Peter Callesen
dal 10/10/2001 al 12/11/2001
Segnalato da
10/10/2001
Peter Callesen
Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen
The Life of the Dying Swan. In this exhibition we are presented with the universe of one of Peter CallesenÃs performance characters, The Dying Swan, here presented in drawings, mono prints, videos and performance. The Dying Swan was created 1999 in London for a performance, inspired by the famous solo ballet with the same title, by Michail Fokuie, about the last dance of a dying swan.
Gallery Tommy Lund is delighted to present The Life of the Dying Swan,
an exhibition by Peter Callesen.
In this exhibition we are presented with the universe of one of Peter
CallesenÃs performance characters, The Dying Swan, here presented in
drawings, mono prints, videos and performance. The Dying Swan was
created 1999 in London for a performance, inspired by the famous solo
ballet with the same title, by Michail Fokuie, about the last dance of a
dying swan.
Since then Peter Callesen has created a series of performances with The
Dying Swan, through which he almost has developed his own mythology. He
is a romantic character, who always is striving and longing for
something else, for another world. There are as well obvious
similarities between him and The Ugly Duckling. But The Dying Swan will
never become a real swan - instead a new image is created in the
confrontation between dream and reality, pointing towards more
psychological and existential questions. Common for all the performances
and especially for The Dying Swan is Dying are subjects as identity,
reflection and ideals. Through out the performance different layers of
identity are revealed and created, which not only relates to the
performance character but just as much to the artist inside the costume.
Videos from four of these performances will be screened in the video
cinema.
In a series of absurd drawings and mono prints The Dying Swan has taken
on his own life independent on the performance character. The style of
the drawings and prints are in many ways similar to drawings in
children's book, but here dealing with questions among others as death,
loneliness, self creation and sexuality. The old question of the chicken
and the egg is inhabited as well, but here the philosophical and
impossible question points towards a more psychological condition of
being trapped in a small self-contained circular world.
A common theme in Peter CallesenÃs work is his reinterpretation of
classical fairytales as well as a more general work with memory in
connection to childhood. This lost land of childhood operates in the
space between dream and reality, between possibility and impossibility.
And it is in the meeting or confrontation of these two conditions, in a
kind of utopian embodiment, that Peter CallesenÃs art becomes alive,
often in a tragicomic and moving appearance.
For further information please contact the gallery.
See also www.petercallesen.com
Opening Oktober 11, 6 - 8 pm - Live performance at 6 pm The Dying Swan is Dying
Oktober 12 - November 12 2001
Galleri Tommy Lund Njalsgade 21 Build. 15 DK. 2300 Copenhagen S ph. +45 32577957 f.+45 32578957