Odense Kunsthal
Group show in a large warehouse in the harbour of Odense, Denmark. First year students from the Art Academy in Odense invited established artists to exhibit their works together with them, in a constructive revolt against the fact that first year students do not have their own show at the end of the school year. The project was named 'Odense Kunsthal' and adopted strategies known from established exhibition spaces.
Installation view
Steel Wire Champagne Cork Holder Chair Threaded on a Steel Cable
13:20:02.20 22.03.2010
This piece was performed on site during the hanging, as the miniature café chair had to be made from the cork wire holder from a bottle of champagne, and then threaded on the wire, suspended between the large iron beams supporting the roof of the vast warehouse. The dating of the artwork is the exact time of the champagne cork popping. 0...1...2...3!
Melted Aluminium Engine Raised by Tin Can Cylinders
1969/2007/2010
This artwork has previously been shown in the exhibition "Mustang Twilight", but as the other works from that show lived on elsewhere or lost their enigma over time, this piece kept puzzling me. I've been looking at half of the artwork for all my life, since the melted moped engine was picked up by my father at the site of a burned down farm in 1969, and since then it has hung on the wall in my childhood shed. I always thought that it had a purpose, as everything else in there, but when I found out that it was something else, an abstract, frozen machine, I dislocated the aluminium blob to another place and tried to restart it with a set of new cylinders. This is the second time a restart has been attempted, which shows in the multiple dating of the artwork.
Installation view
Steel Wire Champagne Cork Holder Chair Threaded on a Steel Cable
13:20:02.20 22.03.2010
This piece was performed on site during the hanging, as the miniature café chair had to be made from the cork wire holder from a bottle of champagne, and then threaded on the wire, suspended between the large iron beams supporting the roof of the vast warehouse. The dating of the artwork is the exact time of the champagne cork popping. 0...1...2...3!
Melted Aluminium Engine Raised by Tin Can Cylinders
1969/2007/2010
This artwork has previously been shown in the exhibition "Mustang Twilight", but as the other works from that show lived on elsewhere or lost their enigma over time, this piece kept puzzling me. I've been looking at half of the artwork for all my life, since the melted moped engine was picked up by my father at the site of a burned down farm in 1969, and since then it has hung on the wall in my childhood shed. I always thought that it had a purpose, as everything else in there, but when I found out that it was something else, an abstract, frozen machine, I dislocated the aluminium blob to another place and tried to restart it with a set of new cylinders. This is the second time a restart has been attempted, which shows in the multiple dating of the artwork.