Larsson works with motifs and materials that are inspired by design and decoration, for example patterns borrowed from wallpaper and furniture that were typical during her childhood. Danielsen's paintings and drawings are characterised by equal doses of spontaneity and sensuality, and they are defined by an anarchistic sense of humour.
Opening Friday February 20th from 5 - 7 pm
Stalke Gallery hereby has the pleasure of showing an exhibition with works
by Eva Larsson and, in the Project Room, Svend Danielsen.
Eva Larsson (b. 1953) gathers her works under the exhibition title
Wallflowers, the English expression for the Swedish equivalent 'panelhönor'
('panel hens'). Larsson works with motifs and materials that are inspired by
design and decoration, for example patterns borrowed from wallpaper and
furniture that were typical during her childhood. She transfers the 'wall
flowers' of this period onto boxes and metal sheets that hang on the wall
and yet reach out into the room. These works are at a crossroads between
graphic print and sculpture, between art object and design product. Her
works stay close to the wall panels, but strive to remove themselves from
them; they are sensitive in their choice of motifs but tough in their
materiality.
Larsson plays with this opposition between depth and surface, between shape
and facade. She is interested in the sculptural aspect of the box's square
shape, but she is just as interested in its surface, which she covers or
changes with a two-dimensional pattern.
She uses the visual strength in the repetition of the pattern and rhythm.
The patterns may seem old-fashioned and banal, but they are far from
randomly chosen. Patterns are often connected with the feminine, be they
floral wallpaper or cloth. Larsson's use of pattern is a reflection over the
personal and feminine, but at the same time her work with shape and surface
is a formalist game of dimensions.
Svend Danielsen in the Project Room
Svend Danielsen's (b. 1955) paintings and drawings are characterised by
equal doses of spontaneity and sensuality, and they are defined by an
anarchistic sense of humour. During the work process he strives to be as
attentive as possible and create a contact with the work. In opposition to
many contemporary abstract expressive painters, he is not interested is
smearing thick layers of paint on the canvas. He assembles his works from
several levels, registers, various inputs and sensations, which are joined
together on his teeming canvases. He attempts to surprise himself as well as
the viewer  also in regards to the hanging of the works, which are staged
like installations.
Opening hours: Wed.  Fri. 1  5:30 pm, Sat. 11 am  2 pm
Stalke Galleri
Vesterbrogade 184
1800 Copenhagen F
Denmark