REALITY

11.09.2005 - 21.10.2005
Galleri Kirke Sonnerup has the pleasure of inviting you to
the opening of the exhibition

REALITY

For a long time, it has been the gallery’s wish to arrange this exhibition project with photographic works by 19 artists selected from different generations. All of the chosen artists are currently established on the international art scene, and they all work with photography in one form or another. The exhibition will be an exploration of the concepts of “reality” and “real life”, and will challenge the perception of photography as an objective representation of reality.

As a media, photography is a window to the world, a window that the artist opens for us. Photography is subject to the artists’ personal angles when they see the world through the eye of the camera. At the same time, it is connected to reality and cannot escape these ties. A photograph is situated somewhere between the artist and the object, and it may be said that a photograph captures reality while at the same time showing how difficult it is to capture it. The artists in this exhibition do not work with photography as a documentation of reality, but rather as a representation of it, and they reveal photography to be of a very subjective nature.  Since the beginning of the 90’s, photography has been one of the most important media on the international art scene, an the Gallery is therefore particularly proud to be one of the first in Denmark to have focussed on this media.

Sam Jedig is the curator of the exhibition and has selected works from his private collection. Furthermore, works have been borrowed from Danish collectors, and new works have been borrowed from the artists themselves. Kristleifur Björnsson from Iceland is presented for the first time in Denmark, and from Denmark and  Austria, respectively, Christian Falsnaes and Bella Angora are also presented for the first time. The two latter artists will show a performance at the Gallery Kirke Sonnerup this spring at the occasion of Jes Brinch’s upcoming solo show.

An important aspect of the purpose of Gallery Kirke Sonnerup is to present art of a high standard outside the city limits of Copenhagen in four yearly exhibitions. The Gallery has 300 m2 of exhibition space, and has recently concluded an extensive presentation of the Danish artist Albert Mertz, curated by his fellow artist and countryman Peter Holst Henckel.

The exhibition Reality will present works by the following artists:

William Anastasi, Kristleifur Björnsson, Dove Bradshaw, Christoph Draeger, Olafur Eliasson,Christian Falsnaes& Bella Angora
Jeppe Hein, Gudmundur Ingolfsson,Per Bak Jensen, Joachim Koester,Esko Männikkö, Kristian Hornsleth, Lone Mertz,Morten Nilsson, Nikolaj Recke, Beat Streuli, Annika Ström, Peter Holst Henckel and Frans Jacobi



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