NOCTURNES
THOMAS BANGSTED
NOCTURNES
Duration: 26.10. – 17.11.12
Opening: 26.10.2012 at 5-8 PM
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Kirsten Justesen
CIRCUMSTANCES / OMSTÆNDIGHEDER
Udstillingen er støttet af Statens Kunstråds Billedkunstudvalg.
NOCTURNES
In this, the second solo exhibition at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Thomas Bangsted continues to probe the delicate line between constructing a picture and capturing the world. Produced to a large scale, the works present for the first time black and white photographs paired with a single monumental photograph in color.
Collectively, these pictures continue Bangsted’s preoccupation with time, history, and the landscape by way of treating the photograph as a layered composition. Each picture is aggregated from multiple negatives captured at the same location over a period of time that can vary from the course of a day and up to several months.
In the exhibition three eerie night landscapes render darkness visible by means of combining photographic exposures made both at high noon and at night, thus creating otherwise impossible nightly visions. The assembly of a church pipe organ is depicted in the exhibition’s large color work. The photograph is amassed from numerous exposures taken during the five-month long installation period. The ship functioning as the focal point for the narrative has previously been seen in Thomas Bangsted’s work. In the last work of the exhibition an emblematic and camouflaged battleship has been resurrected by interweaving shoots of contrasting tonalities, imagining a quiet moment in history.
Differentiating stylistically, the works represent different points in Thomas Bangsted’s production. While expanding upon the repertoire of creative processes and the degree of built-in labor, this exhaustive process remains, as ever, subtly concealed within each photograph. Setting the mood, the presence is felt that under the surface something is not as it appears.
Danish born Thomas Bangsted (1976/DK) lives and works in New York. He received an MFA from Yale University, School of Art in 2007 and degrees from Goldsmiths College, London in 2005 and Glasgow School of Art in 2004. Recent solo shows include MARC STRAUS, New York (US/2012), and Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2010). Group exhibitions include; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (US/2012), The Bronx Museum of the Arts (US/2011), Gl. Holtegaard (2010), Danziger Projects (US/2010), and The Prague Biennial (2009). The Danish Arts Council has purchased works from the artist. Thomas Bangsted is represented by MARC STRAUS, New York (US) and Galleri Tom Christoffersen.
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CUBE:
Kirsten Justesen
CIRCUMSTANCES / OMSTÆNDIGHEDER
Duration: 26.10. – 17.11.12
Opening: 26.10.2012 at 5-8 PM
CIRCUMSTANCES / OMSTÆNDIGHEDER
“Langt de fleste af de mange kvindelige kunstnere, som historien kan fremvise, har befundet sig i en kunstnerisk marginaliseret position. At kvinder først og fremmest blev definerede ved deres køn, var en kendsgerning, som feministerne tog konsekvensen af i 1970’erne, da de indså, at de måtte gøre en dyd af nødvendigheden og bruge femininiteten som et aktiv, hvis de ville bryde med den dominerende maskuline repræsentation og betydningsproduktion i kunsten.
Kirsten Justesen har placeret sig centralt i feministisk kunst lige fra dens start omkring 1970 med en lang række værker, der både skarpt og kærligt og ironisk diskuterer kvinders situation og position i det private og offentlige rum. I 1973 gennemførte hun et større projekt bestående af ca. 100 s/h fotografier, som hun gav titlen Omstændigheder . Værket blev imidlertid lagt til side, og kun enkelte af seriens billeder er gennem årene blevet brugt i forskellige kunstneriske sammenhænge.”
Vibeke Vibolt Knudsen, Circumstances – 1973. An unknown work by Kirsten Justesen. Statens Museum for Kunst Journal, 2001, s. 179
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