The Mentor Show @ LARM GAlleri

From the press release:
Ten young Danish contemporary artists and their mentors.When Odysseus went forth to battle the Trojan War, he left his son, Telemachus, in Mentor’s care. And where do you leave your son, when one is forced to go to war and might never return? A trusted person. A person you feel great confidence and has as much respect for. This is precisely the starting point for “The Mentor Show”.
The idea for the exhibition is based on the generation of young artists and their respect for previous generations of talented and inspiring artists. Ten contemporary artists are invited to participate in the exhibition, while they have been asked to invite their mentor to exhibitwith them. The younger generation of artists have been selected by some criteria such as age and variation in training, various art colleges in both Danish and foreign institutions are included. Just as there are also sought a certain variation in the medias. The younger generation is around the age range between 30-40 years.
But what is at stake between mentor and protégé. Inspiration and fascination are two of many general instruments. But this do not just go one way, from mentor to protégé. When the mentor has been pouring of his or her wisdom and experience and protegé becomes the favorite, which unfolds its wings. Potentially mentor will be reminded of his or her own mortality in his mirror in youthful vitality. Therefore contains the relationship between mentor and protégé a latent disaster. A love-hate relationship. The need for separation is pronounced, and although the consequences are disastrous, as it is autonomous, allowing Icarus free when he defies his father’s prohibitions and flies too close to the sun.

The participants and their mentors: Sofie Bird Møller – Günther Förg; Andreas Schulenburg – Finn Thybo; Søren Hüttel - Anette Abrahamsson; June Pilaiphorn - Peter Bonde; Mie Mørkeberg – Elmer; Jonas Hvid Søndergaard – Nils-Erik Gjerdevik; Ida Kvetny – Anette Abrahamsson; Troels Carlsen – Asger Carlsen; Trine Boesen – Daniel Richter; Jon Stahn – Jens Jørgen Thorsen.

16. januar - 27. februar 2010

Esplanaden 8D, 1263 København K

web site:www.larmgalleri.dk

Onsdag-fredag 12-17, lørdag 12-15