Grass Landscape
Details8
- No.
- 0070
- Date
- 19 Jan 2017
- Type
- Exhibition
- Place
- Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen (DK)
- Group show
- Wonderful World
- Thanks
- Bibi Saugman (curator)
- Resembles
- A Subjective History of Gdańsk
- Read as
- GREY 67%, BRIGHT, EVEN, DETAILED
Grass Landscape (2010), by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum, shown in Wonderful World at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, January 2017.
A wall painted with chlorophyll extracted from grass, and painted over again and again during the exhibition, so that the landscape picture keeps changing and thickening. The smell of grass reaches the room before the picture does. Nothing is depicted: the material is the landscape.
Wonderful World, curated by the gallery's director Bibi Saugman, took its title from the Louis Armstrong song and gathered Poul Gernes's offshore wind turbines, Per Kirkeby's five-panel masonite of 1976, Daniel Richter's coloured-pencil drawings of north-east Greenland, John Kørner's painting Polen, and works by Tue Greenfort, Roni Horn and Tom Molloy. The catalogue text sets the works beside the travel advertisements and the environmental conventions of the writer's own childhood.
