BANG, HØY & RIENBOTHE: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

12 December 2014 - 24 January 2015
To whom it may concern" is both an open and specific approach. Open to anyone who wants to, yet specifically aimed at those who just want to. Such a sophisticated generality characterizes the exhibition's three artists: Three significant figures in Danish art who have the constant study of materials and the understanding of things in our world as common knowledge. It is not straightforward to categorize any of them as only sculptors, painters or draftsmen: Figurative sculptures, spatial collages or words like "wall objects" must be used to characterize the works. Similarly, the works are not made of marble, oil paint or other exclusive artist materials. Instead, they are made of wood veneer, leather straps and fabric, cardboard, clippings and everyday objects. However, this is not "anti-art" or pure trash -aesthetics. The works are aesthetic and playful and offer the viewer who wants a presence where a lot happens in the simple components. The small work becomes large and can cause a jolt of reality. Without a common front being formed or the exhibition being launched as a collective manifesto, a common way of looking at the surroundings and a related way of working as artists can be felt through the exhibition. Art-historically, all three of them have their starting point in an area between hard minimalism, immaterial conceptual art and the more variegated postmodernism, filtered through the later turns of art in the course of their voluminous careers.