Selected Works: On view

The gallery is pleased to present a curated selection of works by Gene A'Hern, Coline Marotta, Ry David Bradley, Petra Cortright, Rune Bering, Andrea Villalón, Abel Burger, Zane Lewis, Garrett Pruter, Ken Taylor Reynaga, Linet Sánchez and Kristian Touborg. The works are on display at our Copenhagen gallery through 15 March, 2024. ⁣

Ry David Bradley's (b.1979, Australia) exploration of visual representation is fuelled by a constant negotiation between the history of manual image-making and the rising influence of digital artifice within the cultural imaginary. Having never worked with a brush on canvas, for the last twenty years Ry David Bradley has been forging a new path for the next generation of digital painters; a group for whom artistic expression will be best realized using software tools. Coline Marotta's (b. 1991, France) gentle expressionist paintings depict a mood of tranquility, comfort, and reconciliation. Her contemplative characters are long limbered, found in acts of embrace or reaching out, adding a sense of intimacy to the cramped spaces they inhabit. Since finishing her MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2017), Marotta has exhibited at Mine Project (Hong Kong), The Tennis Elbow (NYC) and the Public Gallery (London), amongst others. Her work has been included in public collections such as Statens Kunstfond, alongside multiple notable private collections. Petra Cortright's (b. 1986, US) multifaceted artistic practice stems from creating and manipulating digital files. Cortright's core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using consumer or corporate software, printed onto archival surfaces, projected onto existing architecture, or mechanically carved from stone.  Cortright's role as artist is an amalgam of painter, graphic designer, editor, and producer; culminating in a singular artistic reflection of contemporary visual culture that can exist on a smartphone screen, a Times Square billboard, and anything in between. Garrett Pruter´s (b. 1987, US) interdisciplinary practice delves into themes of memory, absence, repression, and desire. Using painting, photography, video, sound, and sculpture, Pruter exhumes traces of consciousness and desire within the collective archive of imagery. Through processes of erasing, liquifying, and rematerialising narratives, Pruter's work explores hidden meanings and inherent understandings. Andrea Villalón (b. 1995, Mexico) figurative paintings and stained glass works emerge from a highly personal and transformative exploration of identity, representation and self-reflection in the 21st Century. Every painting is considered a self-portrait and is reflective of Villalón's personal experience. While reminiscent of Mexican masters such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo in both her portrayal of the everyday and the symbology of objects, Villalón also utilises her practise as a kind of psychological investigation more akin to how Pedro Reyes use and promotes therapy as an agent for positive and enlightening change. Kristian Touborg (b. 1987, Denmark) multidisciplinary practice centres on assemblage; both in his sourcing of various unconventional materials, and his wide-spanning use of historical, digital, and personal references. Epitomizing a contemporary dualism, Touborg balances on the axis of a traditional painterly practice and the role of a futurist, imagining archaeological structures from a forthcoming society.  Touborg holds an MA from the Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design (2016). His work has recently been exhibited at Kiaf, Seoul (2022) and Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca (2022), and has been included in several notable public collections, including HEART Museum and Statens Kunstfond. Abel Burger (b. 1982, France) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice ranges from oil pastel and drawing to video works and written essays. Strongly influenced by the artistic movements of the 1990s, Burger was a central member of the Parisian underground scene, authoring texts on gender and identity, and developing video work series. Burger's interdisciplinary practice has since expanded to new formats, including highly detailed oil pastels on paper and balsa wood. Inspired by a passion for ancient cultures and architectural spaces, these works explore concepts of individual mythologies in which ancient memories, energies, and beliefs come together to create a new system of images, narratives, and emotions which the artist terms 'archaeologies of the future'. Linet Sanchez (b. 1989, Cuba) multi-disciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, and video formats. Her work focuses on memories and mental imagery related to architectural spaces, through reconstructions in cardboard or wood models. Sanchez's non-inhabited environments speak to the relationships between memory, oblivion, and constructions of the mind. Sánchez is a graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (2013) and of the Professional Academy of Fine Arts Leopoldo Romañach (2008), Santa Clara, Cuba, majoring in Painting. Her work has been exhibited across the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean, including at CC Mechelen, Belgium (2022) and the Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida (2018). Rune Bering (b. 1984, Denmark) holds an MA from The Royal Danish Academy (2013). His work has been exhibited widely in Denmark and internationally, at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Ringsted Galleriet, Koenigzwei (Vienna), Augustenborg, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, inter.pblc., and OK Corral. His work has been published in Pist Protta, Politiken, Supertanker, amongst others, and is included in the collection of Statens Kunstfond. Bering is currently exhibiting his solo exhibition 'Bycatch' at Nikolaj Kunsthal and will follow with a solo exhibition at Møstings Hus opening in June 2024. Zane Lewis (b. 1981, US) paints ethereal spaces that shift perspective as you walk towards and around them. Fusing historical inspiration with the graffiti experience of his youth, Lewis' works transcend the abstract and instead becomes manifest expressions of his own emotions at the time of production. Up close size and spacing of the spray-paint application is incredibly controlled, while the overall effect creates 'a sense of danger and mystery' referencing everything from pointillism and phenomenology to California's Light and Space movement. Ken Taylor Reynaga's (b. 1990, US) work envisions the Central Californian Valley as a new frontier forged by narratives of rebirth and transformation. The political in Taylor Reynaga's practice is subtle, often embodied, viscerally felt, and cited in the most private acts, and despite the bold painterly gestures and bursts of bright colour that have come to define his stylistic approach, there is a contemplative quietness in this work. For Taylor Reynaga, seemingly private moments - of significance only to those who experience them - are where we confront the broader contradictions of being human. Gene A'Hern (b. 1993, Australia) invites viewers on a journey through the fusion of autobiographical meditation and spontaneous impulse. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, A'Hern's work is arbitrarily engaged in modernist painting, yet looks inward to echo a unique pictorial language. Here, depth and movement reveal a lyrical illustration of place.