Jone Kvie
dal 2/3/2007 al 27/4/2007
Segnalato da
2/3/2007
Jone Kvie
Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
Under the heading deep space phenomena from outer space occupy the terrestrial sphere in the shape of three free-standing sculptures. Together they thematize the relationship between man and universe and touch on unfathomable eternity.
Deep space
We are delighted to invite you to Jone Kvie's second solo exhibition at our gallery.
Under the heading deep space phenomena from outer space occupy the terrestrial sphere
in the shape of three free-standing sculptures. Together they thematize the relationship
between man and universe and touch on unfathomable eternity.
The classical, romantic notion of humanity's victorious battle against the great forces of
nature is non-existent in Jone Kvie's sculptures. Instead the relationship between man and
universe has been replaced by impotence and stagnation. The sculpture Carrier, an
astronaut with head slightly bowed and hunched posture, expresses this impotence in
sharp contrast to the optimism and faith in the future that astronauts usually connote.
With his unshakable faith in progress and technology, and with his willingness to
sacrifice his life for these things, he is the ultimate image of man's need to understand his
own existence. He has conquered gravity and discovered space. And yet nothing has
improved, and his weightlessness is weighed down by the bronze in which he is
paradoxically cast.
In the sculpture Nebula we see something as infinitely large as a nebula in such a
concentrated form that it can be displayed on a kitchen table. The kitchen table serves as
the pivotal point for man's attempt to try to comprehend and systematize the world;
taking as its starting point the family, the newspaper, different hobbies, Nebula puts the
everyday existence that takes place around a kitchen table into merciless and vertiginous
perspective.
Jone Kvie serves this flat sense of apocalypse wrapped up in an appealing esthetic of
metallic varnish, bronze and organic shapes. Both in the use of material and in their
themes the works play on the clash between fear and comfort, lightness and weight, as
well as transitoriness and eternity.
Jone Kvie (born 1971) lives in Malmø and is a graduate of Kunstakademiet in Oslo,
1997. In recent years his works have been exhibited at (among others) Spielhaus
Morrison Gallery, Berlin; Galleri Opdahl, Norway; Elastic, Sweden; Arnstedt og
Kullgren, Sweden and I-20 Gallery, New York.
For further information please contact Maja McLaughlin at maja@nilsstaerk.dk
Opening: Friday 2 March, 5 - 7 PM
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art
Njalsgade 19c 2300 Copenhagen S DK-20382872 Denmark
Open: thu-fri 12-17, sat 12-15 and by appointment