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Tue Greenfort: 400 million years
Horizons, such as seascapes, make men feel fragmented. The scale of the sea, sky and sun shrinks our own presence on earth to a mere second in time. And so we measure: Time in relation to earth (its rock strata) is 鈥済eological time鈥�. A tiny fraction of a split geological nano second ago, we named the present 鈥渁nthropocene鈥�: the period of time when men began modifying the earth, sea and sky, and anthropogenic residue has come to stratify the world. More precisely: a world which created the horseshoe crab about 400 million years ago. And here we are, right in the middle of Tue Greenfort鈥檚 6th solo exhibition at K脰NIG GALLERY, Greenfort鈥檚 first show at the St Agnes chapel. Under the evocative title 400 Million Years, Greenfort presents three new groups of works that evolve around processes of the natural world, discourses of ecology and notions of the environment, while the horseshoe crab figures as a leitmotif to the exhibition鈥檚 perspective on human and non-human agency.
Tue Greenfort鈥檚 exhibition 400 Million Years is a snapshot of specimen at a point in time. It pursues a sampling sited between faux classification and amateur collecting. It redistributes visibility between the invading and the annihilated. Yet visibility alone does not make art. Imagination sets in. And here we are, in the middle of alliances into uncharted realms.
Tue Greenfort鈥檚 interdisciplinary practice deals with issues such as the public and private realm, nature and culture. Interweaving these subjects with the language of art he formulates a multi-facetted critique of today's dominant economical and scienti铿乧 production. Intrigued by the dynamics in the natural world, Greenfort鈥檚 work often evolves around ecology and its history, including the environment, social relations, and human subjectivity.
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Horizons, such as seascapes, make men feel fragmented. The scale of the sea, sky and sun shrinks our own presence on earth to a mere second in time. And so we measure: Time in relation to earth (its rock strata) is 鈥済eological time鈥�. A tiny fraction of a split geological nano second ago, we named the present 鈥渁nthropocene鈥�: the period of time when men began modifying the earth, sea and sky, and anthropogenic residue has come to stratify the world. More precisely: a world which created the horseshoe crab about 400 million years ago. And here we are, right in the middle of Tue Greenfort鈥檚 6th solo exhibition at K脰NIG GALLERY, Greenfort鈥檚 first show at the St Agnes chapel. Under the evocative title 400 Million Years, Greenfort presents three new groups of works that evolve around processes of the natural world, discourses of ecology and notions of the environment, while the horseshoe crab figures as a leitmotif to the exhibition鈥檚 perspective on human and non-human agency.
Tue Greenfort鈥檚 exhibition 400 Million Years is a snapshot of specimen at a point in time. It pursues a sampling sited between faux classification and amateur collecting. It redistributes visibility between the invading and the annihilated. Yet visibility alone does not make art. Imagination sets in. And here we are, in the middle of alliances into uncharted realms.
Tue Greenfort鈥檚 interdisciplinary practice deals with issues such as the public and private realm, nature and culture. Interweaving these subjects with the language of art he formulates a multi-facetted critique of today's dominant economical and scienti铿乧 production. Intrigued by the dynamics in the natural world, Greenfort鈥檚 work often evolves around ecology and its history, including the environment, social relations, and human subjectivity.
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