Lars Worm

New Rites

April 30th -  June 1st 2011

 

Vernissage Friday April 29th 5-7 pm

 

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Lars Worm’s exhibition New Rites.

 

Lars Worm works with a starting point innature and involves materials like found branches, twigs and leaves ininstallations and sculptures. The direct connection to nature is reflected inthe exhibition with the sculpture ”Chain”, which consists of two parts in achain made in Danish firwood.

 

However, New Rites differs in many ways from Worm’s earlier work as he now shows a moreminimalistic style. Especially his paintings on raw linen approches towards analmost graphic look, where the use of the three basic colors  red, black and brown together with thetransparency of the canvas form a special levity and abstraction.

 

The use of symbols like circles andgeometrical forms are given a special value by Worm, but without making aspecific meaning. The simplicity of the symbols forms in other words a newspirituality in Worm’s works. He explains about the exhibition:

 

”I wish to create a space which givesdifferent traces and hints of religious acts that either happened or are goingto happen. The religiousness is not reflected by the usual symbols we know, butfrom an aesthetic idiom, that is suggested instead of being instrusive. Severalworks have a clear spiritual spirit, which normally are found in more occultand dark spectras of faiths, that can seem almost misanthropic and fascistic intheir expression. At the same time there are works that are optimistic, somethat believe in the future and in life, and some might even show God’s trueface.”

 

There is a a sense of coolness and asudden distance to culture-creating religions in the works, but also a longingor a hope to believe. It is manifested in the photography ”I Want to Believe”,where the artist with a humoristic approach manipulates a cloud in the sky toreminiscent a UFO. 

 

Lars Worm (born 1977) graduated from DetFynske Kunstakademi in 2009. He exhibited at Kunsthallen Brandt’s, Odense, FynsKunstmuseum, Odense, Janusbygningen, Tistrup, Cirkulations Centralen, Malmö andat Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo. New Rites is Lars Worm’ssecond soloexhibition at Helene Nyborg Contemporary.