Kalim Yoon 

Daniel Svarre 

January 18 – March 1 2008 

Preview Thursday January 17, 5-7 

New Interventions in Sculpture shows three young artists educated from Slade School of Fine Art in London and Konsthögskolan in Malmoe; Christine Emilie Clemmesen, Kalim Yoon and Daniel Svarre. 

Individually they make sculptures, installations and drawings reflecting tendencies in sculpture today. New Interventions in Sculpture focuses on sculpture and the object as an addition from a new generation of artists, whose sculptures contain poetry, humour and new formalism. 

Christine Emilie Clemmesen takes starting point in the gallery space, its visitors and identity. Movement and behaviour are focused, and meeting with the sculpture happens through bodily presence. By working with a field of tension between obstruction and fragility she examines how conflicting qualities of the works activate each other as detail, whole and contrast. Clemmesen exhibits, beside the sculptures, five stitched drawings and three lambda prints. Each piece carries a poetic expression with a humoristic tone, where through stories and anecdotes from everyday life are told. Christine Emilie Clemmesen (b. 1979, Copenhagen) graduated from Slade School of Fine Art 2007. She lives and works in London and Copenhagen. 

Kalim Yoon transforms furs from soft toys to hanging objects and makes kinetic toys freely move around the floor. The works contain playful elements, which through mechanics or transformation get bizarre. The transition between the teddy bear as a symbol of well-known and safe children’s universe to an alienated object describes the changes of perceptions between childhood and adulthood. Beside the sculptures are three etchings where Yoon has added silver and gold thread as a sculptural character to the framed objects. Kalim Yoon (b. 1980, Seoul) graduated from Slade School of Fine Art 2007. She lives and works in London, where she currently attends Florence Trust Residency Programme. 

Daniel Svarre’s sculpture is a male body wearing shirt and pinstriped pants embracing another man, or maybe himself? It can be hard to see if it is one person moving or three embracing persons. The sculpture focuses on the relationship between humans and identity of clothes, but also the anonymity the clothes show. Svarre exhibits, beside the sculpture, three coal drawings from the series "Sum of Fear" with phantom drawings of international wanted terrorists, murderers and other criminals as fictive stereotypes. The drawings focus on the fear of the alien and prejudice against looks. Daniel Svarre (b. 1976, Copenhagen) graduated from Konsthögskolan in Malmoe 2006. He lives and works in Copenhagen exhibited at Gallery Luis Adelantado in Valencia, Spain, and Ovengaden in Copenhagen. Daniel Svarre thanks Statens værksteder for Kunst og Håndværk and Selected.