Exhibition Opening : Friday 21/3 from 15:30 to 18:00
Come to Artist Talks on Saturdays
22 & 29 March and 5 April at 13.00 hrs with:
22/3 Susanne Helweg, Per Frederiksen & Karen Bjerresgaard
29/3 Bodil Rosenberg & Bertine Knudsen
5/4 Birgitta Hallberg, Grete Siegler & Maria Bloch
“Cirklen” in Danish – this group of artists will show works with a wide range of media and themes from paintings, graphics, pastel chalk, watercolours, tapestries and wooden sculptures for Artists Books – a mixed genre between different artistic expressions. There is no thematic framework according to which the art must be classified. The works in the exhibition have been selected for the occasion by each artist and therefore reflect the artist’s works at present.
The Artist Association “The Circle” was founded in 2003 by a group of artists from “the 18th of November’s artists group” based in Copenhagen.
The artists:
Maria Bloch was born in Paraguay and raised in Buenos Aires with an Italian mother and a Danish father. When she was 8 years old, her family moved to Denmark.
Maria´s great interest in the South American culture is highly present in her paintings. Indeed, the intense colour palette and the temperamental brush stroke in her abstract expressionism seems to uncover a colour sensibility different than the Scandinavian one
Per Frederiksen says:
„I get inspired by the richness in variation. Normal is not the ordinary, but the whole package.
The collected sumptuous tangle – with all its possible and impossible growths and biases – and with countless smaller and larger variations and repetitions. This is huge and violent – and breathtaking – and maybe beautiful?
I walk along the beach or in the wood, finding strange things. I enjoy the marvelous and dainty patterns of stranded goods – a dried seed stage or a bird skull. I make notes – and draw and tumble with the graphic techniques. And I love sharing my experiences with others.”
Bertine Knudsen says:
“I build the expression in my works as a coincidence between the Beauty of Chance and transparency in the color combined with geometric figures, interpretations of rock carvings, ornaments from Al Hambra and from San Miniato al Monte in Florence. In my work I express myself in watercolour, oil painting, drawing, collage and clay”
As a point of departure, it is abstraction that occupies Bodil Rosenberg: colour, surfaces and structure. The recognizable elements that slide in along the way are coincidences that have only survived because they have meaning, as carriers of a colour.
Karen Bjerresgaard says:
“I am curious to expose organic forms from the earth, the sea, the microscope or the inside of an organism. In my work, I study bones coming from mammals and fish. Bones have indeed beautiful shapes that can be transformed into surreal sculptures or some printing tools. In this way,I created shapes independent from each other. Then, getting inspired by the artist Patricia Piccinini, I started composing works with prints of several bones, creating an even more surrealistic world which can remind of a forest or the micro vs macro universe”
Birgitta Hallberg says:
“On my black warp I weave my tapestries, my narratives, and my story inspired by tradition and old techniques. My tapestries sprout up from a warp with many colours, in different natural materials, with rose path technique which gives effect to form and colour. My smaller tapestries are most often weaved directly from the sketch book, sketches that are created on the desk or on my daily bicycle ride or on trips here or journeys abroad”.
Grete Siegler works with many different materials and often from a specific idea or a theme. Her work features creations such as acrylic, watercolour and gouache on paper, lithographic collages and embroidered textiles. The red color palette she uses is inspired by the bloody war as a theme, the Roman catacombs and the shades of red coming from the Sami shamans’ drums. Her art is characterized by the depiction of people coming from the non-material and invisible world
Susanne Helweg’s artistic practice includes both painting, graphics, video art, ceramics, bronze casting, installation and artist books.
The works are expressive, narrative with a subtle and humorous approach.
