BEOGRAD SUITEN
BEOGRAD SUITEN
Duration
02.06. – 02.07.2011
Opening
02.06.2011 at 5-8 PM
CUBE
Morten Søndergaard
Sahara under my feet
an ethnographic chamber play; texts, objects, photos and prints
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All images in the exhibition are done in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, between February 8th and March 1st 2011. The exhibition premise has been that all works should be made within the 21 days I was away. Of all the works done during the stay, I have taken 168 and divided them into nine frames, which now forms the Belgrade suite. Overall, a faster and more risky approach to the work than I am used to.
Why Belgrade then?
We traveled hastily through in 2006, heading for the Romania countryside. From the train we saw the Televizorke blocks in New Belgrade in shimmering haze. We saw the immense building masses and characteristic square windows. But it is probably not a reason – or what?
Knew no one there. Neither did I go because of Marina Abramovic’s work, the strong performance tradition or the Yugoslavian visual poetry, the so called Signalism. It was not even a reason. Nor was the NATO bombardment in 1999, not at all, or the fact that the otherwise closed National Museum in Belgrade owns a Gauguin painting from 1902, which is closely related to one in the Ordrupgaard Collection. No, or?
The impulse to make the journey must be find somewhere else. Although it still remains among the irrational motivations …
Christian Vind, Copenhagen, May 2011
Christian Vind (1969) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. He received the National Arts Foundation 3 year working grant in 2010 and is represented in Kobberstiksamlingen, Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery) and the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg Previous solo exhibitions are among others: Tegn og Underlige Gerninger – En Silkeborgfortolkning Silkeborg Kunstmuseum and Gl. Holtegaard (2008). Tryktanken Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2006). Ekstrakt Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2009). Group exhibitions counts for example: The Map is Not the Territory Esbjerg Kunstmuseum (2008/09). Inge. Curated by Subterramania, Geological Museum, the Natural History Museum, Copenhagen (2011) and the forthcoming Enter II. Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense (2011).
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CUBE
Morten Søndergaard
Sahara under my feet
an ethnographic chamber play; texts, objects, photos and prints
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Duration
02.06. – 02.07.2011
Opening
02.06.2011 at 5-8 PM
About the exhibition
I stayed two weeks in the Sahara, April 2011, and traveled through the white, gray and the black desert. Along the way, I did some walking with copper printing plates taped to my shoes, and has since tried to decipher the tracks in the sand. The exhibition presents some of the stuff I found in the sand, and the (foot)prints, photos that came out of walk. The landscape makes tracks and traces. The prints are done by Schäfers Graphic Workshop in Copenhagen.
Morten Søndergaard (born 1964) is one of the foremost of the younger generation of Danish poets to emerge onto the scene in the early Nineties. Søndergaard’s first collection of poetry, Sahara i mine hænder (Sahara In My Hands) was published in 1992. This debut collection has been followed by a succession of works which have won him both critical acclaim and a number of literary awards. Language is Morten Søndergaard’s medium and his métier, one which he practises not only as a poet, but also as a translator, sound artist and literary editor. And while his craft is solidly rooted in the classic poetic tradition he is constantly intent on exploring the possibilities of language and new ways in which these can be presented. Over the years, alongside his written publications, this has resulted in musical and dramatic works and in recordings, exhibitions and installations centring on language and sound. Morten Søndergard’s most recent publication is Processen og det halve kongerige (The Process and Half the Kingdom) (2010).
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