Mute Appeal by Troels Carlsen.
V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS
Mute Appeal
A solo exhibition by Troels Carlsen
OPENING: FRIDAY JUNE 07. 2013. TIME: 17.00 - 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: JUNE 08 – JUNE 29. 2013.
Displacement and vertigo are reoccurring themes in Mute Appeal. The works are both familiar and strange. Reality becomes slippery and you find yourself adrift between two planes, like the subjects in Carlsen’s new works. 10 antique lithographs of stern looking gentlemen have all been modified seamlessly, de-constructed, the men now have wooden structures morphing with their heads. Two large vintage anatomy charts sprout into a man running through murky waters and a pregnant woman in a chair. Both characters are faceless, speechless but engage us in an otherworldly manner.
A series of round pieces work as portholes to a different reality. A world close to ours, or our world shaken like a snow globe and left to settle. Displaced briefly and a new reality emerges.
Juxtapositions of violence and serenity, the mundane and the magical, pop and academia, humor and tragedy, past and future fill this group of works.
The new works feel refreshingly free of direct intention and narration. They appeal to contemplation and engagement. Troels Carlsen’s visual language is very diverse. Many of his works are created on, and in interaction with, vintage anatomical charts, maps and antique book pages. Carlsen’s style is untimely figurative, sublimely precise and intimately surreal. Carlsen’s subject matter and approach shares paths with the work of the artist and filmmaker David Lynch and the writer Daniel Z. Danilevski.
Troels Carlsen (Born 1973, Denmark) has recently been shortlisted for the Carnegie Art Award 2014. In 2013 he has taken part in exhibitions at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA, The Hole, New York, USA, Invisible Exports, New York, USA, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco and Davidson Contemporary, New York, USA. His work has been praised and collected around the world. An article documenting the making of the exhibition will be published in Juxtapoz magazine in July. Mute Appeal is Troels Carlsen’s fifth solo exhibition with V1 Gallery.
We look forward to seeing you.
V1 Gallery
Please do not hesitate to contact the gallery for further information, press photos or artist interview:
+45 3331 0321 / mail@v1gallery.com / www.v1gallery.com / V1 Gallery / Flæsketorvet 69 / 1711 Copenhagen V / DK Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 12-18. Saturday: 12-16. Or by appointment.
THANK YOU: Tuborg for Tuborg
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V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS
Murder One
A solo exhibition by Rose Eken in The Depot
OPENING: FRIDAY JUNE 07. 2013. TIME 17.00 - 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: JUNE 08. – JUNE 29. 2013.
It’s a great pleasure to present Rose Ekens (DK 1976) first solo exhibition at V1 Gallery in the Depot.
The world of music is the focus of Rose Eken’s artistic practice. Eken has staged V1’s depot as a backstage- or rehearsal room of a rock band. A total installation in ceramics, tinsel and embroderies where the music itself is not the focal point, but the remains are, once the band have left the place – empty bottles, cigarette butts, beer crates, microphones, cables, duct tape. The exhibition is built around 'Murder One' – the rock band Motörhead’s two meter high Marshall amplifier, named by the lead singer of the band back in 1976. Eken has created a 1:1 copy in clay and glaze for the exhibition.
The works appear concrete and recognizable often created in the exact dimensions as those objects they imitate. They place themselves between a collective memory and private memory. And it’s rather this memory, than the concrete object itself that is the exhibition’s focal point. The staging of the works evoke an associative memory like the Madeleine cake did for Marcel Proust. Not just as thought, but as something corporal and sensuous.
The dedicated fan will easily be able to decode all the references to bands like Motörhead and Metallica in Ekens exhibition. But the works are for that matter no less relevant for the uninitiated. Rose Eken tries to capture the more common, in the form of fantasies or notions of an artistic (musical) expression that goes beyond the individual back patch, album, cigarette package or half empty beer can.
Rose Eken works in various media in her installation, where for example the empty beer can reappears as a motif in different materials. Models and sculptures demonstrate a combination of meticulous craftsmanship and amateurish do it yourself style. Eken’s rough, cartoony ceramics and tinsel paintings (also known as reverse glass painting) and her fine, meticulously executed embroideries and quilts, are created with the same intensity, dedication and endurance that characterize the making of music.
Rose Eken (Born 1976, Denmark) is educated from Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and the Royal College of Art in London. She has participated in residency programs worldwide and has exhibited internationally. Recent solo shows include among others: Love is the Drug, Munch Gallery, NY, USA, Everything Louder than Everything Else, MOHS Exhibit, Copenhagen, Denmark, Hit The Lights!, Unspeakable Projects, San Francisco, USA, Tomorrow is a Long Time, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
We look forward to seeing you.
V1 Gallery
Please do not hesitate to contact the gallery for further information, press photos or artists interview: +45 3331 0321 / mail@v1gallery.com / www.v1gallery.com / V1 Gallery / Flæsketorvet 69 / 1711 Copenhagen V / DK
Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 12-18. Saturday: 12- 16. Or by appointment.
THANK YOU: Tuborg for Tuborg