EXHIBITION

Family, art, work, surroundings

Hovedstaden, Copenhagen, 09/15/2017 - 10/07/2017

Skindergade 5

ABOUT

The exhibition Family, work, art, surroundings borrows its title from a work by the Danish artist, Stig Brøgger, who in 1972 conceptualised a number of conditions that play a determining factor in the production of art. In the photograph-based work, Brøgger points to the family in the photograph of the nuclear family at the dining table, as well as the work and thereby the amount of energy, time, experience, feelings, thinking etc. invested in artistic production. In addition, he also emphasises the more sensory conditions for production, such as the eye that sees, the stomach that feels, actions being taken and images being sensed. The art is drawn through art history, which can be seen in a photograph where Brøgger is flanked by two allegorical sculptures by the Italian sculptor Bernini; in a photograph of Parthenon, as well as the inclusion of an earlier work by Brøgger himself: 'Platformprojekt' (1970). By incorporating the surroundings, the work also refers to the contextual, and that art production must be placed in the spatial and thereby political, economic and social contexts.

Based on the four institutions in Brøgger’s work Family, work, art, surroundings, the artists in the exhibition articulates some of the conditions of which art is produced and various artistic approaches related to the act of producing – be it intentional, random, systematic, critical, collective, poetic or idiosyncratic. In the works, various contemporary forms of art production are examined with emphasis on the material and the medium that underpin the production and the effort that has been put into the the process of creating art – just as production based on friendship, community and the exchange of words, pictures  and ideas are highlighted. But also the contemporary spatial, institutional and social relationships that act as implicit conditions for the production of concrete work practices are unfolded.


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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Pia Rönicke

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