Union Gallery
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Anika Lori / AVPD /
The Destruction of Atlantis curated by Jesper Elg
October 1-
November 29, 2008
These three exhibitions in one show feature new works by Anika Lori and AVPD plus a group show of international artists curated by Jesper Elg.
In, Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner, Anika Lori works in mixed media creating art that transgresses formal barriers and achieves a mastery of expression and language that is uniquely and resolutely hers. Her work is an expression of a sincere and sanguine fascination with sexuality and an appreciation of its diversity.
Visibilities, is an installation show by AVPD (Aslak Vibæk & Peter Døssing). The central piece is Stalker, which unfolds as sequence of four connected and uniform corridors. To walk inside is to encounter an image of oneself standing behind oneself, one is forced into a position of detachment and into taking the role of being ones own stalker.
The Destruction of Atlantis reflects and comments on the legend of Atlantis through painting, photography, sound, drawings, sculpture and installation and draws parallels to our own civilization and environment. The group show curated by Jesper Elg features new works by a diverse group of young international artists including: Ulrik Crone, Michelle Blade, Wes Lang, Julian Röder, Steve Powers, Todd James, Troels Carlsen, Andrew Schoultz, Jakob Boeskov, Kasper Sonne, HuskMitNavn, Matthew Stone, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Alex Lukas, Peter Funch, Jes Brinch and Richard Colman.
Anika Lori's Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner is a series of collages employing materials which glitter, glare and wink. This frenzied portrayal is conveyed through the use of weird animals, crying clowns, vintage porn, masks, fashion images, wigs and moustaches. Her work is an expression of a sincere and sanguine fascination with sexuality and an appreciation of its diversity. It explodes before the viewer like a confetti packed firecracker that leaves the ears ringing with a strange poetry in which complementary difference is celebrated to the exclusion of all else.
During the last five years AVPD / Aslak Vibæk (*1974) and Peter Døssing (*1974) have increasingly strengthened their position as one of the most original, experimental and odd artist collaborations in Scandinavia. From the outset of their career AVPD's complex spatial works have been focusing on examinations of how time, space and subject interrelate.
In this the first presentation of AVPD in Britain three new works are presented dissecting and exploring the human perception. The main work Stalker is a new installation which unfolds as a segregated sequence of four connected corridors. Inside the installation four huge mirrors are positioned in angles creating an endless 360º reflection in each of the four mirrors. The reflections in the four mirrors conflicts with the reflections of a single mirror. Instead of observing one's mirror image the subject perceive oneself from behind as he/she is a another person, standing behind oneself.
The subject observes oneself as another subject. In other words the subject is forced into the role of being the one's own stalker. Apart from being one's own observer the mirror reflections forces the subject to observe all other present subjects in the installation and simultaneously being observed by them. The installation becomes a performative space.
Transparencies II is a series of works, each consisting of layers of 70 x 100 cm transparency film fixed in several displaced layers. Because of the displacements and overlaps of the transparency films variations of tones occur creating a vibrant spatiality on the the 2-dimensional surface. The transparence of the transparency films changes character and color depth depending on the light intensity and light angle and the perceptive position of the subject. Sphere constitutes at the same time both as a simple and complex sculptural object. By the use of approximately 1000 meter tiny wooden fillets constructed in a triadic system the work appear as a dense spherical object.
According to the subjects physical distance to the object, Sphere becomes subject matter of how the human eye perceive space and objects. On one level the works by AVPD can be characterized as accessible to a direct physical and mental experience frequently confronting the subject with an immediate sensation of confusion, bewilderment and vertigo. On another level the works is influenced by different sources as Science Fiction literature, movies and science which endow the direct physical experience with a complex and intensified content in this way place demands to the subject on both a physical and intellectual level.
Jesper Elg with Peter Funch founded the V1 Gallery in 2002. In 2004 Mikkel Grønnebæk joined the gallery. The gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark represents a select group of emerging and established artists and is committed to introducing art with something at heart to an international audience. Seeing art as a profound and competent media for social and political engagement, the gallery has a desire to challenge both the viewers, the norms and itself and aspires to create a space with no limitations other than quality and nerve. |
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Anika Lori (b.1975), Black Cloud, 2007, Mixed media collage, 100 x 70 cm.
AVPD (Aslak Vibæk b.1974, Peter Døssing b.1974), Sphere, 2008, 1000 m wooden fillets (dimension 1x2 mm), glue, approx. 55 cm. |
