LINKS - Exhibition January 2012



LINKS
Ann Linnemann
Exhibition 3 - 28 January 2012
Ann Linnemann exhibits wood-fired and glaze-painted sculptural objects and jars - Body wood, Body Blue and Body landscape...
A retrospective selection of her ceramic pieces, that shows part of her path towards the next exhibition in the gallery: ILLUSION - people, landscapes, spaces and views inspired by 'Trompe l'oeil' and Pompeii, Italy.
LINK: Ann Linnemann

EXHIBITION CALENDAR 2012

LINK - GALLERY SHOP pieces in the gallery Subject to change

5 - 28 JANUARY LINKS Ann Linnemann DK
Ann Linnemann exhibits a retrospective selection of her ceramic pieces, 'a path' towards the next exhibition in the gallery: ILLUSION.

3 - 25 FEBRUARY ILLUSION Ann Linnemann DK
"The idea of the exhibition started with travels in Italy, where 'Trompe l'oeil' caught my eyes. The painted illusions of windows, relief and frames, where the real ones 'are missing' on the façades. I took this idea into my own life and space, and created an illusion of 'missing' views in my surroundings." See the exhibition - LINK

2 - 24 MARCH HELIOTROPES Mikael Jackson and Jens-Rune Gissel DK
Geometric ceramic forms are stage props and actors in picturesque stories. This exhibition of collaborative pieces shows the sketches by painter Jens Rune playing in a lively 'unfinished' way with Mikael Jacksons strictly geometric hand-formed ceramic shapes. See the exhibition - LINK

30 MARCH - 28 APRIL GRAVITATION Esben Klemann DK
Esben Klemanns core area of expression is clearly defined by his interest in architecture, construction and material, – a constant desire to further the development of process is the main importance in his finished pieces.
www.esbenklemann.dk - See the exhibition - LINK

3 - 26 MAY GRAPHIC TALES Lisbeth Holst-Jensen DK
A ceramic composition of graphic images in interaction with oval forms. The graphic vessels and 'image-plates' reflect Lisbeth Holst-Jensen's experience with the tactile possibilities of the ceramic material, knowledge of art history and artistic curiosity linked to a great passion for music.
www.lisbethholst-jensen.dk - See the exhibition - LINK

31 MAY - 30 JUNE FRAGILE
Bodil Manz, Jane Reumert, Malene Müllertz and Heidi Bach Hentze DK

5 - 28 JULY BEHOLD - vessels The gallery artists

2 - 31 AUGUST STATE Kristine Tillge Lund DK

6 - 29 SEPTEMBER FORM & FANTASY Ole Jensen and Louise Birch DK
www.louisebirch.com - www.olejensendesign.com

4 - 27 OCTOBER TECTONIC PLATES Bente Hansen DK
www.bentehansen.dk

1- 30 NOVEMBER CERAMICS AND PRINT - NARRATIVES Paul Scott UK & guest artists
Paul Scott is an artist best known for his research into ceramics and print. He creates individual pieces that are exacting and critical, blurring the boundaries between fine art and design. In the twenty years since the first edition of Paul Scott's handbook Ceramics and Print appeared, printed surfaces have become commonplace in contemporary practice. To co-incide with the imminent publication of a completely new edition of the book, this exhibition on narratives in ceramic print will involve leading international figures in the field.
www.cumbrianblues.dk

1 - 23 DECEMBER CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION - Table and Home The gallery artists

PERMANENT EXHIBITION / GALLERY SHOP - Akio Takamori USA - Ane-Katrine von Bulow - Ann Linnemann - Bente Skjøttgaard - Charlotte Thorup - Christina Schou Christensen - Hans Vangsø - Heidi Bach Henze - Karen Bennicke - Karen Harsbo - Kirsten Coelho AU - Kurt Weiser USA - Lis Ehrenreich - Lone Skov Madsen - Malene Müllertz - Margaret O'Rorke - Marianne Krumbach - Marianne Nielsen - Mikael Jackson - Morten Løbner - Neil Brownsword - Paul Scott UK - Prue Venables AU - Steen Ipsen/Anne Tophøj - Sten Lykke Madsen - Stephen Bowers AU - Turi Heisselberg Pedersen - Glass: Iben Kielberg ...

Still in love - exhibition November 2011



Still in love

Sten Lykke Madsen DK
Akio Takamori USA/Japan

3 November - 3 December 2011
Life appetite, narrative joy and humour in new ceramic pieces by Akio Takamori and Sten Lykke Madsen.
Akio Takamori and Sten Lykke Madsen always seem to work with love of humanity in mind.
This Summer the two friendly souls have worked together at a studio residency in Denmark, where they have been challenged by making pieces about love and eroticism.
The exhibition presents a joyful and reflecting enthusiasm for erotic love. It shows their undying appetite for life and love of clay, art and people.

Throughout time, history shows several examples of erotic art – from fertility goddesses and erotic statuettes to unlimited comments in contemporary art. Erotic art has been shown in secret museums and behind the shop counter, and at the same time appears as an ever existing and important part of the artistic expressions – both to happiness and indignation for the curious viewer.
Sten Lykke Madsen is recognized for his fabulous, humoristic figures, that in funny ways bring the viewer into a different world of hybrids between animal and human.
The theme of eroticism and love is always present in Sten Lykke's motives. He grabs with steady fantasy and humour the still new forms and lines to give out new experiences.
At this exhibition the bedroom chest of drawers shines of its own erotic adventures, while other forms play with each other and the viewers sense of imagination.
Akio Takamori is famous for his figurative works and masterly drawing on ceramic form.
At this exhibition he lustfully takes a starting point in race, gender and togetherness. He often uses the vase, the container as a basic form on which the figure drawing freely moves outside and inside the form in a sensitive brush stroke.
In those pieces, Akio tells about eroticism and love in ways that carry the mind into secret places and hidden corners, revealed around and inside the forms. He seems to talk about several aspects of erotic life and not be stopped by raised fingers and 'untimely' moralistic concerns.

Coupling - Exhibition October 2011



COUPLING
Pipaluk Lake & Jesper Palm DK
Exhibition 6 - 29 October 2011


Exhibition of glass by Pipaluk Lake and photography by Jesper Palm.

For years the two artists have – individually and without direct purpose – collected discarted glass objects of various kinds.
This glass collection has formed the common starting point for this exhibition.

In this project the artists have chosen to challenge their usual working methods.

Pipaluk Lake has 'deformed' and transformed the collected glass objects. They are cut and assembled into new combinations with other glass parts and prefabricated found objects of wood and metal.
This work method differs from her usual slumping technique, where primary glass sheets are heated in a kiln.

Jesper Palm chooses in this project an opposite order of idea development. Usually he starts working from an idea or a narrative in a dreamlike condition, which is staged in the final photograph or painting.
Here are the given glass objects used as elements in a tableau, where the light plays an important role in the final still-photograph.

LINK: Pipaluk Lake - Jesper Palm

Extrudox A/S - Exhibition September 2011


EXTRUDOX A/S
Anne Tophøj & Steen Ipsen
Exhibition 1 September - 1 October 2011
EXTRUDOX A/S squeezes the lemon!

Steen Ipsen og Anne Tophøj:
“EXTRUDOX A/S is a collaboration, where we research and challenge the ceramic technique, extruding.
We have used this summer project as a play ground and a free space away from our usual methods and projects, to discover and take in new ceramic terrain, challenge each other and try out our boundaries.

None of us have worked with extruding before; but it is a technique in which we both see a potential in relationship to our own individual work.
Extruding, as Extrudox A/S has used it, is a here-and-now technique, where the objects are finished in the same tempo as they come out of the extruder.
It is man and machine against and with each other; and it is a spontaneous, manual, and quick process, where the technique, clay and the moment of making become easily readable in the finished pieces.

Extrudox A/S has worked with an open and playful approach, where extruding is the primary turning point, and the result has become functional, objects and figures.“

Steen Ipsen and Anne Tophøj have known each other since they started at the Design school in Copenhagen (Skolen for Brugskunst) in 1984, and have both been involved in ceramic education in Denmark teaching at the Denmark Design School in Copenhagen and Kolding. They have individual ceramic careers and exhibit nationally and internationally, in recent years for example in Paris, Milan, New York, Brussels, Hamburg, Shanghai….
- www.steen-ipsen.dk - www.atop.dk

Thanks to:
Danish National Studios of Art – for use of metal studio
SuperFormLab, Denmarks Design School - for use of the extruder
assistant Theis Lorentzen, student at Denmark Design School - Bornholm

Kirsten Christensen - Exhibition August 2011


Kirsten Christensen
Exhibition 4 – 27 August 2011
See the new work by an unusual Danish artist, who likes to tell truth and grabs life from the inside...
"As an artist you have to get into a space, that you don't know what it looks like. You have to find courage to jump. You live your life in a minefield. The condition for creation is using this courage to describe something not yet seen..."

Kirsten Christensen:
"About creation crisis and the sudden conquering of it...
The paradox feeling of real freedom – made the jump back to the cage full of lust; but this time when freedom was real, it was worth all of it.
The studio changed from a burden to fulfil all conditions for creation.

Exhibition of large Italian oil-pastel drawings with ceramic object applied and framed. Small flat houses with photos of the studio, women and animals, and finally a sitting skeleton. Death at last for all of us – important is a life before death."
http://www.kirstenchristensen.dk/
Kirsten Christensen has made large-scale commission works for the Hjortespring Library (1982), the Aalborg Train Station (1988) and the Køge Badeland (1992).
In 1978 she became a member of the Danish art association 'Kammeraterne', 1986 'Den Frie Udstilling'. In 1991 she received the Danish National Arts Foundation lifelong award.

Wild & Vigorous - Exhibition July 2011



Wild & vigorous
Marianne Nielsen & Marianne Krumbach DK
Exhibition June 30 - July 30 2011

In July, the gallery shows a 'wild and vigorous' Summer exhibition of new work by the emerging Danish artists Marianne Nielsen and Marianne Krumbach.

Marianne Krumbach and Marianne Nielsen are studio mates in a constant dialogue. In spite of differences in their clay practice, they have a thematic connection – a circling around cultural objects and a 'cultivation of nature' as a starting point of their figures, forms and decoration.
LINK - Marianne Nielsen - Marianne Krumbach

Marianne Nielsen
I have modelled leaves, placed on the wall in a grid they function as a kind of 'species board' – a catalogue of pattern and form/design possibilities. This way the leaf is used more or less figurative between classic nature representation and pure form, - between plate and image. (Artist photo of sketches)
The transition from nature object to our thing-ly world interests me, when form becomes shaping and colour becomes decoration. In this project it has been interesting for me to see, how one subject can spread out and hold many different meanings.

Marianne Krumbach
I have set a scene in ceramics. A rabbit looks at a set table. A large plate. A glass of wine, Knife, fork and spoon. All in a size that immediately points above you and me. In the middle of the table is a lit candle. At the tabletop the rabbits. Observing. Waiting.
A story. A tale that is open for the viewer to enter.

They both graduated from the Danish Design School – Kolding, and for the last three years they have shared a studio in Copenhagen.

Weight - Exhibition June 2011


Weight
Elisa Helland-Hansen - Norway
- www.elisa-hh.no
Exhibition 2 - 25 June 2011

At this exhibition Elisa Helland-Hansen invites the visitors to lift up the cups – see, touch, close their eyes and sense weight and gravity.

Elisa Helland-Hansen - VEKT:
“In my kitchen live 44 different cups and beakers. They are not randomly chosen. And neither their weight, size, volume, form, surface and expression are random.

Through many years of use, I have noticed how the weight of a cup has its own value and gets importance in the sensuous experience of drinking. An oppressive day, the tea drunk from a heavy beaker may give peace in mind. Coffee in a feather light cup may comfort a fragile condition. Or I can hold a cup, that really irritates... wrong weight for the need of the moment.

This interest in the weight of the cup has resulted in a research of the limits of the cup at a given mass. What possibilities lie in a lump of clay at 222 grams? How many varied expressions can I get from the same weight?

My starting point became a series of 9 beakers with identical profile and size, but with a rise of weight from 111 grams to 999 grams.
Through the evaluation of this row of cups grew new series, where the relationship between weight volume and apportion of mass got a special attention. Further on my choice of glaze, colour and pattern became influenced by the character of the specific cup.”