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SCULPTURE ODENSE 14
Still Waters Run Deep 

June 21–September 21, 2014

Contemporary art in the public space of Odense, Denmark

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www.skulpturodense.dk

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SCULPTURE ODENSE 14 has the tagline Still Waters Run Deep. Danish and international artists have been invited to exhibit both in inner-city Odense and its green spaces, thereby creating a route through different times, moods and locations.

Through time the city of Odense has been shaped by cultural changes and every view, every square and every street contain several historical, spatial and human dimensions. Still Waters Run Deep takes the shapes of the city, where immaterial values and moods mix with specific experiences, as its starting point. Traces, feelings, forgotten times, dramas and perceptions suddenly stand out when the sculptures make their entry in Odense.

The exhibition will explore the interaction between the facades and the depths of the city. It will use Odense as a sculptural space where passages are like portals between past and future: the sculptures vary from modernist explorations of reflections, spaces and material to contemporary social and psychological experiments which excavate our perception of reality. Most of the new commissioned works explore objects and places as cultural deposits representing both individual and collective worlds.

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SCULPTURE ODENSE presents 20 Danish and international artists / artist collectives: Nina Beier (DK), David Douard (FR), Tiril Hasselknippe (NO), Nanna Rützou Abell (DK), SUPERFLEX (DK), Theis Wendt (DK), Gabriel Kuri (MEX), Simon Fujiwara (UK), Jette Hye Jin Mortensen (DK), Tue Greenfort (DK), Annesofie Sandal (DK), Jiri Kovanda (CZ), Søren Cip Nielsen (DK), FOS (DK), Mikkel Carl (DK), A KASSEN (DK), Ib Agger (DK), Mathias & Mathias (DK) and students from The Funen Art Academy.

The exhibition is curated by Charlotte Sprogøe.

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Tiril Hasselknippe´s staircase is both the stairway to Heaven, the fitness stairclimber in the local gym and the longing and ambition of the Tower of Babel. The drive towards a climax is the theme of many of her semi-abstract works. The basic structures are visible in her sculptures: the staircase, the car, the surf board, are shaped like the essence of the objects – it is for instance the toughness of the car which is in focus in the car series Year of Car and the surf board work Swim Good channels weightlessness.
Inspired by the minimalism of the American West Coast, where the synthetic and the sublime is combined in abstract aesthetics, the artist creates a kind of formal science fiction.
Hasselknippe works with fiction. She has created Stairs for Still Waters Run Deep and the space just outside Magasin´s back entrance. She has been inspired by the sculptural and emotional qualities of the surroundings and not the actual history of the place.
The presence of the staircase in the run-down surroundings seems almost brutal, like materialised feelings. Both architecture and poetry are present in Hasselknippe´s works where mythology and structure become one. In this place she has sensed an atmosphere and a kind of sensibility, which corresponds with her own sense of form.