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Eske Kath
Isola
January 17 - March 15 2003
Opening Friday January 17 2003 from 17-19
It is a great pleasure to present the exhibition Isola with Eske
Kath in the gallery's project space. Isola is an installation, consisting
of two large and two smaller paintings, collages and a sculpture.
Eske Kath mainly works with painting and the structures that both
constitute space and eliminate the established notion of it. The
play between the two and the three- dimensional space, and his paradoxical
use of organic elements disintegrates the otherwise constructivist
space. The juxtaposition of ornamental, organic and seemingly uncontrollable
structures of nature (e.g. flowers, water, ramifications) and orderly,
graphic elements gives an impression of chaos. Revolving around
an epicenter (and a hanging of works according to one center), Isola
deals with personal chaos emerging from a large scale catastrophe.
Small houses are disrupted by a volcanic movement that frames the
paintings. And a speaker, placed on the wooden board on which one
of the paintings stands, shakes from a resonance that makes the
coffee poured onto it quake like earth. A smaller painting on denim,
simulates human skin. And the collages depict houses and nature,
disrupted by irrational structures of something that looks like
denim and skin. The elements from the paintings are condensed in
the sculpture which shows a house on a painted pedestal as if resting
on a cross section of strata. The pedestal has a speaker built into
it and the resonance seemingly makes the house shake. The sound
becomes tactile and sculptural in itself.
Isola has a ominous and melancholic feeling to it in the midst of
the visually beautiful and brightly coloured paintings and collages.
The play between the formalistic reflections on the materials, their
qualities and potentials, and the organic and poetic content creates
an aesthetics of oppositions.
Eske Kath will graduate from The Royal Academy of Art this summer.
It is the first time he shows in Galleri Nicolai Wallner. The show
is curated by Birgitte Kirkhoff Olsen.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
We would happy to assist you.
Kind regards,
Birgitte Kirkhoff Olsen
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