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Kirstine Roepstorff - Illuminating Shadows
From the press release:
Kirstine Roepstorff’s works have a way of speaking in big terms, which despite their metaphysicality are vibrantly catalogued and defined in the artist’s practice. She can explore the idea of, say, a shadow, applying this – for lack of a better word - paradigm to everything from cultural, national, or personal awareness, honesty, or even the changing seasons, by employing visual metaphors of everything from rocks, forests, sumo wrestlers, storks, newspaper headlines and nude figures. Roepstorff is an appropriation artist, and she rearranges the images we see to say something about reality. But she also rearranges normal conceptual boundaries, and the complex visual collages we see are reflections of this. She talks about her work in terms of energies, honesty, personal shadows, awareness, weight, balance, gardening, or any number of people and animals who have become modern-day archetypes in her complexly coded visual world – a juggler, Balance, The Dog Called Loss, the Eel of Unfortune, Moment Man, or The In-Between. Things that are normally incomparable, like advertisements for eyewear and images of lynch mobs, are oddly brought into interrelational comparisons that defy logic – akin to asking which is more, 2+2 or wilderness?
This new series of large-scale sculptures and collages represent a selection of works from the artist’s most recent museum exhibition at the Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, and Stadtgalerie Schwaz - both in Tyrol, Austria. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue. The special exhibition concept was prompted by the artist’s first visit to Tyrol and the Haus der Völker in Schwaz, an ethnological museum based on the private collection of Dr. Gert Chesi. By integrating numerous African artworks from the collection into her exhibition, Roepstorff brought ritual objects into dialogue with her own works, causing these objects to be viewed aesthetically, and her own works to be viewed anthropologically.
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 Kirstine Roepstorff: Illuminating Shadows (installation view), 2010. |
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 Kirstine Roepstorff: In the Belly of Absence, 2010. 320 x 162 x 50 cm. Concrete, fabrics, photocopies on paper, cardboard, pine frame. |
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 Kirstine Roepstorff: Density Wrapping, 2010. 198 x 110 x 40 cm. Concrete, fabrics, brass, thread, silverfoil, cut-out photocopies on paper, glass crystals. |
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 Kirstine Roepstorff: Standing Root, 2010. 315 x 122 x 50 cm. Wooden pedestal, fabrics, stainless steel, photocopies, newspaper, thread, root, pine frame. | |  Kirstine Roepstorff: Boy Playing the Sand Flute, 2010. 275 x 120 x 55 cm. Fabric, photocopies on paper, branches, fabric die, glass crystal, chain, ribbon. |
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 Kirstine Roepstorff: Lady With Density in Hand, 2010. 307 x 122 x 65 cm. Concrete, fabrics, silverfoil, pine frame, bamboo, chain, photocopies, thread, antlers, glass crystals, fabric dye, frame. |
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 Kirstine Roepstorff: Lady Root, 2010. 380 x 125 x 25 cm. Fabric, wood, photocopies, thread. |
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 Kirstine Roepstorff: Frozen Time, 2010. 227 x 110 x 40 cm. Concrete, stainless steel, glass crystals, fabric, silverfoil, paper, chain. |
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