Kristoffer Axén "Once There Was a Shock" & Jacob Dahlstrup "Cosmogonia"
Munch Gallery
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Munch Gallery presents two solo exhibitions: Kristoffer Axén (S), ‘Once There Was a Shock’, photography and Jacob Dahlstrup (DK), ‘Cosmogonia’, drawing. This will be the artists’ first solo exhibitions in New York, and we are excited to present a strong body of recent work. Both Axén and Dahlstrup will be present at the opening reception, Saturday, March 16.
With a photographic process resembling that of painting or sculpturing, Kristoffer Axén aims with his work to bring out the qualities of this all-pervasive willfulness, seen in the introspective expressions and shapes of figures driven onwards like certain fish that dies without motion. Or through ambiguous, vacant, scenes of buildings and its appendixes that pleads for a security from some prehistoric trauma still remembered and reinforced in dreams.
Jacob Dahlstrup: Through thick layers of graphite dust, I work from darkness into light. I am interested in the tonal values and reflective nature of the graphite. Leaving traces and textures by the impact of sanding tools, erasers and tattoo needles, I rearrange and expose the internal structure of the paper, to evoke a sense of unified mark-making base. My work explores representations of space, and search for evidence of our human existence on planet Earth. As a space chimpanzee, clinging to the hope of panpsychism in the event of an eternal orbit, I reach for stories, objects and celestial bodies I can relate to physically or reflect upon mentally.
[Image left: Kristoffer Axén, ‘The Conversation’, archival pigment print, ed. 7 + 2 AP, 26”x 34.5”, 2012. Right: Jacob Dahlstrup, Milkyway’, graphite on paper, 40”x 90.5”, 2013.]
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Schedule
from March 16, 2013 to April 14, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-03-16 from 19:00 to 21:00