V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS A NEW DIRECTION � TO THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY A SOLO EXHIBITION BY JESPER DALGAARD & ALBUM � A GROUP EXHIBITION
V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS
A NEW DIRECTION TO THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
A SOLO EXHIBITION BY JESPER DALGAARD
RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 4. TIME: 17 - 22
EXHIBITION PERIOD: JUNE 5. JULY 3. 2010
As the title implies Danish artist Jesper Dalgaard's solo exhibition at V1 Gallery echoes hope. Dalgaard gazes toward a land of opportunity where the articulation of hope could perhaps also foster the possibility of hope, hereby replacing the notion of three's a crowd with a harmonious trinity of man, nature and machine.
And already you feel dystopia stir in the undercurrents of the exhibition. A New Direction To The Land of Opportunity confirms that a heartfelt need for hope often doesn't arise until reality is no longer desirable. Jesper Dalgaard's new direction toward something, thus also automatically implies a movement away from something. And opportunities transform into the possibility of something else, rather than the possibility of status quo.
In this sense Jesper Dalgaard's exhibition also turn into a universal narrative about people tripping into their own graves in their quest for greatness. About civilizations, whose triumphant manifestations that were supposed to ensure their future - instead ended up as enigmatic monoliths and monumental memorials testifying a failed past. About hope, that turned into hopelessness.
But first and foremost, Dalgaard's arrow points forward. Towards heroic harmony, rather than reckless ruins. He transforms the gallery into a landscape, where technology and living organisms amalgamate into life-affirming constellations made possible by future fictional scientists and progressive people writing themselves into Dalgaard's optimistic and necessary science fiction tale.
The exhibition becomes an artistic rite providing glimpses of civilization's next new stages. Nested in corn circles, tomb stones an the Easter Islands Dalgaard's story of man's creative and destructive forces literally grows into the sky and, eventually, possibly also away from the Earth.
Jesper Dalgaard (b. 1974) is one of Denmark's most exceptional young artists. He is known for his quirky universes and timeless sculptures, often accompanied by long, narrative titles, which are stories in themselves or at least the beginning of a story. This Solo exhibition is Dalgaard's first at V1 Gallery.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU
V1 GALLERY
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V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS
ALBUM A GROUP EXHIBITION BY
Wes Lang, Jonathan Meese, Andreas Golder, John Copeland, Shephard Fairey, Anika Lori, Todd James, Barry McGee, Andrew Schoultz, Kasper Sonne, Billy Grant, Laura Grant, Joe Grillo, Neil Farber, Michael Dumontier, Ron English, HuskMitNavn, Misaki Kawai, Jakob Boeskov, Geoff Mcfetridge, Ashley Macomber, Ryan Schneider, Shane Bradford, Devin Flynn, Devendra Banhart, Clayton Brothers, Thomas Øvlisen, Joe Bradley, Eddie Martinez, Katherine Bernhardt, Edward Fella, Ivan Andersen, Mark Mulroney, James Jarvis, Cody Hudson, Claus Carstensen, Hillary Pecis, Andre, Zven Balslev, Carl Krull, Russell Nachman, Justin B Williams, Able Brown, Michael Rytz.
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday JUNE 4. TIME: 17 - 22.
EXHIBTION PERIOD: JUNE 5. JULY 3. 2010.
The album cover is an awe-inspiring canvas. It transcends and challenges formal notions of art and the barriers often built between image and sound. Suspended between art and function it deconstructs the notion of what a frame is or can be.
Covers can create ideas and screw (up) expectations. They attract, repulse, reach out and slap you in the face. They rest on thrones and crawl in the gutter. Sometimes the images stand at odds with the music they contain other times cardboard and vinyl melt into equilibrium. They transform a collection of sounds into a gallery of visual experiments, timeless classics and stand out works of art.
And last but not least album covers are the first things that greet you when you hold a new record in your hand and the last thing you see when you slip the vinyl back into darkness. It covers up meaning and opens up to other dimensions. The album cover has even survived its own physical death and re-emerged in the digital sphere, freed from any other function than being part of music.
For all these reasons and more V1 Gallery salutes the artistic album cover in all its glory. The gallery has invited a long list of artists with a special connection to music and has asked them to create an album cover. Minimalism, fuck fingers, rock 'n' roll, grand emotions, fantasies, clowns, satan, fruits, guitars, karate heroes in black, white and colours blend on these newly created covers with playful stories of the past projected into the future.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU
V1 GALLERY
Please do not hesitate to contact the gallery for further information:
+45 3331 0321 / mail@v1gallery.com / V1 Gallery / Flæsketorvet 69 / 1711 Copenhagen V / Denmark / www.v1gallery.com
Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 12-18. Saturday: 12-16 or by appointment.
THANK YOU: Tuborg and Pernod for drinks, Nanna Thylstrup and Jesper Elg for text.
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THE DEPOT AT V1 GALLERY PRESENTS
ARS AUTHENTICA A SOLO EXHIBITION by BEN ROSS
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday June 4. 2010. TIME: 17 - 22.
EXHIBITION PERIOD: June 5. - June 26. 2010.
In over 100 drawings and prints of various formats, young German artist Ben Ross raises the question with a provocative undertone: what can currently be described as AUTHENTIC?
He postulates the thesis that past and present replace one another, and the artist allows both extremes to collide by comparing his generation to other generations. Dictatorship versus democracy, politicians versus party kids.
How does today's youth distinguish itself from youth 60 years ago? How does ideology differ from non-ideology? How do I behave in a public life where everything is already public? Are we forced to question the concept of AUTHENTICITY as a whole?
Thoughts and criticism flow constantly and unfiltered into his drawings and take the shape of very personal verbal snippets. Their content fluctuates between aggressive laments and intimate insights or inner monologues where private and personal conflicts are exposed.
Ben Ross' aesthetics follow the zeitgeist. He knows what makes his generation tick and how he can reach them. He is though not a one-dimensional critic and his oeuvre demonstrates the multitude of different levels he works on. On the one hand, he finds his motifs on current photo blogs and in magazines, which are the media that define new cultural movements. On the other hand, he himself has founded several blogs (www.sfak.com, www.viennastreetstyle.com) and appears as an active member of these movements and not solely as a passive observer. Ross is openly and voluntarily a product of his time he succumbs to consumerism and is its greatest critic at the same time.
Ben Ross, born 1981 in the former West German capital Bonn, moved to Linz, Austria in 2001.
In 2007 he graduated with a diploma from Linz Academy of fine arts. Ben Ross now lives and works in Berlin.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU
JON D. SANDERS, CURATOR & V1 GALLERY
Please do not hesitate to contact the gallery for further information:
+45 3331 0321 / mail@v1gallery.com / V1 Gallery / Flæsketorvet 69 / 1711 Copenhagen V / Denmark / www.v1gallery.com
Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday: 12-18. Saturday: 12-16 or by appointment.