Landscape

LANDSCAPE

Anne Skole Overgaard, Bodil Nielsen, Johannes Sivertsen, Elsebeth Norrie and Rasmus Nellemann

Landscape painting in a broad sense is the frame of the exhibition, where different generations are represented.

Photos of Irrigation Channel by Anne Skole Overgaard

JOHANNES SIVERTSEN: SUNRISE ODENSE

The painting Sunrise Odense by Johannes Sivertsen, shows a sunrise and in the distance you see the blue silhouette of the blocks of flats in Vollsmose in Odense. Is the dawn a symbol of the future, of hope rising in the horizon, as in an old socialist song? The birds might even symbolize freedom. The painting seems quiet and ambiguous, though. Another painting shows a model of the appartment block, Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusiers, build in Marseille at a time when there was still confidence in a beautiful, functionalist future with free and equal residents.

JOHANNES SIVERTSEN: MODEL

Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm, 2016

RASMUS NELLEMANN: CRANE AND SCAFFOLDING

Etching, 45,5 x 50,5 cm, 1975

The industrial landscape was the focal point of the graphic artist Rasmus Nelleman (1923-2004). He captured the dirty industrial production of the past in beautiful, abstracted compositions of lines and surfaces. His etchings of industrial buildings from the '50s and' 60s might even evoke a certain nostalgia today, where the foundry at Teglholmen and the coal silos at Islands Brygge have been replaced by clean, architectural cityscapes of exclusive apartments.

RASMUS NELLEMANN: WIRES

Etchings, 25 x 25 cm, 1980

RASMUS NELLEMANN: COAL SILO WITH STAIRS

Etching, 36,6 x 24 cm, 1958

RASMUS NELLEMANN: COAL SILO

Etching, 37 x 25 cm, 1958

RASMUS NELLEMANN: COAL SILO WITH THE NUMBER 3

Etching, 38 x 30 cm, 1959

RASMUS NELLEMANN: COAL SILO

Etching, 41,5 x 29,5 cm, 1959

BODIL NIELSEN: UNTITLED (middle)

Acrylic on canvas, 240 x 170 cm, 2015

Bodil Nielsen's paintings has no connection to Landscape at the first glance, but maybe you face her large paintings, in a similar way as you face a landscape. She exhibits a painting in large format, which does not represent a landscape in another place - but the painting itself has a strong presence in the exhibition space. A dense texture emerges when one experiences the painting at a close range and the transparent and saturated fields of color give a visual depth. In relation to the surrounding space the painting articulates the viewer's experience of being, and of movement through the space.

BODIL NIELSEN: UNTITLED (detail)

Acrylic on canvas, 240 x 170 cm, 2015

ELSEBETH NORRIE:

DECEMBER SUNSET, SEPTEMBER SALT MARSH, YELLOW DECEMBER, FROZEN DUNE LANDSCAPE, GROWTHS IN THE TWILIGHT, AUTUMN REDEPLOYMENTS AND TURBULENT SEA

6 watercolors, 30 x 40 cm each.

Elsebeth Norrie's landscape watercolors are so detailed and precise that they seem unreal or over-real. Each sprig and straw is painted one by one, making realism merging into an ornament of plants. Elsebeth's exceptional watercolors show outer landscapes that become mental images. They show the beauty and impermanence in and around us.