Magasin 3 has now closed for the summer and opens again on September 11, 2009. Please see the information below about our upcoming Fall exhibitions.
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The Israeli artist Smadar Dreyfus is interested in how meaning is created as well as distorted in the meeting between that which we apprehend with our eyes and that which we hear. The exhibition at Magasin 3 will focus on her latest work, a large-scale installation called Mother’s Day (2008). Here she investigates the roll of the voice in the cultural context and how it functions as intermediary between the individual and the collective. Dreyfus distinguished herself at the 2005 Istanbul Biennial with her acclaimed work Lifeguards of the same year. The exhibition at Magasin 3 will be her debut in Scandinavia.
Curator: Tessa Praun
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Sol LeWitt holds a special position within the group of prominent Minimalists and Conceptual artists that were so pioneering at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 70s. He drew directly on a wall for the first time for an exhibition in 1968. For the remainder of his life he continued to work with what he termed wall drawings and investigated every line combination imaginable. Initially he restricted himself to horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines before expanding his geometric lexicon. The exhibition at Magasin 3 comprises works that like an artistic grammar focuses on his use of lines, that are visually chaotic, that emphasize the architecture and that are seductive color spectra. The artist is quoted as saying, ”every door is a wall”. In the exhibition each work leads to the next and rather than the Renaissance notion of painting being a window onto the world, the wall drawings are doors that lead the viewer into a world of ideas.
The American artist Sol LeWitt was born in 1928 and died in 2007. A number of retrospective exhibitions focusing on his wall drawings have taken place in the USA since 2000, most notably at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2000), Dia Beacon, New York (2009) and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2008-2033). In Europe the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presented a retrospective with LeWitt’s wall drawings in 1984.
Curator: Elisabeth Millqvist
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Opening on October 2, Magasin 3 will be hosting an exhibition with Tal R, born 1967 in Israel and based in Denmark. He describes his artistic style as 'Kolbojnik', the Hebrew word for leftovers:
I have a pot on the boil all the time and am continuously throwing new material into it”,
Tal R is Denmark's most widely recognized contemporary painter today. The artist has reached considerable international acknowledgement and was awarded the prestigeous Carnegie Art Award in 2002. Tal R's art is brightly colored with a deliberately naïve, abstract quality and his exhibitions become a voyage of discovery into a universe with a very direct expressiveness, which celebrates playfulness, spontaneity, imagination and creativity. He is probably best known as a painter but works in a number of media: sculpture, drawing, printmaking, installation, video and textiles. Currently he is also developing the experimental clothing brand MoonSpoonSaloon.
Tal R lives in Copenhagen, where he also has his studio. His most recent solo exhibitions include: Bonnefanten Museum, Holland (2008), Camden Arts Centre, London (2008), Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark (2007). He holds a guest professorship at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which he often “swaps” with colleagues at other art academies.
Curator: Richard Julin
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