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"The Mobile Forum"
Solo Exhibition at the Exhibition
Space Skovhus Kunst & Natur,
Værløse (DK)
(august- october 2019)
Art Works in the exhibition:
Ground Floor:
"Mobile"(2018-19): 12 hand cut collages and cut out motives in black foam board/ dimensions: 50 x 70 cm
"The Judges"(2019): (rework of digital collage 2008) painting, cut out prints and acrylic on canvas./ dimensions: 134 x 114 cm
"The Enclosed Firmament" (2008) : digital collage/ print on dibond board, laminated /dimensions: 70 x 100 cm
The Annexe Room:
"Starting Point"(2015-19) :projection of series of photo collages onto freestanding sculptural screen. dur: 4:00 min
First Floor- main room
The Mobile Forum (2019): 9 digital photo collages in sizes 50 x 70 cm/ 70 x 100 cm and 80 x 100 cm. Materials: print on dibond/laminated.
7 steel sculptures /dimensions:various/ welded and bended steel plate, iron-rods, iron string and additional materials- plastics, ventiiator, prints, paint.
Circle of Things (2007) : from a series of 5 digital collages: Title: " Circle of Things"/ dimensions: 50 x 160 cm/ print on foam board/ laminated
Moving in Mass Movements (2008): From a series of 10 collages:Title: "Moving in Mass Movements" /dimensions: 70 x 130 cm/ Materials: print on dibond/laminated.
First Floor- back room
The Mobile Forum: (2019): 2 steel sculptures /dimensions:various/ welded and bended steel plate, iron-rods, iron string
2 paper collages on blind frame/ dimensions:134 x 174 cm / paper on blind frame, plastic fabric, cut outs
First Floor- in between room
Crystal ball / Mirror Globe (2013-19) : sculpture with projection of animation and collages./ dimensions: 81 x 37 x 91 cm/ materials: video projector, model space; mdf, plastic bowl, speakers. duration collage and animation: 04:00 min
Crystal Ball (2015) : Hand made collage/ dimensions: 80 x 300 cm/ materials: 2 mdf panels, cut outs, colored paper
About the exhibition:
Solo exhbition at exhibition house Skovhuset Kunst & Kultur, spanning two floors and an annexe room.
This exhibition takes a starting point in the notion of the public "conversation". It is a broad understanding that reaches out to different arenas for public speech through times. The ancient Greek theater, Japanese theater traditions Bunraku and Kabuki, onwards to modern fora, like digital platforms, technology and screens.
Three words that continue to come up in public conversations are "growth", "mobile" and "communication". As themes they find their way into the varying versions of the mobile forum.
The "conversations" grow and turn personal, humorous, darker, and into fiction and narratives on how an individual connects with collective stories. Graphical elements from the collages become the onset to sculptural objects.
In the art works there are people who seek to find out their relationship with the surrounding world. There's the South Pole exploration team and the map making scientists who create a world where dimensions seem to be still more deviating from the norm, based on the challenges in determining the exact position of the South Pole. Mass tourism, archeological excavations, science fiction and journalists who listen to silence rather than words.
There is also an internal dialogue taking place between art works from different periods.
Collage work from the last 10 years is combined with new work from 2018-19. And older sculptural work from the past 20 years is reworked in collage, or older collage reworked in the form of new painting and new sculpture.
Most of the photographic material is recorded while in residence in Tokyo, Kyoto, Athens and Rome in the past couple of years.
Interview curator Annette Lindroos / Kirsten Otzen Keck at Kunsten.nu: interview-kunsten.nu.pdf
Danish exhibition info: mobile-forum-kirsten-otzen-keck.pdf
The exhibition is supported by L F Foghts Fond and the Danish Art Workshops
