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 Thomas Bangsted: Plantation Field. 2009, Archival Pigment Print, 149 x 195 cm, edition 1/6 (+2AP) COUNTRY & SEA is Thomas Bangsted’s first solo exhibition at Galleri Tom Christoffersen. The pictures have been selected from large-scale photographs produced over the past two years while the artist travelled the American Midwest and the coastline of the Eastern Seaboard. The work makes a return to photography’s extraordinary capacity to imagine and articulate the landscape at the intersection between nature and civilization. Drawing upon a wide historical context surrounding landscape and its representation, Bangsted depicts the American exterior from the point of view of an outsider. The work is at once descriptive and metaphoric, as the artist in some pictures looks underneath the glib surface of a contemporary commonplace, while in others uncovers a melancholic and monumental beauty found in the outdoor ordinary. The subjects are diverse and Bangsted’s ever expanding narrative is populated by a wide range of protagonists: A horse and rider paused midair, hungry pelicans in a shabby harbour, a lineup of patriotically decorated cement trucks and tea party vessels bobbing in a pool of reflections. With an acute sense of the uncanny, these tightly composed pictures examine the fissures between human and natural infrastructure. The quiet tension produced vacillates between unbearable familiarity and rich pictorial sensation. Technically, the meticulous photographs are the result of multiple exposures of the same scene recorded over a period of time ranging from a few hours up to several months. These parts are later combined into a single transparent image. The work pushes the boundaries of the still photograph, using technology to represent land and sea in subtle but significant ways without undermining the viewer’s suspension of disbelief. In this way, Bangsted’s work tests the precarious balance between composing pictures and capturing the world. Thomas Bangsted (DK,1976) earned degrees in fine art from Glasgow School of Art (2004) and Goldsmiths College, University of London (2005). He graduated with an MFA in Photography from Yale University, School of Art in 2007. His photographs have been exhibited at venues in Europe and North America. Notably at The Barbican Centre, London (2004), The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art (2004), New York Photo Festival (2008), and more recently at The Prague Biennial 4 (2009). In Denmark Bangsted’s work has been shown at Gl Holtegaard (2009) and Fotografisk Center (2006) among other places. Concurrently with this exhibition, a selection of Bangsted’s maritime photographs will be on display in the exhibition Lost at Sea at Heather James Fine Art in California, and later in 2011 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. Thomas Bangsted is represented by Galleri Tom Christoffersen. For more information about the artist please click here  Selected works from the exhibition |
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Thomas Bangsted Fisherman’s Wharf 2009 C-Type Print 182 x 285 cm edition 1/6 (+2AP) Purchased by the Danish Arts Foundation |
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Thomas Bangsted Cash Concrete 2009 C-Type Print 182 x 210 cm edition1/6 (+2AP) |
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Thomas Bangsted Main Street 2008 Archival Pigment Print 137 x 181 cm edition 1/6 (+2AP) |
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Thomas Bangsted Value City 2009 Archival Pigment Print 150 x 182 cm edition 1/6 (+2AP) |
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Thomas Bangsted Aquarama 2007 Archival Pigment Print 149 x 266 cm edition 1/6 (+2AP) |
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Thomas Bangsted Beaver and Eleanor 2008 Archival Pigment Print 97 x 111 cm edition 1/6 (+2AP) |
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Søren Lose Torslundevej Light-jet/Dibond 60 x 80 cm Ed. 2/5 |
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Søren Lose Lyttesholm Light-jet/Dibond 60 x 80cm Ed. 1/5 |
Thomas Bangsted (DK/US)
