 Mud is Mute, 2010. Gouache and ink on paper. 140x125cm. photo: Dorte Krogh |
| P R E S S R E L E A S E |
Lise Nørholm surface dweller New works. August 13th – September 25th 2010 surface dweller (directly translated “earth dweller”) alludes to Nørholms own orientation to the surface through her drawings. Figuratively defining existence. The painted drawings can be viewed on two levels. The works may be understood visually, as a graphic surface, and as more or less readable texts in different fonts. Within each format, there is an improvised set of rules for construction, a kind of dogma in which color and words spread out as an ornament, a pattern or texture. Repetition and the length of the sentence work to form the picture, and the words as a starting point generate pure composition. A process which takes one word at a time, one element at a time. Words creates pictures and the works may be seen as illustrations of a ’mind- map’, or as the changing pop-ups of the brain with more or less remembered information and association. The process has a logistical character and the sentences are gathered from things, read, heard or seen. They may be statements from the media, or the art scene, quotations from books and from art reviews. From everyday life and a given definition, the material is sampled into another, compressed form which becomes an anagram of new meanings. All are linked to existential considerations of art and the circumstances of working with art. Wibeke Vadstrup Bie&Vadstrup gallery Sølvgade 26, 1307 Copenhagen K, Denmark +4533933312 www.bie-vadstrup.com The exhibition has received fiscal support from: The Arts Council (Denmark) |
