[August 28th 2002]
Exhibition

Karin Lorentzen: Greb (In English: To catch, snatch, clutch, grab), 2002

Sculpt Fiction
Exhibition: 10th August - 7th September 2002

Pakhuset
Vesterbro Torv 4,
4500 Nykøbing Sjælland S
Mo-Fr 11-17, Sa 11-16, Su closed
www.kunstforeningen-pakhuset.dk

Morten Stræde, professor at Billedhuggerskolen Charlottenborg, exhibits at Pakhuset with his students. See the images kopenhagen.dk has received from the participating artists and read an edited excerpt from the introduction to the book "sculptfiction" (Kunstforeningen Pakhuset, 2002) written by Else Marie Bukdahl, head of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art:

The information technology of today has created what has been called a "simulation culture" or a "virtual reality" where man relates to models instead of to what is real. As a counterpoint to the fictional space of this non substantial world especially painters and sculptors have focused on creating another type of free space be recapturing a sense of presence, a sense of the tangible, the substantial and the corporeal as well as acquiring a different breadth of view. This recapturing has happened in accordance with contemporary conditions and through new categories of form.

The students at Billedhuggerskolen Charlottenborg have worked at creating such a free space through an expansion of the idea of what sculpture is. With their very different and independent artistic practices they have found new solutions to the many problems which a "simulation culture" raises. They have shifted many limits but also maintained a clear knowledge of the fact that sculpture, like other forms of three dimensional art, to a greater extent than painting is an art form present in space, and that the body is involved in the experience of this art form in a far more direct way; the sculpture actively pulling the viewer into its field of vision.

The expanded concept of sculpture has been described by professor Morten Stræde as follows: "Maybe it makes more sense to talk about borders rather than places when it comes to sculpture. The sculpture attempts to maintain a borderline for the transition of different conditions rather than determine a place where signification can be brought forward. One could even put it so openly that sculpture can't be said to appoint this borderline at all, but merely moves towards it in a continuing process of clarification. If this is so the inner descent of sculpture shifts from being static and closed to becoming a process; a kind of cognitive circulation, which always seeks to contemplate, and from both sides, the position of the border and the difference the border in each case composes. There is a continuous speech within the sculpture up against this border, and yet this continuous speech is held captive like a fly in resin by the material immobility of the figure. And here we maybe are faced with the greatest potential of sculpture; that it by the force of its own physicality can be it's own object, and hereby is able to speak and curb this speech at the same time." (Projekter 1991-1996, Morten Stræde, Odense - DK, 1996, pp. 61)

Translated and edited by Sophie Pucill

(top) Henrik Menné: Without Title
(left) Eleonore Nicolas: Bolchefængsel (In English: Candy Confinement)
(right) Eleonore Nicolas: Green Cress Carpet

(left) Anders Bonnesen: The Rug, Records & Covers
(right) Anders Bonnesen: Loudspeaker, Loudspeaker Photograph , Which way up or down, Which way up or down photograph


(left) Espen Brandt-Møller: Anonymous witnesses
(right) Espen Brandt-Møller: Semistructure - installation 2002


(left) Lene Desmentik: Meeting, Condition1, Condition2, Condition3
(right) Esben Klemann: Without Title


(left) Sophus Ejler Jepsen: Winch track building in the snow, Packaging Étude 1, Packaging Étude 2
(right) Sophus Ejler Jepsen: Full breakfast- 2002. Bowl, Cornflakes, Milk, Sugar, Flag


(left) Karin Lorentzen: Greb (In English: To catch, snatch, clutch, grab)
(right) Karin Lorentzen: Greb, Heptagon I, Søjlegreb (pillar clutch), Heptagon II


(left) Flemming Jarle Mikkelsen: Without Title
(right) Flemming Jarle Mikkelsen: Without Title


(left) Ole Lorin Rasmussen: detail from Business Profile
(right) Ole Lorin Rasmussen: The incredible Hulk


(left) Vibeke Rytter:Without Title
(right) Vibeke Rytter:Without Title


(left) Morten Stræde: Mauerfall
(right) Morten Stræde: Disaster


(left) Nina Radelfahr: Hülle
(right) Thomas Lindvig: Doggy, Without Title