Gether
Contemporary

New Positions Birk Bjørlo, Sif Itona Westerberg, Asger Dybvad Larsen, Christine Overvad Hansen & Jay Gard

21.0105.03.2022

On top of a busy year with major museum exhibitions, the gallery’s artists have once again been busy in the studio delivering new works for the upcoming exhibition New Positions. Five of the gallery’s represented artists will introduce new works based on mythological figures in aerated concrete, mythical creatures in bronze, burnt stoneware, and textiles, gold-framed paintings, stitched-up textile works and paintings on plywood poured over with epoxy. A hybrid of works that all challenge our perceptions and expectations of art as an object and phenomenon.

The exhibition shows Christine Overvad Hansen’s sculptural idiom unfolding in a new series of mythical sculptures modeled in burnt ceramic or cast in bronze. With a new series of stitched-up paintings, Asger Dybvad Larsen shows an exploratory approach to the processing of the traditional materials of painting and its art-historical ballast. In a new series of works, Norwegian painter Birk Bjørlo returns to the ‘O-series’, where he, in a free, emotionally charged painting process, creates paintings made of plywood, painted with thin layers of ink and oil, and sealed with a shiny epoxy or wax. German artist Jay Gard, who works in the intersection of art and design, will show a series of colorful, physical constructions which draw on elements from the Baroque mixed with Bauhaus’ aesthetics. With a basis in Greek mythology, Sif Itona Westerberg creates sculptural works in aerated concrete which contain a contrast between the raw industrial material and the refined craftsmanship, creating a poetic synergy between the soft and the monumental.

Jay Gard

New Positions - Installation View
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New Positions - Installation View

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New Positions - Installation View

Birk Bjørlo - New Positions - Installation View
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Birk Bjørlo - New Positions - Installation View

Birk Bjørlo, O.054, 2021, Ink, oil, pigment and epoxy on board, 122 x 80 x 3 cm
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Birk Bjørlo, O.054, 2021, Ink, oil, pigment and epoxy on board, 122 × 80 × 3 cm

Birk Bjørlo, O.055, 2021, Ink, oil, pigment and epoxy on board, 122 x 80 x 3 cm
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Birk Bjørlo, O.055, 2021, Ink, oil, pigment and epoxy on board, 122 × 80 × 3 cm

Birk Bjørlo, O.053, 2021, Ink, oil, pigment and epoxy on board, 122 x 80 x 3 cm
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Birk Bjørlo, O.053, 2021, Ink, oil, pigment and epoxy on board, 122 × 80 × 3 cm

Birk Bjørlo, O.065, 2021, Ink, oil, pigment and epoxy on board, 122 x 80 x 3 cm
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Birk Bjørlo, O.065, 2021, Ink, oil, pigment and epoxy on board, 122 × 80 × 3 cm

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New Positions - Installation View

Asger Dybvad Larsen, Untitled, 2021, Mixed media on canvas, 200 x 155 cm
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Asger Dybvad Larsen, Untitled, 2021, Mixed media on canvas, 200 × 155 cm

Christine Overvad Hansen, Homewrecker, 2021, stoneware, 8 x 13,8 x 8 cm
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Christine Overvad Hansen, Homewrecker, 2021, stoneware, 8 × 13,8 × 8 cm

Sif Itona Westerberg, Untitled, 2020, Aerated concrete and bolts, 60 x 35 x 6 cm
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Sif Itona Westerberg, Untitled, 2020, Aerated concrete and bolts, 60 × 35 × 6 cm

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New Positions - Installation View

Jay Gard, Venice, 2021, 173 x 160 x 7 cm
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Jay Gard, Venice, 2021, 173 × 160 × 7 cm

Jay Gard, Fresko, 2021, Plywood, acrylic, oil and frame 90 x 100 cm
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Jay Gard, Fresko, 2021, Plywood, acrylic, oil and frame 90 × 100 cm

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New Positions - Installation View

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New Positions - Installation View

Christine Overvad Hansen, Scrying mirror (II), 2021, Patinated bronze, 65 x 65 x 4 cm
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Christine Overvad Hansen, Scrying mirror (II), 2021, Patinated bronze, 65 × 65 × 4 cm

Christine Overvad Hansen, Superstring seamstress, 2021, patinated bronze, 56,5 x 36 x 31 cm
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Christine Overvad Hansen, Superstring seamstress, 2021, patinated bronze, 56,5 × 36 × 31 cm

Asger Dybvad Larsen, Untitled, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 200 x 180 cm
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Asger Dybvad Larsen, Untitled, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 200 × 180 cm

Asger Dybvad Larsen - New Positions - Installation view
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Asger Dybvad Larsen - New Positions - Installation view

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New Positions - Installation View

New Positions - Installation View
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New Positions - Installation View

Jay Gard, Cecily Mittenwalder Straße 9, Plywood, acrylic and oil, 62 x 45 cm.
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Jay Gard, Cecily Mittenwalder Straße 9, Plywood, acrylic and oil, 62 × 45 cm.

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