Eighteen presents
Stolen Motifs, Vol. 1
A solo exhibition by Frederik Nystrup-Larsen
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 7. 2024. TIME: 16.00 - 21.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: JUNE 8 – AUGUST 10. 2024.
PLEASE NOTE THE GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED FOR SUMMER HOLIDAYS JULY 6 – JULY 30. 2024
Alternative titles:
I now own a garden
I bought a house on an island
Miss you
the word for the world
is flower
It’s flowers
Are flowers
Eco therapy (healing the mind through nature)
Flowers Now
Plant Seeds Now
Plant now
Now Plant
Fill this garden
Synthetic Garden
Diluted realities
Plastic spirituality
Plastic surgery
Therapy in flowering
Plant blindness
Skip school to queue for a salad
Try and die
Grow or die
Bloom and die
Tired of days
We died a long time ago
/ is already dead
Objects of desire
Spring has gone
Tropica
Nursery
Can you copy nature?
After nature
Comfort room scene
Flower room
Room of flowers
Book of flowers
School of plants
Pain distraction
Mixed reality
This in our heaven
Appetite
You smell good
Romantic ideas
Painting as Decorations
Floral propaganda
Cultivated flowers
Call me a seed
Sorry
emotional radiance
Inter Flora
Ephemeral Echoes MR (Mixed Realities)
I did it out of plain lust with compromised joy. My joy was tackled by my knowledge of simple beauty as a sceptic motive in painting. And the flower as a primitive motif. I did it anyways. I stole these flowers for the fun of it. I crossed your fields with kilos of sticky colour. I read about plant blindness and felt convinced that decoration is an underestimated function fit for progressive propaganda. The advertising business gets this. Kilos of dead botanicals across your living room. Today I insist that it makes sense. To replicate, in paint. To please. As a way to remind or to connect. For you to care. That and what I stole.
- Frederik Nystrup-Larsen, 2024
Frederik Nystrup-Larsen (born 1992, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a MA from The Royal College of Art, sculpture department, London. His MA Degree project, The Private Collection, was presented at Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020. For the past four years, he has made several exhibitions and collaborative projects with the Danish artist Oliver Sundqvist. Recent exhibitions include 6/Daily コンビニ— CASH ONLY, with Oliver Sundqvist, The Plug, Tokyo, Japan, 2024, Det materielle liv (The Materiel Life), Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark, 2023, Soft Boxing, with Oliver Sundqvist, Alma, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023, Pacific Time Out, a duo exhibition by Frederik Nystrup-Larsen & Amanda Lydért, V1 Gallery, 2023 Soft Boxing, with Oliver Sundqvist, Side Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2023, Love Is Not Enough BOY, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021, Under/Over East, group show, Marta, co-curated by Emmanuel Olunkwa, New York City, USA, 2021. Stolen Motifs, Vol. 1 is his third solo exhibition in Eighteen.
