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/ SEPTEMBER 3rd – OCTOBER 9th 2011
DECEMBRISTERNE IN DIALOGUE WITH AUTHORS, ARTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SCIENTISTS.
New works of art by the members of Decembristerne formed the base for the artists' association's exhibition at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in the Fall of 2011. |
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Each member of the group participated in dialogue with an author, scientist or philosopher - thereby evoking another understanding of the process and the work - the idea was to emphasise each artist’s unique work in the context.
For Instance, Decembrist Steen Møller Rasmussen collaborated with the author and poet Morten Søndergaard, and Doris Bloom had paired with professor in physics at DTU, Tomas Bohr. Author and novelist Jan Sonnergaard verbalised the work of Elmer, while Hans Christian Rylander was visited by the vicar Poul Joachim Stender.
The interdisciplinary dialogue resulted in 16 texts, evolved from these collaborations. The texts are assembled in an exhibition folder.
The artists' associations represent a way of organisation, which has been important for the artists in order to survive in Denmark during the last century. This exhibition of Decembristerne showed how the idea of the artists' associations can be developed. The idea of the exhibition was to include both tradition and innovation and offer a view of our time and the variety in Danish art today.
Decembristerne is a non-homogeneous group. The group does not have a manifest or a universal goal, it is characterised by artistic individuality. It is the unique ways of expression and the investigations of what is central to human values, that characterise the artistic expression within Decembristerne.
The artistic language within the group finds its expression both within the traditional media of painting, sculpture and photography as well as within installation art. The exhibition was visually and thematically coherent and display an interdisciplinary and spiritual sense of community.
ARTISTS AND DIALOGUES:
• Elmer and author and novelist Jan Sonnergaard
• Doris Bloom and professor in physics Tomas Bohr
• Ole Broager og cand.scient & art. Finn Bendixen
• Henrik Flagstad and poet and dramatist Peter Laugesen
• Henrik Have and Claus Beck-Nielsen
• Ellen Hyllemose and farmer Niels Hyllemose
• Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen and Per Tybjerg Aldrich, Chief
Project Manager and Chief Market Manager at COWI A/S
• Heine Klausen and Magnus Thorø Clausen, PhD-student at the
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
• Oda Knudsen and author and editor Flemming Madsen Poulsen,
The Authors Publishing house Attika
• Jørgen Carlo Larsen and painter and graphic artist, professor at
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Jesper Christiansen
• Henrik Menné and poet Christian Bjoljahn
• Bodil Nielsen and artist Julie Sass
• Jesper Rasmussen and author and poet Gunnar Ekelöf (1907-68)
• Steen Møller Rasmussen and poet and author Morten
Søndergaard
• Ane Mette Ruge and partner and director for the communication
and advertisement company Mensch, Frederik Preisler
• Hans Christian Rylander and vicar and author Poul Joachim
Stender
In the exhibition there was also memorial presentations of work by deceased Decembrister Inge Ellegaard and Jan Leth.
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