Helvedet opl酶ser sig
Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to present helvedet opl酶ser sig, a group show of paintings by Theodora Allen, Jankel Alter, Magnus Andersen, Duda Bebek, Kye Christensen-Knowles, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Ursula Reuter Christiansen and Julien Nguyen.
The artists have been invited by Alexander Tovborg, and represent a group of painters with whom he feels a kinship, and considers his contemporaries. Alexander Tovborg鈥檚 practice explores the allegories and archetypes that run through myths and religion, history and science, oral and written narratives, taking on the ideologies that come from them and placing them within the paradigm of social and political realities. Symbolism and deep-rooted references become central, as their visual language provides both Tovborg and us, the viewer, a means of navigating through the varying storylines and interpretations.
From this, we begin to find the thread that runs through helvedet opl酶ser sig. It is not a question of a shared aesthetic or a communal subject matter, but something that runs deeper. It is a feeling, a physical presence, an urgency, an infallible sense of necessity, a message that needs to be both told and heard.
Each painting is thus a world within itself, opening up to reveal a rich story. The appearance of different elements鈥攁 vine, horns, an arrow, a smile, the positioning of a body, the gesture of a hand鈥攇uide us, providing context and embedding the work within a history or histories. Together, the exhibition puts forward a call to question and reconsider our mores, to assess our position within the contemporary world, and to give us a moment to pause and think of who we are and what we have become.
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Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to present helvedet opl酶ser sig, a group show of paintings by Theodora Allen, Jankel Alter, Magnus Andersen, Duda Bebek, Kye Christensen-Knowles, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Ursula Reuter Christiansen and Julien Nguyen.
The artists have been invited by Alexander Tovborg, and represent a group of painters with whom he feels a kinship, and considers his contemporaries. Alexander Tovborg鈥檚 practice explores the allegories and archetypes that run through myths and religion, history and science, oral and written narratives, taking on the ideologies that come from them and placing them within the paradigm of social and political realities. Symbolism and deep-rooted references become central, as their visual language provides both Tovborg and us, the viewer, a means of navigating through the varying storylines and interpretations.
From this, we begin to find the thread that runs through helvedet opl酶ser sig. It is not a question of a shared aesthetic or a communal subject matter, but something that runs deeper. It is a feeling, a physical presence, an urgency, an infallible sense of necessity, a message that needs to be both told and heard.
Each painting is thus a world within itself, opening up to reveal a rich story. The appearance of different elements鈥攁 vine, horns, an arrow, a smile, the positioning of a body, the gesture of a hand鈥攇uide us, providing context and embedding the work within a history or histories. Together, the exhibition puts forward a call to question and reconsider our mores, to assess our position within the contemporary world, and to give us a moment to pause and think of who we are and what we have become.
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