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David Risley Gallery: Sometimes I wish I could just disappear - 7 May 2011 to 18 June 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Anna Bjerger. Interior. 2011. Oil on aluminium. 40 x 50cm
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Sometimes I wish I could just disappear May 7 - June 18 Opening Friday May 6. 17.00 � 20.00 Hurvin Anderson - Anna Bjerger - Patrick Caulfield - Dexter Dalwood - Des Hughes - Henry Krokatsis - Jenny K�llman David Raymond Conroy - Norbert Schwontkowski David Risley Gallery is proud to present a group show, Sometimes I wish I could just disappear. The exhibition presents images of mirrors in a variety of media. Images of mirrors, rather than images of reflections. The mirror is the invisible protagonist in art history. Every painted self-portrait is really a painting of a mirror. This is an exhibition of images of mirrors with the viewer missing, in a room surrounded by images of mirrors the viewer becomes absent, invisible, a vampire. Mirrors have long carried symbolic meaning, with strong associations to religion, cosmology, vanity, beauty, sex, death, magic and science. Why do artists choose to represent mirrors? Is it an attempt to portray nothing, an image of nothing. A perfect image. The mirrors represented here are not for self-contemplation, they are surrogates for the image, standins for the ideal image. They provide the possibility to make an image of an image. A blank. A void. These are mirrors to look at, not into. The artist is not present here, nor the viewer. Mirrors to reflect on. Surface. Object. Painting. In an interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gerhard Richter, regarding his mirror works, Richter says: �...perhaps somewhere there is an allusion to the fact that every picture is a mirror.� Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, UK) had a solo show at Michael Werner Gallery, New York earlier this year, in 2009 he showed, �Peter�s Series 2007-2009� at Studio Museum, Harlem, NYC (US) and presented a solo show as a part of Tate Britan�s Art Now. He is in the collections of Tate Britain (UK) and MoMA, New York (US). Anna Bjerger (b. 1973, SE) had a solo show at Paradise Row, London (UK) in 2010 and at Gabriel Rolt Galeri, Amsterdam (NL) in 2009. Later this year she will have a solo show at Dublin Contemporary (IR). She is in the collection of Stedelijk Museum (NL) and Moderna Museet (SE). Patrick Caulfield (b. 1936, d. 2005, UK) In 2006 Tate Liverpool did a survey of his prints. During his lifetime he had major solo shows at Hayward Gallery, London (UK) in 1999, Serpentine Gallery, London (UK) in 1993 and Tate Gallery, London (UK) in 1981 and 1978. Dexter Dalwood (b. 1960, UK) had a major solo show at Tate St. Ives (UK) in 2010. He has showed in Gagosian Gallery, London (UK) in 2007 and Gagosian Gallery, New York (US) 2004. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. His work is represented in many major international collections including Hamburger Bahnhof (DE) and The Saatchi Gallery (UK) Des Hughes (b. 1970, UK) had a solo presentation at Frieze Art Fair in London in 2010 with Ancient and Modern. In 2008 he showed at Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (US), He was included in Newspeak, Saatchi Gallery and has shown at Camden Arts Centre, Tate Britain, Henry Moore Institute. Henry Krokatsis (b. 1965, UK) had solo shows at FAS, London (UK) and Galeria Leme, S�o Paulo (BR) in 2010.He will have a solo show in the gallery in November 2011. His work is in many prominent collections including Zabludowicz, London, New Art Gallery Walsall (UK) and Government Art Collection (UK). Jenny K�llman (b. 1973) had a solo show at Instantan�s Institut Su�dois in Paris (FR). She showed at Reinier van Ewijk Projects in Amsterdam (NL) and Peter Hay Halpert ine Art in New York (US) in 2008. She has work in the collection of Statens Konstr�d (SE) and the Hasselblad Foundation (SE). David Raymond Conroy (b. 1978, UK) had a solo show at Seventeen Gallery in London earlier this year and at Shnittraum // Lutz Becker,Cologne (DE) in 2009. He has shown at TPSby, Barcelona (ES) and Mikael Anderson, Berlin (DE) in 2011 and performed at ICA, London (UK) in 2011 and at Tate Britain in 2009. Norbert Schwontkowski (b. 1949, DE) Norbert Schwontkowski (b. 1949, DE) had recently held solo shows at Dominik Mersch Gallery in Sydney (AU) and Mitchell Innes & Nash Gallery in New York (US) in 2010 and with Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (DE) in previous years. Museum shows at M�nchner Stadtmuseum, M�nchen (DE) in 2009, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin(DE) in 2008 and participated in the 4. Berlin Biennale in 2006. COllections include Essl Museum (AT), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For further information and press photos please write to [email protected] David Risley Gallery Bredgade 65A DK-1260 Copenhagen T: +45 26163671 [email protected] www.davidrisleygallery.com |
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