From 11 September - 11 October 2009
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PENING FRIDAY 11th September\, 5pm - 8pm
Denise Hawrysio
Etching Plate as Shield
Denise Hawrysio work purs ues the conceptual possibilities of printmaking\, especially in relation to her notion of site-specificity. Hawrysio produces her prints by employing external agents: human and physical. The prints are a collaboration between the artist and the world as she finds it\; the actions and motions of Hawr ysio’s surroundings leave their mark on her art\, with the result that each print is a still\, a frozen interface between the materials of art and the physicality of the world.
At Danske Grafikeres Hus she will be showi ng her most recent work\; Etching Plate as Shield based on a series of inci dents in London where social problems have resulted in fatal injuries: the etching plate is attached to the front of a jacket while she reenact the a ctions that led to these accidents. The final work is diptych consisting of a photograph of the reenactment and the etching itself\, with the marks th at have occurred during the process and an accompanying text that describes the incident.
Denise Hawrysio was born in Toronto and currently live s in London\, UK. She received her BFA from Queen’s University\, Canada\, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She works in a variety o f media including site-specific installation and prints and has exhibited h er work throughout Europe\, the United States and Canada. In 2006 she curat ed and participated in the group exhibition 15/1 (3) at Overgaden Institute for Samtidskunst and in 2004 had a solo exhibition at RACA in Copenhagen.< /p>
She is currently teaching and working in Vancouver at University of B ritish Columbia.
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Al Masson
Into Intimacy
Installation with drawing/print collages and a slide sh ow animation
Under the form of an Installation\, Al Masson will prese
nt some ink drawing collages with old found schoolbook print cuttings.
In connection will be shown a slide show drawing animation.
Each tim
e when visiting the exhibitions in the small room upstairs at
"Danske
Grafikeres Hus"\, Al Masson has had the feeling to be in a time
vacuum
. Like finding oneself in a small part of a brain where an
intimate me
mory would be hidden. The space has an intimacy of a child room. With this
kind of intimacy level in mind Al Masson wish to
develop a close dialo
gue between the works and the audience through the surrounding ambiance. Th
e installation process as in other Al Masson's works\, propose a full "phys
ical" experience to the "public-traveller" when entering the installation\,
a sort of travel in another space.
The ink drawings and prints colla
ges exhibited are through their
associations showing weird "fictional
intimate" images. Is it Al Masson
intimacy that is proposed there? Or
else are they just imaginative
association of ideas bursting up betwee
n the two mediums a kind of jeu d'images instead of jeu de mots. Still the
audience should discover
under the diverse "layers" a mutual "world" t
hat they could associate
themselves with. These disturbing and also fu
nny images in this
destabilizing space should remind a "memory" like h
aving opened by
accident a forbidden room. The slide show animation wi
th music
presented on a small screen will be not only a way to make pe
ople stay longer in the space but an invitation into a wandering story that
never ends and just asks a question.
Al Masson\, born in Marseille F
rance\, lives in Denmark since 1996 after many years in New York. He has st
udied at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts Brussels and Art Student League\, New Yor
k.