The HELLO Show

February 6^th – March 20^th 2010

We are very pleased to welcome you to the first exhibition The HELLO Show! in our new space. The exhibition includes works by 13 artists, all represented by the gallery.

Ida Kvetny’s large painting "The Meeting" explodes with abstractions and color, while the series of drawings by Søren Brøgger is kept in a tight graphic line that contrasts his vivid motifs from various movies. Japanese born Teiji Hayama’s portrait "Madone" shows a young fragile woman with a lamb in her arms, surrounded by religious symbols.

Keisuke Yamamoto (Japan) powerful yet feminine also works with symbols, but here, they consist of organic forms from nature, as seen in his two colorful paintings. Nature too is at the core of the next two artists; Yuji Watabe’s (Japan) finely detailed drawings of white winter landscapes and the sculptures by Lars Worm "I’M GOD" and "Changes", where nature's voice appears both political and romantic in a pantheistic perception.

"Delirious Disaster" by Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen depicts a building with great depth and perspective. A grid of colors brings the image in motion and pushes the balance point, so the architectural weight is suspended. In the series of photographs by Christine Clemmesen the randomness of real life creates tales of subtle humor and beauty, in a spatial context.

Kalim Yoon (Korea) stitches metallic thread by hand on antique etchings with animal motifs, and changes old illustrations into little sculptures. Like Yoon, Peter Rune Christiansen works in great details, but uses electronic music, that becomes polyphonic soundscapes in his paintings.

René Schmidt and Tommy Støckel both do sculptural works. Schmidt’s sculpture shows a human figure in motion, built in fractals, while Støckel with his site-specific wall imitates the decay of building materials. Judit Ström (Sweden) closes the circle with her gently painted composition full of dreamlike ornaments and figurations.

Welcome!