Leonard Forslund
dal 25/1/2012 al 4/8/2012
Segnalato da
25/1/2012
Leonard Forslund
Brandts Mediemuseet, Fotokunst, Kunsthallen, Odense
The exhibition, entitled "Forest of Glass", will present works dating from 1999 up to the present, including several recent works made specifically. The Swedish/Danish artist creates 'constructed' works in which different surfaces and three-dimensional objects are added. He discusses human frailty in a world of glass.
Kunsthallen Brandts will be showing a large-scale, solo exhibition of works by the Swedish/Danish visual artist Leonard Forslund. The exhibition, entitled Forest of Glass, will present works dating from 1999 up to the present, including several recent works made specifically for the exhibition.
Leonard Forslund works in painting, but moves far beyond the canvas. He incorporates diverse elements such as tin and wood, resulting in “constructed” paintings in which different surfaces and three-dimensional objects are added. This was the method employed in his Wood Nation series. Here Forslund is a sort of pioneer, creating a small society with all the traditional institutions: school, city hall, factory, ministries and, in the work Holiness, perhaps also a church. Forslund’s work relates to illusionistic art but also contains a good deal of philosophical and critical commentary on our Scandinavian, social-utopian society.
Included in the exhibition at Kunsthallen Brandts is a recent series, Human Hurricane, in which photographs of dramatic, man-made events are whirled upward into a tornado-like structure. In his Stream Palisade series, the disasters are natural, and man is reduced to an insignificant element imbedded in a biological system. Forslund discusses man’s role and human frailty in a world of glass.
Leonard Forslund (born 1959) is educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Since his breakthrough in the mid 1980s he has exhibited extensively at home and abroad. His work is represented in significant public collections, and he has received several grants and honours, including the Eckersberg Medal in 2009, awarded to individuals who have contributed to the arts in outstanding way
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Kunsthal Brænderigaarden. A richly-illustrated exhibition catalogue is available.
Press information
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The opening of the exhibition will take place on 26 January at 5 p.m.
Mikkel Bogh, head of the Schools of Visual Arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, will open the exhibition.
Kunsthallen Brandts
Brandts Torv 1 - 5000 Odense
Opening hours
Thursday 12pm - 9pm
Tuesday through Sunday 10am-5pm
Monday closed
Admissions
Individual ticket, adults: DKK 50
Groups (12 or more), pensioners and students): DKK 40
Children (0 – 18): Admission free