HJERNEN I KARRET (BRAIN IN A VAT)
Hjernen i Karret (Brain in a Vat)
Text by Magnus Thorø Clausen (PDF)
Press information in Danish (PDF)
Backroom
Titika Røtkjær
The Danish Arts Council has supported the catalogue and exhibition
Duration
02.11.-15.12.2007
Opening
02.11.2007, 5-8pm
Galleri Tom Christoffersen presents Henrik Menné’s solo exhibition BRAIN IN A VAT – contemporary sculpture concentrating on process, machine and on the act of making sculpture in an expanded field.
Fascinating, insisting and irritating are appropriate terms when talking about the three new machines by Henrik Menné. Continuously, they produce drawings, tin objects or elaborate stone.
The machine produced objects function as works in themselves but all though they are exhibited as such they are difficult to part from the actual fabrication as long as the works Drawing Machine, Stone and Stone and 5T turns the gallery space into an artist’s workshop.
Being in the situation while the works are in the making characterizes the ephemeral relation between work and viewer, which earlier sculptures by Henrik Menné also insist on. The fact that the artist – by inserting the machine – is distanced at least one step from the realisation of the work is also typical of Menné’s production. A last important issue is the fine balance between the controllable and chance, between the mechanical repetition and the unpredictable marginal variation, which theoretically makes the process infinite and prevents the objects from becoming identical.
The exhibition catalogue contains texts by Robin Clark and Magnus Thorø Clausen. The catalogue is about the three new machines by Henrik Menné and presents selected works from 2000-2007.
By the invitation of Aura Kunstförening (The Art Association Aura) BRAIN IN A VAT will be shown at Krognoshuset (Lund/Sweden) in 2008.
The exhibition and catalogue are supported by the Danish Arts Council.
Henrik Menné (1973) graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Cph.) in 2002. Of upcoming and previous exhibitions the following can be mentioned Brain in a Vat|, Aura Art Association, Lund/ Sweden (2008), Sculpture in the Garden of Fairytales, tri-annual event in the public domain of Odense city (2008), Floor Show, Kunsthallen Brandts (2007) and the Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall (2006). Since 2004 Henrik Menné has been a member of Decembristerne an artist’ collaboration. He is also a member of Kubik, a collaboration of artists concentrating on contemporary sculpture.
backroom – Titika Røtkjær
