ANDERS BÜLOW
YONDER
May 3. - June 9.
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HENNINGSEN Gallery is pleased to announce Anders Bülow’s first solo show in the gallery.
The exhibition Yonder includes 6 works and continues Anders Bülow’s minimalism with works that, even though they comprise painted and mounted surfaces, oscillate in the interface between painting, sculpture and object.
In spite of their strict and immediate industrial finish, the 6 works in the exhibition are all hand-made and are the result of meticulous work and time consuming processes. A closer look reveals microscopic traces of production; colour nuances that shift and minimal spatial displacements; diminutive flaws that are in-corporated soberly in the works and function as subtle testimonials of their human origins. The works thus question their own execution while they at the same time strive to reach beyond human limitations.
The formal starting point for Anders Bülow may be minimalism and monochrome painting, but his pur-pose and result are very different. Minimalism for Anders Bülow is not an artistic goal predefined by the conventional categories of historical modernism, but instead a starting point; an uncompromising premise de-fined prior to the execution of the work and then adhered to consistently. In a similar way, the mono-chrome in Bülow’s works is not an artistic settling with abstraction and figuration, but a strongly reduced chromatic condition for examining the nuanced.
In his choices of colour, shape and materials Bülow seeks the relatively neutral in an attempt to eliminate all irrelevant meaning creating disturbances. He constructs the works from few, consequent rules and limi-tating principles created by aesthetic or mathematical principles. In consequence, a remaining frame is dis-tilled within which absolute freedom exists. This frame is the laboratory where Bülow observes how the work unfolds; how the relationship of the material with the strict guidelines results in minimal deviations, subtle changes, shifting nuances. Bülow established and accepts. The process has its own poetic course and invites a series of almost existential questions regarding the function and creation of the work of art.
Bülow’s focus is very much aimed at the process more that at a given goal. Or in other words of a poetic analogy: The goal is Yonder – a promised place that you may imagine, but that is neither here nor there; a place that can never be reached because it dissolves and moves when we approach it and becomes there or here. Keeping in mind that the work of art is an unapproachable aim more that an approachable goal or result, Bülow’s practice revolves around basic problems that concentrate on the relationship between col-our, surface, space and gravity.
Anders Bülow (b 1981) is educated from the Royal Danish Academy (2005-2011) and Akademie der Bildende Künst Wien (2009-10). He has previously shown his works at for example BKS Garage, Tom Christoffersen, Gallery Christina Wilson and at the graduation show 2011 at Kunsthal Nikolaj.
