New Mexico 17 Years After

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The series is named New Mexico 17 years after and consist of photographs I have taken in New Mexico, America in September 2009 and merged together with my paintings into one image. The paintings are all 80 X 80 cm - quadrates as to open the paintings aiming to show a state of mind that can be either landscapes or portraits, both or neither. The subject matter of the series is a personal autobiographical realization a story that I however hope can have relevance to someone beyond to myself.

When I was 16 years old in September 1992 I travelled to New Mexico and lived in the desert state. The journey was a high impact experience due to my youth but also since New Mexico primarily consists of nothing but desert and wide open spaces. I grew up in urban Copenhagen and all of a sudden found myself placed in the middle of nowhere surrounded by nature and not much else and it was the first time in my life where I ever experienced solitude, silence and nature.

This highly personalized series contains elements of; romanticism, nature, longing and solitude. Furthermore, the elements of meeting yourself out alone in the world and the confrontation and, at times, conflict it implies. I.e.; The conflict between nature and culture, urban and. desert, sentiment and rationality, following a longing or a sense of duty. Moreover, with this series I as a visual artist also wish to investigate; how much of personal notion is valid and relevant to a perceiver? And consequently how much is art able to transcend? And the longing to communicate, to transcend solitary notions and sentiment to a perceiver via art

Marie Irmgard, Copenhagen 2010.

NEW MEXICO 17 YEARS AFTER er kurateret af Line Elmstrøm Lund som udover sin egen kunstpraksis, arbejder med uafhængig kuratering. Udstillingen med Marie Irmgard, bliver den første af en række udstillinger i L.E.L presents.

Foto:Marie Irmgard

Marie Irmgard

31. juli - 08. august 2010

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