Paramnesia

Paramnesia
Andreas Albrectsen
23.10 – 21.11.2015

Opening: 23.10 2015, 5-8pm

Pressemeddelelse DK
CV Andreas Albrectsen
Andreas Albrectsen – Paramnesia by Gertrud Sandqvist

Office
KONTROL
Kristian Kragelund

Drawing is the preferred medium of Andreas Albrectsen. Typically pencil and charcoal on paper. Black and white. The motifs are taken from the artist’s private archive of photographic images – a physical archive, as well as a digital archive collected from searches on the Internet. The first saved and secondly revised photographic images end up in Albrectsen’s drawings as images in a third potency – we have the original photo, the depiction thereof, and, at last, the drawing. At some point in the transit, through the original, the Google-depiction to the drawing, the context is lost, and it is exactly this autonomy he finds interesting. Using the drawing as a rhetorical tool, Albrectsen narrates a new and more personal story about the image, though concurrently assuring a transparent presence of the initial one. It is a gentle play of letting the past, the history and the context having a symbolical presence in the grand white surface surrounding the drawing.

For his first large scale solo show at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Andreas Albrectsen has collected historical traces witnessing a dark chapter in a common European past. Bullet holes found in monuments and exisiting facades are transferred through a frottage technique onto chalk paper, and presented as a transparent memorial of repressed memories absorbed by the city. Meanwhile, fragments from the layers of spray paint added throughout 26 years covering the remains of the Berlin wall, is presented on the floor as a materialized oblivion and represents the time of Albrectsen’s own generation. Alongside the two above-mentioned works, three new and larger charcoal and pencil drawings are shown. One of the works Untitled (White Lie) is a motif from the Classical Mythology – the symbol between the reason and the unreason – processed by dividing the sketch and recollecting the parts out of order to be meticulously reproduced at last in the drawing. The further two large drawings Projections II-III revolves around the function of the Rorschach test: about mapping out hidden memories and thought processes by associations made from an abstract and harmless picture.

“We believe that we know what we remember and what we prefer to forget, collectively as well as individually. Andreas Albrectsen shakes these beliefs and throws us into a state of healthy and necessary uncertainty. This is yet another of the potentials of art: forcing us away from self-righteous self-assuredness, forcing us to look at the things we do not want to see.”

– Gertrud Sandqvist, Rector at Malmö Art Academy in ” Andreas Albrectsen – Paramnesia”.

Andreas Albrectsen (b. 1986) graduated from Malmö Art Academy, 2013. Recent exhibitions: These Walls, Galleri Jacob Bjørn, Århus and The Hot Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, 2015. Understrøm – Ung Nordisk Kunst, ARoS Aarhus kunstmuseum, 2014. 24 Spaces, Malmö Konsthall og Rummets Rymd – Species of Space, Skissernas museum, Lund, 2013 . In 2013 he debuted in Copenhagen with the solo show The End at Galleri Tom Christoffersen.

OFFICE:
KONTROL
Kristian Kragelund
23.10 – 21.11.2015

Opening: 23.10.2015, 5-8pm

Kristian Kragelund – list of works
Pressemeddelelse DK
CV Kristian Kragelund

The exhibited works for KONTROL are all part of a larger on-going research project, in which Kristian Kragelund, through his work with process based paintings and sculptures, seeks to examine and trace the relevance of a Western structural dominance reflected in contemporary art and culture.

The paintings are seen as a response to a current fragmentation of values, where rigid hegemonic and imperial cognitions are disintegrating, and where the individual is left to define her own authenticity and reality through the midst of endless information feeds and sensual stimulants; a state where institutional critique and recognition paradoxically are manifested as means of resistance and a necessity of (self) control and definition.

Based on this thesis, the works for KONTROL is made by treating a historically charged support – the canvas on a wooden stretcher – with a variety of homemade metal-infused paints, acid solutions and industrial components such as zinc phosphate or heat resistant enamels. The compositional structure of the surface is arranged in ways that resembles or mimic that of an abstract modernist visual language, based on a sterilized outlook on forms inspired by architecture and infrastructure – in an attempt to render a visual correlation of form and content, expression and function, action and purpose.

Kristian Kragelund (b.1987 DK) graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK – BA Fine Art i 2014 and studied at New York Film Academy, Pratt Institute, NYC and The European Film College, Ebeltoft, Danmark. Selected exhibitions: A Sequence of Nows, Display Gallery, London, UK, 2015. When Words Collide II, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, DK 2015. Arcane Studios, London, UK, 2014. The Hix Award 2014 – Cock’n’Bull Gallery, London, UK. May Occur, The Rag Factory, London, UK, 2014. Star, Food and Wine, Waxwing Exhibitions, London, UK, 2013. Art at Treberfydd – Treberfydd House, Wales, UK, 2013.