Galleri Tom Christoffersen

exhibitions

Harry Pye (in collaboration with Rowland Smith): Sleepless in Slagelse. 2008, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

By showing the group exhibition EVERYDAY LIFE Galleri Tom Christoffersen welcomes you to a humane small talk with an edge. The stories in the simple figurative paintings by Harry Pye (UK), Krista Rosenkilde and Andreas Schulenburg (D/DK) are told at eye level and by using elements known from caricature drawings, fairy tales and comic strips.

“You looks good you must be doing fine” – “Yes I have had a haircut I am feeling just fine actually”. The grammatically incorrect quote is from an exchange of commonplaces between a fox and a hen, which in the series “Reven og hønen” (The fux and the hen) by Andreas Schulenburg has fatal consequences. Harry Pye uses text in his works as well. The paintings are often collaborative pieces done with his friends. Among friends happen to be a comedian who have stopped being funny, young British Muslims who've been shot at by the police, a former chess champion who has lost his concentration and a magician who has lost his confidence. With a sense of humour and a caring approach Harry Pye presents characters in the middle of existential contemplations. Krista Rosenkilde is like Andreas Schulenburg and Harry Pye not afraid of using the banal. But she puts certain cultural identities into play by working from a distance instead of up close. She paints bittersweet symbols on tradition and everyday life as she works with classical oppositions such as culture vs. nature and dangerous vs. harmless etc. It is exactly between these categorical oppositions and in the middle of the many clichés on everyday life that Rosenkilde points at the grey zone of contemporary living. A condition of ‘both-and’, of an idyllic and safe community and its at the same time closed and excluding reality.

EVERYDAY LIFE touches upon a certain kind of national identity, on petite bourgeois self-conception and ways of acting. Or just minor life-crises, joys and reflections, which prevents outlook and displaces an interest in problems affecting humanity on a larger scale. Despite the edgy issues the paintings are light and clear rather than condemning. Exactly this humoristic ‘go-happy’-strategy seems in all its absurdity to lower the parades and dissolve the facades from within.

Harry Pye (1973/UK) is represented by Sartorial Contemporary Art, London. The artist graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1995.
Krista Rosenkilde (1982/DK) is represented by Galleri Tom Christoffersen. She graduates from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen in 2009.
Andreas Schulenburg (1973/D+DK) is represented by MOGADISHNI. The artist graduated from the Royal Academy of fine Arts, Copenhagen in 2005.Heinz Schmöller (1975/D) exhibits in Cube. He is represented by Komet Berlin. The artist graduated from HfBK Dresden in 2006.

Selected works from the exhibition

EVERYDAY LIFE

Harry Pye (UK)

Krista Rosenkilde

Andreas Schulenburg (D/DK)

Press information in Danish (PDF)

Duration

25.04. - 24.05.2008

Opening

25.04.2008 5-8 pm

Cube

Heinz Schmöller (D): Bügelbilder

Harry Pye
Stir Crazy
2007
acrylic on canvas
50 x 120 cm (total dimension of the three elements)

Harry Pye
Stump
2006
acrylic on canvas
91 x 91 cm

Krista Rosenkilde
Red Labyrinth
2008
oil on canvas
200 x 190 cm

Krista Rosenkilde
Tekno
2008
oil on canvas
150 x 150 cm

Krista Rosenkilde
Skeleton
2008
oil on canvas
180 x 140 cm

Left:
Krista Rosenkilde
Abstraction On Table
2008
collage on paper
40 x 30 cm

Right:
Krista Rosenkilde
Bathroom
2008
collage on paper
40 x 30 cm

Krista Rosenkilde
Danmark Dejligst (Denmark At Its Best)
2007
oil and acrylic on canvas
130 x 130 cm

Andreas Schulenburg
Hjorten (The Stag)
2008
Indian Ink, alkyd, oil, acrylic, lacquer on canvas
60 x 80 cm

Andreas Schulenburg
U.T. (from series of six paintings: Reven og hønen)
2008
Indian Ink, alkyd, oil, acrylic, lacquer on canvas
each piece 30 x 40 cm

Andreas Schulenburg
U.T. (from series of six paintings: Reven og hønen)
2008
Indian Ink, alkyd, oil, acrylic, lacquer on canvas
each piece 30 x 40 cm

Andreas Schulenburg
U.T. (from series of six paintings: Reven og hønen)
2008
Indian Ink, alkyd, oil, acrylic, lacquer on canvas
each piece 30 x 40 cm

Andreas Schulenburg
U.T. (from series of six paintings: Akmit og Kurt)
2008
posca tusch, ink, lacquer on canvas
each piece 50 x 60 cm

Purchased by Københavns Kommunes Kulturudvalg

Andreas Schulenburg
U.T. (from series of six paintings: Akmit og Kurt)
2008
posca tusch, ink, lacquer on canvas
each piece 50 x 60 cm

Purchased by Københavns Kommunes Kulturudvalg