Jonas Hvid Sondergaard
dal 5/11/2008 al 5/12/2008
Segnalato da
5/11/2008
Jonas Hvid Sondergaard
Bendixen Contemporary Art, Valby
Humorously minimalistic on the one hand and high-strung apocalyptic on the other: the artist's paintings borrow from the treasury chamber of abstraction to throw open the gate to compelling new visions. Sondergaard is known for his precise confrontations between the vocabulary of abstraction and the shapes of our everyday surroundings.
Humorously minimalistic on the one hand and high-strung apocalyptic on the
other: Jonas Hvid Søndergaard’s paintings borrow from the treasury chamber
of abstraction to throw open the gate to compelling new visions. Hvid’s
paintings are like a look into our childhood’s kaleidoscope. Yet what are
twisted around in Hvid’s kaleidoscope are not coloured pieces of glass. It
is the surrounding world that is turned into a new recognizability.
Jonas Hvid Søndergaard is known for his precise confrontations between the
vocabulary of abstraction and the shapes of our everyday surroundings.
Ladders, balconies and walls have meticulously been transformed into
abstract structures on Hvid’s canvases. In addition, Hvid is known for his
orchestration of abstract shapes to form apocalyptic scenarios in which
whirlwinds pull us into the chaotic universe of seeming nightmares.
In this – his second solo show at bendixen contemporary art – Hvid expands
the range of his painterly expression. The precise abstract interpretations
of our surroundings take on a larger degree of complexity with motifs such
as an orange scaffolding. The paintings featuring more chaotic scenarios are
to the contrary enhanced by free flowing lava streams of changing colours
and expressive markings, only just held in check by singular stabile
structures. In several of his new works, abstraction completely consumes the
canvas leaving no trace of a recognizable world, as if we are looking into
the childhood kaleidoscope with its glass pieces still twirling around,
having yet to locate their position.
In addition to new paintings, the exhibition features a number of works on
paper that demonstrates the same expansion of Jonas Hvid Søndergaard’s
painterly expression towards a freer formal flow.
Jonas Hvid Søndergaard (b. 1977) graduated from The Royal Danish Academy in
2005. In August 2008 he co-curated the exhibition ”Teaching an Old Dog New
Tricks”: an international painting exhibition focusing on the formal aspects
of contemporary painting. In May 2009 Randers Kunstmuseum presents his solo
show ”Transit”.
Jonas Hvid Søndergaard was recently awarded Niels Wessel Bagges Award.
Parallel to this exhibition, he is also showing at Sophienholm in the group
exhibition ”Naturligvis” (October 25th – December 14th, 2008) which has
toured the Nordic countries since the summer of 2007.
Opening reception:
Thursday November 6th., from 5 – 8 p.m.
Bendixen Contemporary Art
Carl Jacobsen Vej 20 - Valby
Gallery opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 12 - 5 pm, Saturday 11- 2 pm.
Free admission