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FOUR SOLOS IN DENMARK

2024

SOUND OF SILENCE

GALLERI NYBRO

SANKT PEDERS STRÆDE 21

COPENHAGEN

26 JANUARY TO 4 FEBRUARY 2024

OPEN EVERY DAY

12 – 18

AND BY APPOINTMENT

OPENING RECEPTION 25 JANUARY 16-20

“It’s a great pleasure to present Ege Arp-Hansen’s first solo exhibition in our beautiful, new premises in Sankt Peders Stræde 21, in the very heart of the old town in Copenhagen. It’s his fourth solo with the gallery.

“sound of silence” focuses on Ege Arp-Hansens unique folded paintings, “ripples”, a group of work he’s been developing and working with over the past 10 years. 30 works will be shown, primarily brand new from two series created within the past year.

He’s deeply fascinated by all the colours of the rainbow and also uses them here, but the individual works are often monochromatic, regularly with the application of only one pigment.

The canvas, its structure and other physical qualities are always an integrated part of his paintings expression. Most clearly in these folded works, where the canvas is explored as a manipulatable material, cloth, matter, which is folded and worked rhythmically into something which reminds many people of the surface of water.

The stretchers profile, form and spatial presence under the canvas is an essential part of the work, not just a hidden necessity. They’re sourced and constructed with great care, before the finished pieces of canvas are mounted around them.

The works hereby moves into a three dimensional space, somewhere between painting and sculpture.

Their expression change radically according to the light, its intensity, quality and the angle from which you look. When you move, you experience how colour, patterns, and glistening reflections arise, change, disappear and new constellations emerge. There is no golden cut. The centre is everywhere. The works seem to exist in constant transformation, but still remain as they were created. They’re all untitled, and thereby don’t lead- or mislead the spectator in relation to an interpretation. In Ege Arp-Hansen’s art choices and possibilities are offered, not one dimensional answers.

Ege Arp-Hansen is fascinated by the small in the large and the immense in the minute, by subtle nuances, modulations and rhythms evenly distributed over the whole surface of the canvas, moving from the totally soft, whispering, over the sizzling, to the very sensual. He’s working to attain an inherent, meditative peace and balance, also in the most intense and colour-packed works.

This peace and balance is at the very heart of his working process. It’s here he finds his inspiration. Going about his daily work in the studio between the forest and the sea. To the sound of silence…

GALLERI KINGO

KINGOSVEJ 1A

TAASTRUP

4 APRIL TO 30 APRIL 2024

OPEN

TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 13-16

SUNDAYS 7 and 28 APRIL 13-16

OPENING RECEPTION

4 APRIL 18-20

& JUULAGER

VEDBÆK STATIONSVEJ 18

VEDBÆK

6 JUNE TO MID SEPTEMBER 2024

OPEN

TUESDAY TO THURSDAY 9-17.30

FRIDAY 9-18

SATURDAY 8-13

SUNDAY AND MONDAY CLOSED

KUNSTVINDUET

HAVNEHOLMEN 80

COPENHAGEN V

30 JUNE TO 28 AUGUST 2024

OPEN

24/7

OPENING RECEPTION

30 JUNE 15-17

Ole Schwander, curator of Kunstvinduet (the Art Window), writes:

THE ARTIST WHO FOLDS THE CANVAS TO LIFE

With an innovative approach that blends traditional painting techniques with sculptural measures, Ege Arp-Hansen manages to create works that play with light and shadow. He starts the work like any other painter with a blank canvas. But what sets him apart from others is the transformative process that follows the painting process. He selects few pigments for each canvas, often only one that, in dilutions of varying degrees, is applied in many transparent layers.

When the painting is complete, he embarks on a careful folding of the canvas, which is done to highlight certain elements of the painted image and create a depth, which it otherwise would be impossible to achieve on a flat and even surface. This technique creates a relief effect where parts of the painting emerge while others step back. Light and shadow play on the folded surfaces, giving the work a dynamic and vibrant character.

In the works there is a balance between the predictable and the spontaneous, where planning meets artistic intuition. It is this duality that makes the works so attractive and invites the spectator to reflect on the many dimensions of reality and our way of experiencing the world. At a time when art is constantly challenging and reinventing itself, Ege’s works stand as a significant example of how traditional media can be transformed and given new life through innovative techniques. By forming folds in the canvas, he not only creates a visually impressive work, but also a deeper connection between art, light, shadow and shape – a tribute to both the simple and the complex in art.

SOLO IN DENMARK

2023

FOREVER AND A DAY

GALLERI NYBRO

NYBROGADE 30

COPENHAGEN

24 FEBRUARY TO 5 MARCH 2023

OPEN EVERY DAY

12 – 18

DESIGN SHANGHAI

WITH YUDIAN ART

8 – 11 JUNE 2023

I will be participating in Design Shanghai from 8 – 11 June 2023 through my representative for China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Yudian Art. They will exhibit “at the end of the universe – right here” 145 x 115 cm (seen below) from 2018. With about 70.000 visitors this fair is concidered one of the most important design fairs in Asia in witch many art galleries also participate.

GROUP SHOW

UFT – UFT – UFT – UFT

UDSTILLINGSSTED FOR TEKSTIL

COPENHAGEN

29 JULY – 2 SEPTEMBER 2023

UFT – UFT – UFT – UFT handler om det upåagtede allestedsnærværende tekstil og remedierne
i vores omgivelser, det oversete, det brugte, det anonyme, det tekniske, det verbale, det unavngivne, det undselige tekstil – Og der er rigtig meget af det.

Stofbæreposer i varmestuen med firmaprint som erstatning for plastikposer.
Spørgsmålet er, om det er den rette vej rent miljømæssigt?

Anette Jensen

Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm

Væveværkstedet 52D

Metha Stuart Wallace

Karina Nielsen Rios

Ege Arp-Hansen

Lisbeth Nielsen Lyrstrand

Anders Bonnesen

Kvadrat

Annette Juel

Ane Henriksen

Marianne Just

Julie Behaegel

Udstillingens stol: Jørgen Carlo Larsen

Udstillingens vase: Bettina Schori

Udstillingens gæstehåndklæde: Væveskolen i Greve

Udstillingens bøllehat: Blå Form

Udstillingens grafik: Alma Gade

GROUP SHOW

ANNABORG ART CENTRE

HILLEROD, DK

17 AUGUST TO 10 SEPTEMBER 2023

THURSDAY TO SUNDAY 12 – 16

OPEN DOORS AT 100 ARTISTS IN NORTH ZEALAND

SATURDAY 2 AND SUNDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2023

EVERY DAY 11 – 17

PAST 2022 SELECTED

EXHIBITION IN CHINA

YUDIAN ART GALLERY

HANGZHOU

“INFINITY ETERNITY”

PRESENTING 4 ARTISTS

26 APRIL TO 30 JUNE 2022

(extended)

I’m very happy to announce that my new representative for China is Yudian Art Gallery in Hangzhou, not far from Shanghai.

Capital during the Southern Song Dynasty, then and now one of the world’s most prosperous and sophisticated cities. Since ancient times home to numerous philosophers, artists and men of literature who were attracted to and inspired by the beauty of its mythic West Lake.

Yudian Art, with galleries in downtown and in the brand new Tian Muli Centre designed by Renso Piano, who’s probably most famous for having co-designed Centre Pompidou in Paris, will from now on be my exclusive representative in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

SHENZHEN CREATIVE WEEK

WITH YUDIAN GALLERY

25 – 28 JULY 2022

I will be participating in Shenzhen Creative Week from 25 – 28 July 2022 through my representative for China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Yudian Gallery, with the painting above: “foundation of everything and nothing”, measuring 145 cm x 115 cm.

Shenzhen, immediate neighbour to Hong Kong, is with about 17 million inhabitants the fourth largest city in China.

GROUP SHOW

IN

DENMARK

MARIENLYST CASTLE

ELSINORE

27 AUGUST TO 11 SEPTEMBER 2022

EVERY DAY 12 – 17

OPEN DOORS AT 100 ARTISTS IN NORTH ZEALAND

SATURDAY 3 AND SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2022

EVERY DAY 11 – 17

ART TALK

KULTURSTATIONEN

HUMLEBÆK

INFINITY

ETERNITY

BEGINNING

END

MEET THE VICAR AND THE ARTIST

27 OCTOBER 2022

PAST SOLOS IN DENMARK 2022

GALLERI NYBRO

NYBROGADE 30

COPENHAGEN

1 APRIL TO 10 APRIL 2022

OPEN EVERY DAY

12 – 18

LIBRARY EXHIBITION HALL

HUMLEBÆK

5 MARCH TO 19 MARCH 2022

PAST 2021 SELECTED

GROUP SHOW

ANNABORG ART CENTRE

HILLEROD, DK

21 OCTOBER TO 21 NOVEMBER 2021

THURSDAY TO SUNDAY 12 – 16

SOLO EXHIBITION IN COPENHAGEN

GALLERI NYBRO

30 NYBROGADE, 1203 COPENHAGEN

untitled

(so far)

TUESDAY 27 JULY 2021 – SUNDAY 22 AUGUST 2021

OPEN TUESDAY TO SUNDAY 12 – 17

FRIDAY 12 – 20

AND BY APPOINTMENT

IN COPENHAGEN’S CULTURAL CENTER BY FREDERIKSHOLM KANAL, CHRISTIANSBORG PALACE AND THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.

FOUR SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITIONS IN DENMARK IN 2020 – TWO OF THEM SOLOS:

KULTURSTATIONEN

IN HUMLEBÆK

CLOSE TO LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

origin

FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2020 THROUGH SUNDAY 6 DECEMBER 2020

Humlebæk, Denmark at the newly opened exhibition space at KulturStationen. This solo exhibition, about 36 works, focuses on canvas format 145 x 115 x 3 cm as opposed to the smaller works shown earlier in 2020 at Galleri Nybro in Copenhagen.

Artist Talks and other arrangements scheduled on selected dates.

Interesting review of this 3 month solo exhibition in “KunstAvisen” No. 9 October/November 2020 (i.e. “The Art Magazine”, the oldest Danish art magazine)

Text translated from Danish, original further down

“origin” – Ege Arp-Hansen solo exhibition at KulturStationen, Humlebæk, Denmark

By Lis Engel

If the experience of the show should be described with two words they could be Silence and Beauty. Moving into this sublime exhibition is quite an extraordinary experience which I warmly recommend.

ABSTRACT PAINTING

Ege Arp-Hansen is an abstract painter who art historically can be seen in continuation of Minimalism, but with his totally own way of exploring and unfolding the possibilities of modern abstract painting, possessing an intense curiosity for colour and media. He creates a host of sublime qualities, which are often absent in contemporary painting. What qualities then characterize the exhibition?

This can’t be answered conclusively, but there is an intensity and sensuality in the way Ege Arp-Hansen unfolds his serial work. He often works in series, often monochromatically, and at the same time with a sensitivity for subtle nuances and rhythms, which can be seen both in the modulation of colour and in the tactility of colour as quality and composition.

THE NUMINOUS AND THE EROTIC

At times paintings hover in a series of transparent apparitions, for instance unfolded in the completely light wall, where you are invited to disappear into the white light and the delicately modulated pastel tones from cool to warm in a tender transformation of light.

Other pictures investigate intensively the tactile and can reinforce the experience of rhythm as a physical quality. This can for instance be seen in the folded paintings and their deep sense of rhythm and movement through folding, and also in works with more pastose application of colour. Here the colour scale span from intense, strong reds, rose and apricot, through metallic, dark and violet in different smaller series and solo works. These are works which might open up the possibility of experiencing the fantastic, the erotic and at the same time voluptuous and totally transgressive. An enormous span and at the same time with a wonderful wholeness and coherence.

Perhaps the qualities can be described as limitless, the eternal, without beginning and end, but also filled with a sensuality and intensity, creating a sensation of bliss, of the wonderful.

TOTAL INSTALLATION

The exhibition itself, experienced as a whole in the raw space, is totally unique in the way it’s succeeded to create a symphony of colour, rhythm, which transcends the individual work, into a totality, where the serially hung paintings create gentle shifts and layers of meaning, which at the same time are totally abstract, but also tuned – like visual music. It is exiting to immerse oneself and experience the span, which goes from the completely gentle, whispering, to intensely passionate – not as qualities, which are separate, but as qualities which are present in the individual work and in the whole as an omnipresent tone.

Ege Arp-Hansen origin Review in KunstAvisen 2020

GALLERI NINA SAMPSON

42B DAG HAMMARSKJÖLDS ALLÉ

2100 COPENHAGEN Ø

CLOSE TO THE AMERICAN EMBASSY

EXHIBITION OF 5 WORKS

OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER

Painting by Ege Arp-Hansen at the Nina Sampson Gallery in Copenhagen

GALLERI NYBRO

30 NYBROGADE, 1203 COPENHAGEN

X-MAS GROUP SHOW

TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER 2020 – SUNDAY 20 DECEMBER 2020

OPEN EVERY DAY INCL. SUNDAY

13 – 17

IN COPENHAGEN’S CULTURAL CENTER BY FREDERIKSHOLM KANAL, CHRISTIANSBORG PALACE AND THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.

GALLERI NYBRO

30 NYBROGADE, 1203 COPENHAGEN

from here to nowhere

FRIDAY 17 JULY 2020 – SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2020

OPEN EVERY DAY INCL. SUNDAY

10 – 17

IN COPENHAGEN’S CULTURAL CENTER BY FREDERIKSHOLM KANAL, CHRISTIANSBORG PALACE AND THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.

"from here to nowhere" and "drifting through" paintings by Arp-Hansen — “from here to nowhere” and “drifting” by Ege Arp-Hansen

I paint.

Artistically connected with the ancient ink tradition of East Asia, some of my deepest roots are found in it’s calligraphy and landscape painting.

As opposed to ink on silk or paper, I use acrylics on canvas, linen or cotton. And I paint in all the colours of the rainbow, but often use only one, two or three pigments in any given work.

Monochromes fascinate me. Unfolding each colour, each pigment, to its full potential.

Born into a family of artists I painted my first painting at 4 or 5 years old, but later focused on writing. I wrote among other things drama for the theatre, where I was fortunate to receive grants from the Danish Arts Foundation, the Danish Literature Council and the Danish Theatre Council.

In the wordless universe of painting however I might get closer to something I find essential.

I work with my relation to, and inevitably lacking logical understanding of something as airy, intangible, yet always present, as infinity, eternity, soul, spirit, consciousness…

Or rather: Little by little I realised this is what I was doing.

The urge to work with colours, paint, came first. Theory followed later. Not the other way around.

Eternity… the infinite… has always fascinated me profoundly… and I’ve asked myself the wonderful questions:

What is eternity? Where does it come from? Can it arise from nothing? What is nothing? What is something? What was before something? Was there something before nothing? Alongside nothing? What is consciousness? What is spirit?

My paintings are optimistic attempts at finding a poetic balance between matter and spirit, a kind of basic research into approaching some kind of answer to these fantastic, in all eternity unanswerable questions about the unapproachable, inexplicable, inexpressible, incomprehensible, indescribable, endless, eternal…

But first… and last… colour by colour… canvas by canvas… in the course of 25 to 100 hours or more, I create works where it’s imperative for me to convey the ethereal play of colour, light and darkness, to prepare a seedbed for precisely that unique experience the observer or observers have individually or collectively at the moment they see the painting.

An experience which probably has just as much to do with the observers own inner life and way of percieving as the work itself…

"forever and a day" by Ege Arp-Hansen — “forever and a day” by Ege Arp-Hansen as seen at KulturStationen 2020.

My studio is located in Humlebæk, Denmark and I recive individual visitors by appointment. It’s a nice walk from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, one of Europes great modern art institutions, beautifully situated on the coast 35 km north of Copenhagen and always worth a visit.

Paintings are available at the studio and from exhibitions. Prepaid international consignments are also welcome. With several shows a year I’m represented at Galleri Nybro (est. 1989) situated in Copenhagens Historic Centre close to Copenhagen Cathedral. I’m also a member of “Kunstrunden Nordsjælland” (Art Circle North Zealand) with yearly exhibitions and artists studio visits in North Zealand, just north of Copenhagen.

Representative for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan is Yudian Art in Hangzhou.

CONTACT: If you have any inquiries about visits, prices etc. please don’t hesitate to call my studio in Humlebaek at (+45) 49190709 or mail email hidden; JavaScript is required. If you get the answering service please remember to leave your name and phone number. You’re also welcome to visit my Instagram.