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Til november har jeg min næste store soloudstilling på galleri V1. Så over sommeren vil jeg mest være at finde i mit atelier STUDIO AFRIKA. Her et lille sneakpeak af et værk der blev født forleden i dybet. 

THE BUTLER / Acrylic on Carton/ 40x40 cm / Anika Lori 2012

JAPANSK SYRE+DIAMANDA GALAS TORTUR FILM CHARLOTTENBORG

PRUNE IN THE SKY

13.4.2012 - 29.4.2012

Fernisering: 13.4.2011 kl. 17-22

Kaj Aune (NO) * Leah Beeferman (US) * Center for Models of Life * Fausto Falchi (IT) * Sigrún Gudbrandsdóttir (DK) * Wieteke Heldens (NL) * Ingen Frygt (IS/DK) * Mathias Kryger (DK) * Kasper Lau Hansen (DK) * Anna Lundh (SE) * Peter Møller Rasmussen og Mads Emil Hilmer (DK) * Matthew-Robin Nye (CAN) * Pind (DK) * Davide Savorani (IT) * Jens Peder Søndberg (DK) * Elizabeth McTernan (US) * og en navnløs kunstner.

 OPENING PROGRAMME

17-22 whisky and buzz

20-21 Readings and performances including:
- ‘Sisimka’ – Sigrun Gudbrandsdóttir will be reading from her sci-fi novel accompanied by Jomi Massage
- ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ – a theatrical performance by Kaj Aune
- ‘The Fire Inside – Vocal attempts at something biographical’ – performed by Mathias Kryger

During the opening Italian artist Davide Savorani will be activating a site-specific installation in one of the windows of the gallery with performer Michelangelo Miccolis (IT).

Canadian artist Matthew-Robin Nye will be showing ’Load more guys…’, a performance in which the artist runs a marathon in search of his inner void.

You have to imagine a prune, A curly wet big small thing, and it is set against the sky. First think of it in daylight. You see the prune in silhouette; the backlight makes its wrinkles invisible. Then it is night – the prune now has no outline, and it is merely a subtle transition in texture. Prune in the sky is an exhibition that draws a curled up axis between the softness of the prune and the endlessness of the sky, between a) the artist run exhibition space Toves Galleri, named after the Danish author Tove Ditlevsen, and b) the Niels Bohr institute (part of Copenhagen University), named after the physicist Niels Bohr; venerating liberation and imagination in c) science (and) fiction.

Prune in the Sky will be a physical exhibition and a program of reading, performance, screening and talks. It will be based at Toves Galleri, yet part of the program will take place at the Niels Bohr Institute, and not only that, Elizabeth McTernan’s performance means we have to get up at start walking at nine o’clock on a Sunday, the very exact moment a tree is being cut down somewhere north of Seattle, and keep walking in the direction of it for six hours until the sound waves technically hit our ears. In many of the works in the exhibiton, a notion of inner and outer time and space collapse. Other than overlapping in lifespan and each having iconic status in Danish culture, Niels Bohr and Tove Ditlevsen have no real connection. Notwithstanding, Copenhagen was always a very small pond, and the poet, thinker and designer Piet Hein was a friend of Niels Bohr’s and keen follower of the work that was taking place at the institute, and he also had a brief love affair with Tove Ditlevsen in the 1940s. The prune in the sky is a ying yang symbol of sorts, as is pairing up Tove Ditlevsen and Niels Bohr. Possibly more of a kling klang. Or a Plim plum. A little rhythm tapping through Copenhagen in time and space.

CONTINUED PRUNE PROGRAMME

SUNDAY 15th – A TREE CALLS – A performance by Elizabeth McTernan

Meeting point Toves Galleri at 8.45 am (early start, yes).
Be dressed for out doors and bring a snack.

WEDNESDAY 18th – A NIGHT AT THE NIELS BOHR INSTITUTE

Performance by Anna Lundh – The Tale of the Big Computer,
Presentation by Naniko Mitarai from Center for Models of Life
The premiere of Leah Beeferman’s new sound piece
Readings of Tove Ditlevsen by Tilde Maja Fredriksen
and bubbly Nielsbrusco drinks and snacks…

Evening starts at 18 pm at:

Niels Bohr Institutet
Blegdamsvej 17
2100 København Ø

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FASCINATION/FRIDA KAHLO

FRIDA KAHLO. PAINTER & FLOWERLOVER. I TOTALY ADORE HER PAINTINGS AND HER STYLE. I WISH SHE WAS HERE THEN I WOULD TALK TO HER. MAKE HER BREAKFAST EVERY MORNING AND LISTEN. I WOULD SERVE A SOFT BOILED EGG AND INTRODUCE HER TO TOASTED RYEBREAD. AND HUG HER REAL LONG.

Influenced by Mexican culture – both its vibrant colours and symbolism – Kahlo frequently referenced it in her work and also her dress, which was considered offbeat and unconventional for the time. During her heyday in the 1930s and 40s the majority of Mexican women preferred less traditional and more modern attire.

Having suffered lifelong health problems, which include contracting polio as a child and being involved in a traffic accident as a teen, Kahlo’s work focused on her painful physical and emotional experiences. As a result of the polio, which left one of her legs much thinner than the other, Kahlo would also try to cover them up with long, layered, flowing and traditional silhouettes – which then became her style signature.

Going against trends, Kahlo chose to keep her brows thick and unruly unlike the heavily plucked Hollywood-style of the time. A distinct trademark of the artist, Kahlo often exaggerated them in her many paintings (55 out of her 143 paintings ever made were self-portraits). Wearing her long black hair in a way deemed unfashionable, Kahlo would centre-part and braid it into a tight bun and accessorise it with headpieces and flowers usually from her native country. Often wearing flowers and using them in her paintings as a celebration of her national heritage, their symbolism of fertility and fecundity was also pertinent to Kahlo who was unable to have children herself as a result of the accident in her teenage years.

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