Patricia Low Contemporary is pleased to host Andersens Wohnung for a collaborative exhibition titled ROOMING IN!
Showcasing works by twelve international artists – Jesper Dalgaard, FOS (Thomas Poulsen), Thilo Heinzmann, Andreas Hofer, John Kørner, Tal R, Anselm Reyle, Kirstine Roepstorff, Tomas Saraceno, Katja Strunz, Evren Tekinoktay, and Thomas Zipp – this group exhibition offers a provocative and diverse exploration of utopian themes through works which innovatively engage with formalism and narrative.
Jesper Dalgaard’s sculptures and installations pose fantastical suggestive narratives through their playful aesthetics. Using the codes of formalism as a departure point into science fiction, his works elaborate on their devices of making to draw parallels between objects, meaning and the artist’s role as cultural producer.
Describing his work as ‘social design’, FOS/Thomas Poulsen’s practice bridges art, design, and architecture to recontextualise and critique public space. His works are humorous and provocative investigations into the relationships between information, form, and expectation, subverting the codes by which cultural transaction is experienced and understood.
Thilo Heinzmann’s minimal compositions are flamboyantly punctilious. Made from media as diverse as glass, rock crystal, cairngorm, and aluminium, his paintings exude polished luxury, setting aesthetic connoisseurship as a fetishisation of material substance and visual rectitude.
Influenced by comic books, silver screen era films and science fiction, Andreas Hofer draws from the symbols of power embedded within popular culture to contrive alternative mythologies that entwine fact and fiction in works that are equally heroic and bereft.
John Kørner’s paintings articulate sub-language narratives. Combining recognisable motifs with lusciously abstract gestures, his works evolve as evocative surrealist tableaux, where images are construed as ‘problems’ to be indulged, relished, and satisfied through the illusive physicality of their construction.
Guided by obsessive self-imposed rules such as restrictive palette, compositional format, and recurring motifs, Tal R develops a deceptively rigorous painterly language; his immediately recognisable faux-naif style makes formalism look effortless. Taking his subjects from everyday life, Tal R converts the banal to the utterly extraordinary, infusing his work with a sense of magic and optimism.
