Square Beads
06.01 - 21.01
Square Beads – an impossible title, unless in this case we are thinking of paintings, collages and hand-coloured etchings. Not only are these selected artworks square, but so is the hanging, as the artworks are presented in distinctive blocks.
In this context, the word pearls refers to artistic pearls, which the artists Nana RH Bastrup, Marius Martinussen and Vilmantas are behind.
All photos have individual links to the artworks:
Nana RH Bastrup
Exhibition view
Nana RH Bastrup, Untitled, 34 x 46 cm with frame, 2013
Nana Rosenørn Holland Bastrup (b.1987). The series (Vienna Color Affairs) was created in 2013, when Nana RH Bastrup was on exchange at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. Here she worked on a series of collages/drawings where she explored the fields of tension and dynamics between the sexes.
Marius Martinussen
Exhibition view
CROSSHATCHED, 100 x 120 cm, 2022
Marius Martinussen (b. 1978). The series CROSSHATCHED was created with inspiration from the American artist Jasper John (b. 1930), who in the 1960s created a series with the title CROSSHATCHED.
In these paintings, Marius Martinussen has tightened up Jasper John's abstract expression and thus he has achieved an independent artistic expression.
Vilmantas Marcinkevicius
Exhibition view
Vilmantas, The woman who. Created 2009 at Atelje Larsen in Helsingborg
Vilmantas Marcinkevicius (1969). In 2009, Vilmantas produced four impressive four-colour aquatints at the leading intaglio printing house Atelier Larsen in Helsingborg. At the same time, he let 10 of each etching hand color. They immediately have the same figuration as the aquatints, but appear with very different overpaintings and expressions.