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A photographic journey in Normandy
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8 DANISH ARTISTS
March 24 – June 19, 2022
Joakim Eskildsen
Torben Eskerod
Peter Funch
Veronika Geiger
Jeppe Lange
Emilie Lundstrom
Ebbe Stub Wittrup
JUMIÈGES ABBEY
March 24 – June 19, 2022
The works brought together in this exhibition are an opportunity to discover an abundant contemporary creation in Denmark. Photography is here associated with a rich palette of projects: works with a documentary profile intersect with original plastic and conceptual adventures. Nature occupies a large place: exploration of the mineral and vegetable world, contemplation of light. The artists engage in a reflection on time, question their perception of the world; they revisit the history of painting, digitally retouch images or reappropriate old processes, sometimes even operating without resorting to the camera. Supports other than paper and other mediums than photography are involved in their creation. But beyond this diversity of approaches, the works come to weave links with the place which welcomes them (stones of the monument, trees of the park, lapidaries of the abbey house), as well as with the historical and artistic heritage of Normandy in which is located the Jumièges site.
Lotte Floe Christensen, from the series Approach, 2011
Lotte Floe Christensen
Isolated (plants) & Approach, 2011
The artist develops a production of images closely linked to the methodical observation of a plant world: portraits of endemic plants photographed in situ, in front of a white paper background. A work inspired, among other things, by a famous botanical atlas undertaken in the 18th century: “Flora Danica”.
Lotte Floe Christensen
Born in 1979
Lives and works in Humlebæk, near Copenhagen
Joakim Eskildsen, “Skagen XIII”, 2008.
Joakim Eskildsen
Skagen, 2008
The exhibition presents a series made in Skagen, a territory located in the far north of Denmark and known for the particular quality of light that illuminates the landscape by the sea. A light and colors that have inspired many painters including some forged ties with the French Impressionists of their day.
Joachim Eskildsen
Born in 1971
Lives and works near Berlin
www.instagram.com/joakimeskildsen/
Represented by Polka Gallery, Paris
Peter Funch, “Possibilities of the future. Realities from the past”, Bulbjerg, Denmark, 2019. Courtesy V1 Gallery.
Torben Eskerod, “Life and Death Masks”, Ulla Poulsen Skou, 2001. Courtesy Kant Gallery.
Torben Eskerod.
Life and Death Masks,2001;
Damaged Portraits ,2011
Two variations on the register of the portrait inscribe in an original way the marks of time on known or anonymous faces: the large format photographs of plaster casts dialogue with portraits whose surface of the prints has been accidentally damaged. The photographic material comes here to echo the lapidaries installed in the abbey dwelling.
Torben Eskerod
Born in 1960
Lives and works in Copenhagen
Represented by Kant Gallery, Copenhagen
Peter Funch
Possibilities of the future.
Realities from the past, 2019 – 2021
He composes, from inside bunkers and following a meticulous photographic protocol, views of the marine horizon in black and white; they are part of an ongoing project on the Atlantic Wall which takes him from Norway to Spain. This project is enriched with shots he took on the Normandy coast for this exhibition.
Peter Funch
Born in 1974
Lives and works between Copenhagen and Paris
Represented by V 1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Veronika Geiger, “Hraun” No. 6285, Icelandic Institute of Natural History, 2016.
Veronika Geiger
Hraun, 2016
His totally abstract works are the expression of an approach that crosses photography and scientific research: a dive into the mineral world, in the middle of volcanic rocks from a lava desert (Holuhraun) located in Iceland. Work that she has been carrying out for several years now, in collaboration with teams and scientific institutions from different countries.
Jeppe Lange, “Depiction of the Light” (video still), 2021.
Jeppe Lange
Depiction of light, video, 2022
“In this work, hundreds of impressionist paintings dissolve to create an animated film with hypnotic effects. The work looks at the world as patterns made up of pure colors and brushstrokes. She questions the photographic reality and offers a look freed from any categorization. J.L.
Emilie Lundstrøm, “The View” (cyanotype on paper), Copenhagen, 2019.
Ebbe Stub Wittrup, “Presumed Reality # 4”, 2007. Courtesy Martin Asbæk Gallery.
Ebbe Stub Wittrup
Presumed Reality, 2007 – 2013
The scenes of group excursions in mountain landscapes in Norway come from slides from the 1950s that Ebbe Stub Wittrup found at flea markets. He enlarged and reworked them in such a way as to blur the perception of reality, in particular by reversing the focus.
Emilie Lundstrom
Inaccuracies, 2018 – 2021
With Inaccuracies the artist revisits the old process of cyanotype to create monochrome prints that incorporate the uncertainties associated with this type of image production. The subjects, landscapes and self-portraits, are printed on paper and on the surface of various stones. These create a dialogue with the mineral environment of the abbey dwelling and the abbey and underline the way in which the images are inseparable from the material on which they are printed.
Emilie Lundstrøm
Born in 1985
Lives and works between Copenhagen
and Gilleleje
Ebbe Stub Wittrup
Born in 1973
Lives and works in Copenhagen
Represented by Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
The exhibitionEight Danish artists is produced by Northern Lights for the Department of Seine-Maritime.
It is placed under the high patronage of the Royal Danish Embassy and has benefited from the assistance of the Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs of Denmark as well as the assistance of the Danish Arts Foundation.
It was produced with the assistance of galleries Martin Asbaek ,V1 andKanto from Copenhagen.
