 25
Members DKK 0
Groups, pr. person DKK 20
Classes, pr. person DKK 20

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