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23/9/2010

Faint to black

Henningsen Contemporary, Copenhagen

curated by Mikkel Carl and Andreas Henningsen

Artists: Mikkel Carl (DK), Ryan Gander (GB), Terry Haggerty (GB), Lasse Schmidt Hansen (DK), Uffe Holm (DK), Gerold Miller (DE) Rasmus Høj Mygind (DK), Lea Porsager (DK), Emil Salto (DK), Anja Schwörer (DE) og Kasper Sonne (DK)

The group exhibition FAINT TO BLACK is a most exciting collocation of foreign and Danish artists all presenting works that in principle - but on very different terms - are black. Black is the vanishing point of all colour, a cultural maelstrom of mythology, abstraction and pop; black magic, black holes, black on white, black as ink.

As rebellious imperative mood, legendary Paint It Black by Rolling Stones introduced a devil-may-care psychological space. Fade to Black by Metallica – through its reference to the medium of film – involved time, while simultaneously disrupting the dualism light/dark; imagine a colour actually fading towards black.

As it turns out the exhibition title is a hybrid, and a linguistic spin-off too. Through the 'black out' of fainting, FAINT TO BLACK produces a situation equally personal and formal.

It is our hope that the somewhat narrow curatorial framework – black, as it is – will be able to disclose optical, psychological, and cultural meaning still hidden. We do see a darkness so full of shades, and in the origination from nothingness Utopia may be forever rediscovered.

At the opening Uffe Holm will perform his work Black Tie Dye at approximately 6 o´clock.

Opening Friday, September 24, at 5 - 8 pm

Henningsen Contemporary
Fredericiagade 17, Copenhagen

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