The Beast, 2006 Watercolour, pencil, ink 26 x 38.5 cm Julie Nord Elsewhere MOGADISHNI CPH is proud to present the solo exhibition "Elsewhere" by Danish artist Julie Nord. The exhibition consists of entirely new works, partly Nord's well-known, accurately composed and detailed black/white drawings in great scale, partly a number of coloured works, which are done more "loosely" with watercolour. On top of this are a number of works, which place themselves between the precise and the casual, the spontaneous and the constructed, the drawn and the painted. Finally a black/white flash film with "transformation drawings" in movement will be presented. The works can be experienced individually but can also be seen in continuation of each other as condensations of absurd and pent-up stories filled with omens and premonitions. Certain characters, patterns or background details are repeated - with smaller modifications - in each drawing and in this way the works seem to merge into one another. In total the drawings constitute a massive "else-where" - "populated" by Dalmatatian-girls, Siamese robins, deformed silhouette children, black smiley flowers, melted helicopters and blue squirrels. The real space, with which we are familiar, is being erased and replaced by a dreamy universe with its own sense of logic and deep roots in the mysterious "twilight zone" between the innocent play of childhood and the seriousness of adulthood. In Nord's universe the well known and the un-known is turned upside down and suddenly single-family houses, flowers, garden birds, smoke from chimneys and light bulbs appear grotesque and menacing. Nord makes no secret of the fact that her basis of inspiration comes from film stills and horror movies. In her works the outrageous, the dystopic and the alarming are with complete naturalness merged into the well-known, the beautiful and the aesthetic. Julie Nord also gets her inspiration from the universe of Victorian children's books in which gloom and anxiety are amalgamated. This idiom is, however, updated by Julie Nord who adds "elements" from contemporary culture such as gothic horror, cartoon aesthetics, tattoo art and abstract Rorschach patterns. In the works by Julie Nord different worlds collide in a sweet iconography spiced up with the brutal and the humorous. Exhibition: September 14 - October 21, 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Fri 11am - 4pm, Sat 12am - 3pm MOGADISHNI CPH Carl Jacobsens Vej 16, entrance 6, floor 3 DK-2500 Valby Telephone +45 32 54 35 35 Fax +45 32 54 35 45 Email mail@mogadishni.com www.mogadishni.com |
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