William Anthony udstiller på Stalke Galleri

INVITATION

William Anthony

Velkommen til udstillingen med William Anthony, søndag den 30. august kl. 13-17

På Art Cologne i april havde Stalke i samarbejde med Thomas Rehbein Galerie den store fornøjelse at præsentere William Anton på Collaboration. Præsentationen fik stor opmærksomhed fra den tyske kunstscene og vi følger derfor op med to udstillinger; først på Stalke Galleri og ugen efter i forbindelse med DC-OPEN i Køln på Thomas Rehbein Galerie, her er åbning den 4. september.

William Anthony (New York) karikerer ubønhørligt alt fra krig til kunstverdenen samt kærlighedens glæder og vanvid. Anthony fortæller, at hans stil stammer fra de tegnefejl, som hans mindst talentfulde studerende udførte.

The New York Times skriver, at Anthony er "hilarious"  og  "profound", altså vanvittig morsom og dyb på samme tid, og at han har opnået kultstatus i kunstverdenen.

”I remain totally charmed by their (Anthony´s drawings) irrelevance, their sly idiot cunning, their incisive social commentary in the delicious disguise of incompetence”

LEO STEINBERG, Letter, 1990

I forbindelse med William Anthonys udstilling i 2013, IRONIC ICONS på Stalke Galleri, blev der udgivet en bog med William Anthonys samlede værk fra 60’erne og frem til i dag. Bogen bærer titlen IRONIC ICONS, er redigeret af Sam Jedig og med forord af Jacob Lillemose, som har fulgt kunstneren gennem mange år.

Udstillingerne kan ses frem til den 16. oktober 2015

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Stalke Galleri

Englerupvej 62, Kirke Sonnerup

4060 Kirke Såby

Email: stalke@stalke.dk   www.stalke.dk

Instagram: @stalke_galleri 

Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson

                                                                             HELGI THORGILS FRIDJÓNSSON

                                                                                       ØJNE I VERDENSØJET

                                                                                      

                                                                                           13.4 to 12.5.2013

Then God formed man out of clay from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.

Scientists have filled Richard III's skull with clay to see what he might have looked like.  One of Richard’s descendants, Michael Ibsen, showed up when the reconstruction was unveiled. There was a clear family resemblance between them.  Philippa Langley of the BBC was quoted as saying that when she studied the image of Richard’s face, he didn’t look like a tyrant at all.  "He’s very handsome," she said.

I have compared ideas with waves in the ocean. For a split second I imagine the waves freezes as I strike the crest of the wave with a tuning fork to form vibrations in the air, a kind of eternity, which is fixed in form, but at the same time constantly moving. Thus the artist slowly moves the brush and colours across the canvas until he stops time at the crest.  That is when the vibration is generated in the air.

The images in this series, which now counts a total of 273 pieces, should end at number 364, to complete the full picture. If we look on the original material as the skeleton, the idea can be seen as the clay that is used to flesh it out.  The process is not unlike the method applied to the reconstruction of Richard’s face. The lack of a skull fuels the creation of a reconstruction. A descendant shows up and acts as a kind of confirmation that the reconstruction has been successful. Philippa Langley of the BBC caused unease in the air when she said that such a handsome man could hardly be a tyrant.

On the basis of these assumptions, one can say that the clay that is used to fill the cracks and gaps in the environment is a transformative way of creating a human in 364 attempts.

Opening Saturday, April 13th from 1 pm to 5 pm

The exhibitions starts from April 13th to May 12th, 2013. 

Welcome

Sam Jedig

Stalke Galleri

Englerupvej 62, Kirke Sonnerup

4060 Kirke Saaby

mail: stalke@stalke.dk  - www.stalke.dk

William Anthony, Ironic Icons

William Anthony 

IRONIC ICONS

Opening Saturday, April 13th from 1 pm to 5 pm

Stalke Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition IRONIC ICONS by William Anthony (USA).

There will be a dual celebration - an exhibition of William Anthony's paintings and drawings and a book of Anthony's work, also titled IRONIC ICONS. The book has been authored by Sam Jedig. It will be presented to the public for the first time at this event.

Anthony relentlessly lampoons everything from the insanities of war to the lunacy of the art world to the joys and woes of love. Anthony tells us that his style derives from the terrible drawing mistakes of his least talented students. The New York Times tells us that Anthony is "hilarious"  as well as "profound",  and that he has achieved the status of a "cult figure".

The exhibitions starts from April 13th to May 12th, 2013. 

Welcome

Sam Jedig

Stalke Galleri

Englerupvej 62, Kirke Sonnerup

4060 Kirke Saaby

mail: stalke@stalke.dk  - www.stalke.dk

Jes Brinch and Vu Thi Trang

New Exhibition

24 March 2012 until 27 April 2012  

LOVE AND PAIN Vu Thi Trang

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE Jes Brinch

BACK  SPACE:

Stalke is proud to invite you to the two simultaneous exhibitions by Vu Thi Trang and Jes Brinch.
LOVE AND PAIN is an exhibition of paintings by Vu Thi Trang about women’s situation in Vietnam. The paintings tell stories about violence, abuse, poverty, superstition, prostitution, corruption, and love and pain. Trang's paintings are both very serious and fun at the same time, and all the stories told are based on real life. 


LIFE IN THE FAST LANE is a series of marble sculptures by Jes Brinch about the use of cocaine. The sculptures show a rock star, a designer, a ballet dancer, a journalist, a male stripper, a gallerist, two priests and a family on coke. The inspiration for the sculptures comes from astonishment about the fact that the use of cocaine has accelerated and become almost common in the last 10 years. A series of brand new paintings are also presented.


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FRONT SPACE:

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Thomas Bang, Albert Mertz, Jes Brinch, Dove Bradshaw, 
William Anthony, Anne Bennike, Vu Thi Trang, Søren Dahlgaard, Thorbjørn Lausten, Sam Jedig, Thorgej Steen Hansen, Bella Angora, Nikolaj Recke, Lone Mertz, Christian Falsnaes, Jeannette ehlers, Frithioff Johansen, Mogens Otto Nielsen, Berit Heggengougen-Jensen, Smike Käszner,Kristian Hornsleth, Barbara Husar, Flemming Brusgaard, Iv Toshain and Helgi Thorgil Fridjonsson



We look forward to welcoming you to the openings:
Saturday  March 24.  2012 

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Place:

Stalke Galleri
Englerupvej 62
4060 Kirke Sonnerup 
Denmark
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Sebastian Quedenbaum and Fabian Weinecke

Sebastian Quedenbaum and Fabian Weinecke

The Exchange and the Death
Stalke Out of Space and Flink has the great pleasure of announcing the exhibition The Exchange and the Death
November 18th. from 5 to 8, Nørre Alle 1, 2200 Copenhagen , Denmark

The idea for this exhibition was inspired by the great discomfort surrounding the most predominant ideology within the financial world, more specifically referred to as liberalism and marketing fundamentalism:  with “the invisible hand,” as Adam Smith metaphorically describes it, the market regulates itself, resulting in a win-win situation.  The fragility of this ideology is demonstrated quite obviously by the rising number of financial crisis within the last several years.

The artists can ask the question of whether or not the art’s instruments can play a critical role in an economical situation which is so complex, that trite, leftist propaganda art would otherwise be meaningless.

Central to Sebastian Quedenbaum’s works is the representation of the consequences of an economic system as experienced by the individual.  As Richard Sennett describes it in his book “The Flexible Person,” solutions are ascertained by hierarchies, along with a rising sense of insecurity within the work and living environments, and the resulting shift of responsibility to the individual in which the person feels coerced to constant personal evolution inspired and fueled by existential anxiety.

Sebastian Quedenbaum’s artistic investigation is not limited to one decided style or medium.  He uses instead varied approaches and medias:  reliefs and glaze paintings inspire, among other things, associations to socialistic realism, Nazi art’s Kitsch and propaganda art.  The more critical opinions are not always evident, but are instead often camouflaged as a tribute to capitalism.  Hence, there occurs an irritating, poetic space, in which the viewer him or herself can decide upon a position.

Collapse is the downside of the dogma of eternal growth.  Within the individual there arise symptoms of burnout and depression, whereas global symptoms manifest in the form of bankruptcy within firms, banks, and whole states.  Thus, finite is the enemy of capitalism:  the termination of the workday, the termination of all of earth’s resources, or the termination of human life as we know it.

Death is also the theme in Fabian Weinecke's works, but not in a programmatic sense.  His images, which are often characterized as intimate miniatures, are entirely developed from the color as a medium.  His image compositions are more intuitively founded, rather than calculated.  Although his images in many cases cite the paintings’ historic heritage (i.e. Carl Spitzweg, symbolism, or Francis Bacon), he maintains his own unique imagery.  This can be seen first and foremost in the suggestive power of the characters which inhabit his landscape:  archaic feminine figures and skeletons which seem to awaken the painting, bring it to life, and make the images his own.  Fabian’s works combine humorous impulses with a great respect for the painting tradition.

We look forward to welcome you to the opening on Friday November 18th. From 5 to 8 pm

Press photo

The exhibitions ends January 6th 2012
Open by appointment:


Contact:
Flink.
Nørre Alle 1
2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
e-mail: mette@flink-art.dk
+45 40319223

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Stalke Galleri/ Stalke Out Of Space
Englerupvej 62
4060 Kirke Saaby, Denmark
Phone: +45 29267433
www.stalke.dk
e-mail stalke@stalke.dk

NO MORE SPACE

Albert Mertz and Lone Mertz

ALBERT MERTZ AND LONE MERTZ
STALKE GALLERI KIRKE SONNERUP

October 1th. to November 3th.

Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup has invited Lone Mertz to curate a show which takes as its starting point the cooperation she had with Albert Mertz from 1974 until his death in 1990.
The show will include both known and unknown works, old and quite new, together forming a coherent installation.

Throughout his life Albert Mertz used many different artistic expressions, methods and media, but – as he often said - ”the difference is the same”! It was not about a certain style or form, but about the most precise way of showing content and meaning, which again and again was exposed to new investigations and new questions.

Albert Mertz was for many years occupied with the philosophy of the east, which also links up with his investigations around the colours red and blue, which interesting enough are also part of the Tibetan conceptual world.
It was this track Lone Mertz was to follow. The glass coffin she made on Glænø Beach in Denmark in 1993 was later installed, in a different form, in the Himalayas at 4.400 meters above sea level.  It still exists in the mountains as the glass in four windows in a tibetan temple, a fact which throws a symbolic light in the direction of Albert Mertz´first presentation of red and blue.
This presentation, in 1972 at Den Frie in Copenhagen, was accompanied by the work ”Painted Windows”, 7 photos printed on canvas and mounted on stretchers as paintings. The photos, taken by Albert Mertz' daughter, the photographer Susanne Mertz, showed some painted, false, illusory windows which one could not see through, and told about an art which no longer had the necessary transparency or relation to use for ordinary life, an art which blindly closed in on itself and its own conventions.
Art in the showroom or the gallery is a closed affair, often with a single-minded aim; but the red-blue proposition might still show us a way out of this sanctuary towards the life's diversity, where creative ability is the most important blueprint for human beings. 

Lone Mertz has throughout the years been involved in many shows with Albert Mertz. The latest in 2010 in Kunsthalle Lingen in Germany, where he was represented by some important works and two big reconstructions of painted walls. On the 6th. October 2011 Daimler Contemporary in Berlin opens ”Conceptual Tendencies 1960s to today” with, amongst others, 25 works of Albert Mertz, who with this exhibition has found a place in the history of art outside of Denmark.
This comes about now, just as the long awaited book with his comprehensive notes ”Mertz om Mertz” is about to be published by the Danish publishing house,Vandkunsten.

We look forward to welcoming you at the opening Saturday 1th. October from 13-17.


Stalke Galleri

Englerupvej 62

4060 Kirke Saaby

Denmark

e.mail: Stalke@stalke.dk

www.stalke.dk