[20. maj 2004]
Pressemeddelelse



Start to enter
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Nils Stærk Contemporary Art

Start to enter
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Preview Friday, may 21, 17-19
May, 22 - June 26, 2004

Nils Stærk Contemporary Art
Njalsgade 19 C
2300 Copenhagen S
tel: +45 3254 4562
fax: +45 3254 4526
www.nilsstaerk.dk
Gallery hours Thursday - Friday 12-17, Saturday 12-15

It is with great pleasure that we present a solo exhibition of the Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson

The exhibition “Start to Enter” address the notion of sub cultures and how to access, as well as how to take part in, these environments. As the title of the exhibition implies, Einarssons work assume a relational entry to the works to enter their realm and the context they refer. The title can be found in the exhibition in a photography where the text is recognisable as a sign in the Subway of New York. The exhibition furthermore presents an installation of five paintings with the title “5 (words)”, a flag with the word “Liberty” - belonging to a fraction in the American Civil War, a series of paintings with the title “Outlaws”, and as well an edition: A drawing based on Charles Manson's text of the song “Home is where you’re happy”.

Referring the outlaw, Manson and the American Civil War, the theme of the exhibition is up front:

The notion of subversion and the undermining of the establishment. All works relate to the anti institutional and to the interference of concepts of freedom and the structures and organisations in society. In the same way as the “Outlaws” paintings appropriate logo’s of groupings that view themselves in opposition to the established, “5 (words)” refers to the standard reply of US-American anti governmental organisations while encountered with the official juridical system: ‘I have nothing to say’. In previous works Einarsson has explored alternative economies in society, existing in the in-betweens of official economic structures and thereby presenting the non represented in our political, economical and cultural system. Hence, also in the present exhibition the artist makes apparent the communicative strategies of inclusion and exclusion dominant in the culture we live in and the parallel systems existing on the boarder of the well known society. With a view on the institutions of society, Gardar Eide Einarsson explores how they are negotiated and how ways are found to escape them and work with different degrees of belonging and non-belonging.

Gardar Eide Einarsson (born 1976) lives in New York and Berlin and received his degree from the Academies of Bergen, Norway and Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and furthermore the Independent Study Program at Whitney Museum of American Art / Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York, USA. Einarsson has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the US in the last couple of years and recently presented one-person exhibitions in Marres Centrum Beeldende Kunst in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and Schnittraum in Cologne, Germany.

ART 35 BASEL · JUNE 16 - 21 2004
We are very proud of being the first Danish gallery to be accepted onto STATEMENTS on the art fair, ART BASEL. This year only 16 galleries from across the world have each been individually admitted to present one artist. We will exhibit a new work by the American artist Matthew Ronay - who recently received great attention on The Whitney Biennial of American Art in New York City.