Gudrun Hasle: Flag. 2016. Installation view

FLAG

GUDRUN HASLE

12.8 - 10.9.2016

Opening: Friday 12th August 2016, 5-8pm

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During the last 5 years, Gudrun Hasle has embroidered flags. Thus from 2011 to 2016, it has resulted 51 Dannebrog flags on leftover textiles, tea towels, old shirts or similar pieces of cloth. While working on other exhibitions and projects, the flag production has served as a kind of underlying catalyst, while also being its own artistic and meditative process. Initially, the flags were intended for the gallery's exhibition space to be presented closely on one wall. Like an overall statement or a resounding repetition, but as the flags vary in size, colour and background they open up for polyphonic layers of meaning.

Igennem de sidste 5 år har Gudrun Hasle broderet flag. Fra 2011 til 2016 er det blevet til 51 x Dannebrog på reststof, viskestykker, gamle skjorter og lign. Undervejs i arbejdet med andre udstillinger og projekter har flagproduktionen fungeret som en slags underliggende katalysator, mens det samtidig har været sin egen både kunstneriske og meditative proces. Fra starten er flagene tænkt til galleriets udstillingsrum, hvor de bliver præsenteret hængende tæt på én væg. Et samlet udsagn, en rungende gentagelse, men hvor der i flagenes variation i størrelse, farvenuancer og baggrundsstof åbnes op for flerstemmige betydningslag.

Gudrun Hasle (1979) graduated in 2008 from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Funen Art Academy. Selected exhibitions: Those who came before me (solo) Vejen Kunstmuseum, 2016. ”My charlthodt as a expat” (solo) at Brandts13 in Odense, 2015, minutes, hours, days weeks (solo) at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2015. Regler (solo) at Demorummet, Galleri Image, Aarhus, 2013. All for One. With Luana Perilli. Media Gallery, Bratislava (SK). A Room With a View. Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, 2013. 24 SPACES – A Cacophony. Malmö Konsthall (SE), 2013. Modsmerte (solo) at Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, 2012. FOKUS. Nikolaj Kunsthal, Cph. 2012. Enter 2011. Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, 2011.

Gudrun Hasle is represented in the collections of Trapholt, Kolding. Horsens Art Museum, The National Gallery of Denmark, and the National Museum of Photography, Denmark.