Art Copenhagen

Vibrant and chaotic. Art Copenhagen last weekend. Many galleries wanted to show many many of their artists at the same time. It turned out to be a great  adventure to weave one’s way through different  expressions and techniques.  One should have blinkers, or a cornet with a small hole in the end, to be able to give the art works the space they deserve.  What a hotchpotch, but many pearls in the jungle are to be found.

 

Some, like the works by Marijke van Warmerdam created an intermission.  Galleri Susanne Ottesen gave their entire stand to one artist. Photos of the reflection of trees in water, printed on mirrors and turned upside down. The viewers also become a part of the work. What do we really see? Three works and a lot of space, simple, clear and sparkling in this environment. Art Copenhagen is a nice art fair and comfortably small in size.

 

Martha Rosler! I smile. It’s great to see her work in the State of the Art-part of the fair.  Rosler plays a manic housewife with an almost hidden panic in her video “Semiotics of the Kitchen” from 1975.  She shows different household utensils and says the name of them and try to be objective. When writing the letters of the alphabet with a knife and fork in the air she looks like she came out of a Samurai or Kung Fu-movie or the Tarantino-film “Kill Bill”, but in a more 70ties-style. Imagine her in an exploitation film from the same time!

 

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