Idéen om et landskab rejser videre

Læsø Kunsthals sommerudstilling, “Idéen om et landskab”, havde en universel appel. Det understreges ved at den nu rejser videre og genopstår i en ny udgave hos Galleri TESE i Aarhus.
Poster til udstillingen Idéen om et landskab II

Artist talks (video)

 

Conversations and exhibition curated and recorded by Jon Eirik Lundberg. Music by Jon Eirik Lundberg and Håkon Lervåg.

 

 

Martin Askholm reflecting on his landscape paintings in Laesoe Art Hall

 

 

 

The Danish painter Jeppe Kruse talks about his paintings in the exhibition “The Idea of a Landscape” in Laesoe Art Hall. The recording was made in Normandy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norwegian painter Tommy Johansson talks about his works in the crossing between art books and originals, and the poetic elements in his “photo album” landscapes. The paintings are part of the exhibition “The idea of a landscape” in Laesoe Art Hall, July – September 2023.

 

Plakat for udstillingen Ideen om et landskab

Årets hovedudstilling: Idéen om et landskab

Maleri af Martin Askholm

Sommeren 2023 viser vi tre eminente malere der fra vidt forskellige udgangspunkter forbinder landskaber og erindring i deres værker. De følelser man var hensat i på det sted, eller som opstod i én lige dér, eller som nu kommer til udtryk i billedets udsnit af verden.

Martin Askholms “formelle landskabsmaleri” er udstillingens afsæt, og titlen stammer fra hans egen beskrivelse af hans værker. “Mit maleriske ærinde er ikke at gengive et landskab med nøjagtig fotografisk præcision. Det kan fotografiet gøre meget bedre. Udgangspunktet er at gengive en følelse som stedet gav mig da jeg selv var der.”

I snart 200 år har kunstnere fra P. C. Skovgaard over Johannes Hofmeister til Per Kirkeby fortolket Læsøs natur og terræn. Nogle af Asger Jorns akvareller kan se ud som landkort, og hos Kirkeby kan man finde farver fra Sønder Nylands lavvandede havbund.

Udstillingen tager denne tradition et helt nyt sted.

Hvor Martin Askholms malerier begynder med hans egne feriefotografier, maler Tommy Johansson frem øjeblikke af en natur som i et og alt er en metaforer for følelsesmæssige erfaringer; men hans værker er udført i samme format som et almindeligt fotografi, monteret på den type karton man bruger til fotoalbums.
 


Jeppe Kruses billeder er udført i løbet af få øjeblikke; med blæk på ubehandlet lærred fremkalder han “abstrakte erindringer”, hvor man ser spor og konturer af byer, maskiner, mennesker; en indre verden som en strøm af fragmenter fra den man bevæger sig rundt i.
 
 
Maleri af Jeppe Kruse

 
Vi glæder os til at åbne udstillingen den 6. juli kl. 17:00.
 
 
 
 
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This summer’s main exhibition, “The idea of a landscape”, presents three eminent Scandinavian painters dealing with time, space and recollection. The “formal landscape paintings” of Martin Askholm (DK) is the exhibition’s point of departure. Rooted in strict pop-art and strong-colored graphical prints, Askholm embarked on landscape painting almost by accident. His pictures begin as a holliday photography which is the interpreted into his particular style. “My task is not to depict the landscape itself”, he says, “but to articulate my emotional experiences of it”.
 
Maleri af Martin Askholm
 
 
The Norwegian painter Tommy Johansson is working in different media and practices, possibly mostly known in Norwegian public life as a rebellious artist testing the limits of freedom of expression. Less known is his deeply poetic and contemplative oil paintings, which are made in the size of ordinary photographical prints, mounted on carton used for family albums. Even though they are completely abstract, envisioned solely in Johansson’s own working process, one quickly recognizes the “places” they depict.
 
 
Maleri af Tommy Johansson
 
 
 
Jeppe Kruse (DK) has developed a very characteristic styl designated “abstract memories”. With rapid, intuitive movements ink is brushed upon unpreparated canvases within only a few seconds. The result is an ever-expanding serie of imagery with fragments of buildings, city scapes, industry and people. As if memories are finding their way to visibility through a certain mediative state of mind.
 
 
 
 
Painting by Jeppe Kruse
 
 

 

The exhibition opens on July 6th at 5 am
We look forward to welcome you