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PASSAGE
Painting – Installation
Exhibition in the Round Tower
9 April – 22 May 2011
Grazyna Gotz - Pascale Serre -
Marianne Thygesen
Three artists focus on death,
both as a private affair and as a cultural phenomenon, using
the notion of the passage as a symbol of the transience of
life and the crossing over into death.
Pascale
Serre
Life as a passage. Death as an
integral part of life. Pascale Serre collects her dead. She
paints people who meant a lot to her and who died, a final
salute to those encountered on her journey through life. She
paints them from a photo as she remembers them and loved
them. Each of them is portrayed with an animal, according to
an ancient shamanic tradition. She wants to follow death,
step by step, until her own death. The collection will
surely grow large over time.
Pascale Serre presents her works for
this exhibition
Grazyna
Gotz
In contrast to Pascale Serre
who surrounds herself with her dead and paints them so as to
keep them with her as her companions through life, Grazyna
Gotz has recently fought hard to overcome death and bury it
deep in her memory. She experiences it as a vital part of a
former life, combined with a powerful desire to look ahead.
Grazyna Gotz’s paintings, with their glowing reds, yellows
and oranges, their deep greens and intense turquoises,
radiate energy and a zest for life. They insist on life’s
unsuspected forces and its untapped potential. In this
exhibition Grazyna Gotz takes us on a journey through life –
from grief to regained joy of living.
Grazyna Gotz's
inspiration
Marianne
Thygesen
The basis of Marianne
Thygesen’s work is Etruscan art which features the dead
reclining on their sarcophagi, in the position of banqueters
at an eternal feast with their ancestors. She transposes
this tradition,
characterized by its colouring
and symbols, to other cultures. Her paintings thereby
express the inevitable fate of the individual and the
different ways in which diverse cultures deal with it.
Marianne Thygesen's inspiration
Find out more about the three
artists:
http://www.pascale-serre.dk/
http://gotz.dk/
http://mariannethygesen.net/
For more
information please contact:
Curator, mag.art.
Marianne
Barbusse
Tlf. 60 85 47
15
mariannebarbusse@yahoo.com
The exhibition was sponsored
by Konsul George Jorck og Hustru Emma Jorck’s Fond and
Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond.
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