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1/6/2007

Two exhibitions

Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun

Simon Dybbroe Moller / Pamela Rosenkranz

We are taking the liberty of sending you the attached press release and folder about the upcoming exhibitions. In the main exhibition we present the Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller. His photographs, sculptures, videos and installations focus on the themes of deconstruction and reconstruction and nostalgia and forgetting. At the same time, Pamela Rosenkranz is shown in the project room enter.

Additional to the exhibition programme the Kunstmuseum Thun follows an invitation to Liste 07 and will be presenting an installation of Reto Leibundgut as well as different artists who are associated with the museum.
We would like to thank you for announcing our coming programme in your media and request that you include these exhibitions in your culture calendar.

Simon Dybbroe Møller was born in Denmark in 1976 and studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. His photographs, sculptures, videos and installations focus on the themes of deconstruction and reconstruction and nostalgia and forgetting. These works hover between original and reproduction. Dybbroe Møller plays with a nostalgic longing in which artistic movements like Constructivism, Suprematism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Minimal and Concept art still have the quality of border transgressions. For Dybbroe Møller those movements qualify as a last period of utopian thinking. His narratives about demise are enriched with numerous references to the history of art, design, architecture, literature and music: from Robert Morris and Dan Flavin to Gordon Matta-Clark, from the musician Bonnie “Prince” Billy to August Strindberg and his experiments with painting and photography.

The title of the exhibition “Like Origami Gone Wrong” alludes to the Japanese art form origami in which square sheets of paper are folded into the most varied three-dimensional figures without the use of scissors or glue. Dybbroe Møller is interested in the playful and the private aspects of origami. On the other hand origami is also about perfection and geometrical forms, making all kinds of references to 20th century art possible. Ultimately, when an origami fails, what results is not a figure but an abstract construct – something sculptural. “State of mind (A permanent sculpture)”, 2006, came about during an attempt to fold an origami from memory. When the attempt failed, Dybbroe Møller turned it into a large sculpture which might well have originated in the 1960s. “Unfold your dreams”, 2004, is a series of photographs for which origami figures formed the starting point. Dybbroe Møller unfolded these and exposed the sheets of paper; what once represented a figure is now an abstract-geometrical image.

Modernism, as the last period of utopian thinking, is reflected in Dybbroe Møller's work in a nostalgic or retro-avantgardist gaze. His objects are like stage props – they are reconstructions, not artefacts. In this context, not modernism itself in the focal point, but how we think about a past epoch. In “Inside the wall, inside of you”, 2005/07, it seems as if an old wall painting is becoming visible beneath a brittle white overpainting. In actual fact, the decline has been construed by Dybbroe Møller and the painterly remains are a reconstructed past. The exhibition Simon Dybbroe Møller – "Like Origami Gone Wrong" is a collaboration between Kunstmuseum Thun and Åarhus Kunstbygning.

Kunstmuseum Thun
Hofstettenstrasse 14 - Thun

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