[August 29th 2002]
Press release

Lise Blomberg Andersen:
Somewhere in Finland

The leisure club MOGADISHNI
Artillerivej 40 house 9 stair b floor 4
DK - 2300 Copenhagen
+45 32543535
+45 32543545
mail@mogadishni.com
www.mogadishni.com

Exhibition: August 30 - September 28, 2002
Reception: Friday, August 30, 7-11pm

The leisure club MOGADISHNI is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition with the works of Lise Blomberg Andersen (Denmark) in the gallery.

The universe of Lise Blomberg Andersen's paintings is landscapes from the nordic hemisphere and the high mountains; the fresh, cool air and the scent of coniferous tree is revealed when one enters the space of the pictures. But this is not just a picnic. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, but underneath the seemingly idyllic surface, something lies in wait. But what? What does one meet out in the woods?

The paintings are populated by a mysterial hybrid race, animal bodies with human heads. Creatures that turn the welknown into the land of the unknown. We enter a world of mythology which brings to mind nice summer holidays from many years ago, and at the same time the fantasy is awaken and lets the sinister atmosphere spread. The condensed atmosphere makes the pictures quiver in a tension between idyll and anxiety, guilt and innocense, fantasy and reality. Finland - a destination that Lise Blomberg Andersen still has to look forward to -- becomes synonymous with the place where everything can happen; a mythical place.

The exhibition is in continuation of Lise Blomberg Andersen's latest exhibitions: "True-tree Stories", 2001, and "Sweet Schwammerl", 2002.

We welcome you in the gallery.

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