An exhibition of new paintings made in response to and integrated in the architecture of Rejsestalden’s former stables in Jægerspris. More Here is an editing note stuttered over, reminding to update. Depending on intonation and context, it shifts and misinterprets as a command, placeholder, offer, longing, or perhaps a reminder of the endless deviations in how we perceive the images and text we encounter today.
The paintings developed in response to early historical employment of linear perspective, particularly the Battle of San Romano triptych paintings by Uccello, which during the Renaissance, transcended previous depictions of 3D space. Carefully constructed battle scenes displaying what was then newly possible to depict in terms of depth. They freeze and capture choreographed movements, wild horses, weapons and soldier’s limbs flailing in the air. In this way they connect to the historical utility of the building, as well as shifts in depiction of perspective, visually, practically and conceptually.
The paintings are reconsidered in terms of perspective today, in light of the possibilities and pitfalls of endless artificially constructed versions of the world, both visually and in terms of information. A reminder perhaps of the possibility that there is endlessly more, beyond what we initially see or read. Images and information spun around, with no singular agreeable version of events, right and wrong, truth and falsehood, but instead various angles and modes of portraying what is real and what is constructed.
Unstable (I, II & III), Paint, dye and chalk on tarlatan & cotton, 510 x 300 cm
Thanks to Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond
Photos: Brian Kure