I N V I T A T I O N
 
Sebastian Quedenbaum and Fabian Weinecke

The Exchange and the Death

Stalke Out of Space and Flink has the great pleasure of announcing the exhibition The Exchange and the Death
November 18th. from 5 to 8, Nørre Alle 1, 2200 Copenhagen , Denmark

The idea for this exhibition was inspired by the great discomfort surrounding the most predominant ideology within the financial world, more specifically referred to as liberalism and marketing fundamentalism:  with “the invisible hand,” as Adam Smith metaphorically describes it, the market regulates itself, resulting in a win-win situation.  The fragility of this ideology is demonstrated quite obviously by the rising number of financial crisis within the last several years.

The artists can ask the question of whether or not the art’s instruments can play a critical role in an economical situation which is so complex, that trite, leftist propaganda art would otherwise be meaningless.

Central to Sebastian Quedenbaum’s works is the representation of the consequences of an economic system as experienced by the individual.  As Richard Sennett describes it in his book “The Flexible Person,” solutions are ascertained by hierarchies, along with a rising sense of insecurity within the work and living environments, and the resulting shift of responsibility to the individual in which the person feels coerced to constant personal evolution inspired and fueled by existential anxiety.

Sebastian Quedenbaum’s artistic investigation is not limited to one decided style or medium.  He uses instead varied approaches and medias:  reliefs and glaze paintings inspire, among other things, associations to socialistic realism, Nazi art’s Kitsch and propaganda art.  The more critical opinions are not always evident, but are instead often camouflaged as a tribute to capitalism.  Hence, there occurs an irritating, poetic space, in which the viewer him or herself can decide upon a position.

Collapse is the downside of the dogma of eternal growth.  Within the individual there arise symptoms of burnout and depression, whereas global symptoms manifest in the form of bankruptcy within firms, banks, and whole states.  Thus, finite is the enemy of capitalism:  the termination of the workday, the termination of all of earth’s resources, or the termination of human life as we know it.

Death is also the theme in Fabian Weinecke's works, but not in a programmatic sense.  His images, which are often characterized as intimate miniatures, are entirely developed from the color as a medium.  His image compositions are more intuitively founded, rather than calculated.  Although his images in many cases cite the paintings’ historic heritage (i.e. Carl Spitzweg, symbolism, or Francis Bacon), he maintains his own unique imagery.  This can be seen first and foremost in the suggestive power of the characters which inhabit his landscape:  archaic feminine figures and skeletons which seem to awaken the painting, bring it to life, and make the images his own.  Fabian’s works combine humorous impulses with a great respect for the painting tradition.

We look forward to welcome you to the opening on Friday November 18th. From 5 to 8 pm


Press photo

The exhibitions ends January 6th 2012
Open by appointment:

Contact:
Flink.
Nørre Alle 1
2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
e-mail: mette@flink-art.dk
+45 40319223

And

Stalke Galleri/ Stalke Out Of Space
Englerupvej 62
4060 Kirke Saaby, Denmark
Phone: +45 29267433
www.stalke.dk
e-mail stalke@stalke.dk












ON VIEW  #1
 
First opening / Copenhagen
 
Project by STALKE OUT OF SPACE
 
Stalke Out of Space has the great pleasure of announcing the first exhibition ”On view #1" in corporation with FLINK. New project space in Copenhagen
 
The new space function as show- and project space for Stalke Out Of Space, and a new supplement to the other activities of Stalke Gallery.
Stalke Out Of Space aims at 3-4 yearly exhibitions and now great to add to the main program of the gallery.
 
On the first opening Stalke Out Of Space will show a selection of artist:
 
Thorgej Steen Hansen
Jeannette Ehlers
William Anthony
William Anastasi
Dove Bradshaw
Nikolaj Recke
Bella Angora
Søren Dahlgaard
 
….
 
me perceive place
 
Performance video by Bella Angora
 
The performance project „me perceive place“ by Bella Angora was developed for the Vienna Fair 2011 and focused on psychological and physical options and attempts in order to place yourself within the fields of different social systems. Bella Angora was taking place on the lap of the approximately 200 art fair visitors within the frame of one-to-one-performances in order to start an exchange regarding this complex of themes by using different levels of perception.
 
Always one person could enter the performance box that was placed in a booth of the art fair to perceive a 1:1 experience with the artist on several perception levels. The visual perception channel was fed by a music video. The soundtrack to the video had served the additive perception that one could hear over a headphone. At the same time Bella Angora was sitting on the lap of the viewer, singing the vocals live and directly into the second ear of each person. By doing so she was triggering the physical perception channel. The space in the box was tiny, the closeness huge.....
 
The visitors of the art fair had the opportunity to step out of the art market situation for a brief moment into a quite enraptured and unreal ambient. The here presented video shows a selection of the performances.
 
The Vienna based artist Bella Angora is collaborating with Gallery Stalke since many years and performed/exhibited at different places in Copenhagen like Overgaden, Gallery Dunk!, Copenhagen Alternative Art fair, Art Copenhagen or Gallery North.
 
In relation to „me perceive place“ Bella Angora will present the performance „Darkroom“ on the 15th of September 2011 at Kunsthallen Nikolaj. This project is working with similar mechanisms like „me perceive place“ but furthermore is treating another sub theme. With „Darkroom“ the artist wants to break expectations that we are having due to certain conditionings as well as sharpen our senses by building a special room installation.
 
The term „Darkroom“ relates to more or less escalating sexual practices – in this special „Darkroom“ the kind of touch is different: sitting on a lap (like a child) and the touch of the breath that is reaching the ear when Angora is singing....Both two very „innocent“ actions that also implicate a kind of sexual attraction as well. These totally soft, sensitive and reduced actions want to communicate the need to perceive informations on a more subtile and differentiated level that is standing in opposite to our mostly very loud and aggressive surrounding that often comes with an overdose of sensual penetration.
 
The room installation will allow the audience to watch this very intimate situation from outside by viewing through optical lenses that are embedded in the walls of the room. This will give the whole situation a strong voyeuristic touch and by entering the „Darkroom“ the viewer is changing roles from „observer“ to „observed object“ within two steps.....
 
 
We look forward to welcoming you to the opening on Friday September 9th. From 5 to 8 pm
 
Place:
 
Flink. /Stalke Out Of Space
Nørre Alle 1
2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
 
 
Mette Flink & Sam Jedig
 

The exhibitions ends on November 11^th 2011
 
Open by oppointment:
Contact:
 
Flink.
Nørre Alle 1
2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
Att: Mette Flink
e-mail: mette@flink-art.dk
+45 40319223
 
And
 
Stalke Galleri/ Stalke Out Of Space
Englerupvej 62
4060 Kirke Saaby
Denmark
Phone: +45 29267433
www.stalke.dk
e-mail stalke@stalke.dk
 
 
 
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FRITHIOFF JOHANSEN

Aknowledging, as he does, his debt to the age-old traditions of art, Frithioff Johansen still works with the classic materials used in painting, sculpture and graphic art. His own inherent curiosity has, nonetheless, taken him a long way, in terms of trying out new  forms of impressions. Science and technology have provided one of the main sources of his inspiration for his work for many years.
Johansen has won international renown for his work with lasers and holograms. His magnum opus to date is probably the laser sculpture "Chaos Temple" which has become something of a symbol for the town of Holstebro. Other major works include the tower sculpture "Sfirot" in the town hall square in Billund,  "A Kind of Entropy" at the Flakkebjerg Research Institute, "The Virtual 'A'" in Kolding and the light sculpture "VD" in Skanderborg.  All these works include moderne technological tools such as computer work, lasers, holograms, fibre optics and LED light.

This stamp is inspired by recursivity. In a Dutch university's mathematical class you may be entertained by the metaphorical concept "The Droste effect". It refers to cocoa packing with a picture of a nurse with a tray with a cocoa packing with a nurse etc. In Denmark we are tought  "The Ota Solgryn effect"  by former professor Flemming Topsoe , who used an old oatmeal packing showing a running boy carrying an oatmeal packing with a picture of a boy etc. Have a look at: http://www.frit-johan.dk/ota_movie.html

Well - here we have a stamp with a picture of a stamp with a picture of … etc.

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