Exhibition Opening on Friday 3rd May 15.30-18 hrs.
Gitte will be present at her exhibition every day during the exhibition period, ready to introduce you to her works and technique.
The artist Gitte Harslev (b. 1949) has worked for 45 years with images, and it is especially paper as a material that has her focus; Gitte works on paper, with paper and from paper. At Gallery Krebsen, we have chosen to celebrate Gitte Harslev’s great and significant work as an artist, and the exhibition shows works from 1979 to now. The exhibition will present most recent works by the artist, and the common denominator for the works in the exhibition is paper: collage with handmade paper, sculptures and bowls in papier-mâché as well as graphics printed on paper. Gitte Harslev has an impressive portfolio of works, and the exhibition therefore also shows a broad retrospective of the artist’s work with graphics and not least the many graphic techniques such as linoleum cuts, black and white aquatint, color aquatint and etchings.
Gitte Harslev was educated 1976-80 at the School of Arts and Crafts (now the Danish Design School) and from 1989 to 2005 was head of the Graphic Arts Workshop at the Danish Design School, where she taught classic, artisanal graphic techniques. In her graduation thesis, Gitte worked with linoleum cuts, and it was also pictures with this technique that she first had recorded at a censored exhibition in 1976 at the Artists’ Summer Exhibition in Tistrup. Gitte has also and on several occasions had her works included at the censored exhibitions such as Charlottenborg’s Spring – and Autumn Exhibition and the Artists’ Autumn Exhibition.
Travel diaries: at the exhibition, the viewer will, among other things, experience the beautiful series Roman Letters from 2006 and ITALIA TERRA EST from 2009. Both series were created on the basis of several stays in Rome and its surroundings, where the artist e.g. lived at the Danish Institute. The series Roman Letters came about in connection with the stay at Circolo Scandinavo´s residence in Rome, which Gitte was assigned in 2006. Here, during the month she lived in the city, she worked through her experiences of Rome in a kind of diary series; collages in the form of diary accounts from the city, ancient and baroque Rome as well as the modern city. Roman colors, text fragments, fragments of walls, classical sculpture, fountains, marble and angels from the city are retold through the artist’s eye and with paper as format. Gitte Harslev herself describes the experience as follows: “Endless wanderings in the fantastic city. The visible encounter between past and present”. The series ITALIA TERRA EST from 2009 is a continuation of the Roman Letters but includes more of Italy, for example the cities of Naples and Florence as well as ancient Pompeii. The series depicts 25 collages consisting of Gitte’s own handmade paper processed in different ways. Each collage includes a letter, hand drawn, with the writing from Trajan’s Column from Rome.
The artist Gitte Harslev (b. 1949) has worked for 45 years with images, and it is especially paper as a material that has her focus; Gitte works on paper, with paper and from paper. At Gallery Krebsen, we have chosen to celebrate Gitte Harslev’s great and significant work as an artist, and the exhibition shows works from 1979 to now. The exhibition will present most recent works by the artist, and the common denominator for the works in the exhibition is paper: collage with handmade paper, sculptures and bowls in papier-mâché as well as graphics printed on paper. Gitte Harslev has an impressive portfolio of works, and the exhibition therefore also shows a broad retrospective of the artist’s work with graphics and not least the many graphic techniques such as linoleum cuts, black and white aquatint, color aquatint and etchings.
Gitte Harslev was educated 1976-80 at the School of Arts and Crafts (now the Danish Design School) and from 1989 to 2005 was head of the Graphic Arts Workshop at the Danish Design School, where she taught classic, artisanal graphic techniques. In her graduation thesis, Gitte worked with linoleum cuts, and it was also pictures with this technique that she first had recorded at a censored exhibition in 1976 at the Artists’ Summer Exhibition in Tistrup. Gitte has also and on several occasions had her works included at the censored exhibitions such as Charlottenborg’s Spring – and Autumn Exhibition and the Artists’ Autumn Exhibition.
Travel diaries: at the exhibition, the viewer will, among other things, experience the beautiful series Roman Letters from 2006 and ITALIA TERRA EST from 2009. Both series were created on the basis of several stays in Rome and its surroundings, where the artist e.g. lived at the Danish Institute. The series Roman Letters came about in connection with the stay at Circolo Scandinavo´s residence in Rome, which Gitte was assigned in 2006. Here, during the month she lived in the city, she worked through her experiences of Rome in a kind of diary series; collages in the form of diary accounts from the city, ancient and baroque Rome as well as the modern city. Roman colors, text fragments, fragments of walls, classical sculpture, fountains, marble and angels from the city are retold through the artist’s eye and with paper as format. Gitte Harslev herself describes the experience as follows: “Endless wanderings in the fantastic city. The visible encounter between past and present”. The series ITALIA TERRA EST from 2009 is a continuation of the Roman Letters but includes more of Italy, for example the cities of Naples and Florence as well as ancient Pompeii. The series depicts 25 collages consisting of Gitte’s own handmade paper processed in different ways. Each collage includes a letter, hand drawn, with the writing from Trajan’s Column from Rome.
