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MOTIVES FROM NORTH ITALY
By Anne Skole Overgaard
Kunsthal NORD
Station to Station
with The Exhibition Space Sydhavn Station
6 January - 4 February 2018
See
video documentation of the exhibition
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ANNE SKOLE OVERGAARD: MOTIVES FROM NORTH
ITALY
The Chinese's factory at the other side of the
road
Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 300 cm
2017
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"I live part of the time in Northern Italy. It's
in the country side, in a house that belonged to my boyfriend's
grandparents, and where we are now living. At the other side of
the road is the chinese's factory. I've been fascinated by the fence
along the road for a long time. One day, when I walked by, the sliding
door to the factory was partly open, but I still couldn't see what
they were doing in there, because of the fence and the hedge.
Probably they made clothes or shoes in the factory.
Sometimes a new group of young cinese came to work there. I think
they saved up money so they could buy a house when they returned
to China. We said hello to then when they also went for a walk on
the path behind the village.
Recently the authorities came and closed the factory.
The workers were there without permit and I think there was something
with tax as well. Now the factory is empty and the owner put it
up for sale, together with the big house where they lived and the
garden that always looked abandoned with giant trees."
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ANNE SKOLE OVERGAARD
The Chinese's factory at the other side of the road (detail)
Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 300 cm
2017
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Fence, Carrara
2 plakater i glichéprint, 120x80cm
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Sculptures, Marina di Massa
2 posters in glichéprint, 120x80cm
2017
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"Sometimes we go for a vacation in Marina di Massa.
The neighbour's garden is full of sculptures. Maybe they are for
sale, but they have been there a long time.
There are long rows of colourful umbrellas along the
beach and a bit down the coast there is big white holiday camp from
the 30's, right next to the ocean. It could house thousand children
and teenagers from the industrial city Torino, but now the holiday
camp is empty.
Carrara is close by, and here they quarried marble
in the mountains since the Roman Empire. In the beginning of the
16th century, Michelangelo was sent out from Firenze to construct
a new marble quarry a few kilometers from Carrara, so the city state
Firenze could quarry their own marble, without paying to Carrara.
There are several copies of Michelangelo's sculpture David in the
neighbour's garden.
As you leave the coast the holiday village gets mixed
with ordinary houses, kitchengardens and olivetrees, and inbetween,
the heavy marble industri with cranes and rows of marble blocks.
There are several abandoned factories, where some of them look like
they never finished the building."
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Sculptures, Marina di
Massa
2 posters in glichéprint, 120x80cm
2017 |
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Sculptures, Marina di Massa
2 posters in glichéprint, 120x80cm
2017 |
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The Chinese's factory
at the other side of the road
Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 300 cm
2017 |
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Ryparken
212 1.tv.