Etage Projects is pleased to present Hard Bending. – A presentation of works by artists represented by the gallery, in combination with a series of display pieces created by Cristina Roman Diaz.
The works shown resonates with the bended shapes and tension of the display structures- Bended and softened hard materials, soft materials pulled and hardened.
Danish artist Ditte Gantriis presents a giant Wicker basket, FOS presents Saltworks, made from a chemical reaction containing oxygen, water and salt. Salt is created when the water evaporates the salt is crystallised creating a landscape – A natural phenomenon also known as salt ponds. Minjae Kim vases are made of textile hardened by fiberglass, Soft Baroque´s Diet Wood series is made by bending larch veneer.
The display pieces used throughout the presentation is made from 5 mm bend aluminium sheets, tensed to prefab concrete funda blocks.
Despite the apparant rigidity of some of these pieces, their modularity and dimensions create a certain flexibility in which some of them can be repurpused to fit other functions, con- figurations or purposes.
HARD BENDING was a series of pieces designed for the exhibition “Full of days” at Kunsthal Charlottenborg curated by South into North.
Go to artist page: Bahraini—Danish, Ditte Gantriis, FOS, Karl Monies, Minjae Kim, Soft Baroque, Sabine Marcelis
