FREEZE

Lise Blomberg Andersen
Trine Boesen
Tiina Ketara
Julie Nord

Opening: June 3, 2004  6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
June 3 - July 31, 2004

The new space for contemporary art Agenzia04 starts his activity in a re-styled warehouse located in Bologna on June 3, 2004. It profiles itself as an international exhibition space with the ambition to present projects dedicated to young artists emerging on international market but not yet known by Italian public and collectors.
The first project will be dedicated to North Europe and other exhibitions on schedule will focus on young international contemporary art from Europe, China, Japan, United States.
Agenzia04 is situated in the most significant contemporary art area in Bologna near the new “Manifattura delle Arti” where the art scene seems to be characterized by a novel activity among Modern Art Gallery, DAMS Faculty, Cinematheque, new private galleries.
Conceiving its role both as operational base for contemporary art projects and exhibiting space, the aim of Agenzia04 is to function as a mediator between artists and collectors, critics, institutions, other spaces, press, ... creating some links and a network for communicating and distributing art. Every project will be of long duration so as to be communicated and maybe have a follow up on further spaces.

The opening group exhibition Freeze will present the work of four Scandinavian artists, three from Denmark and one from Finland, for the first time shown on an Italian space.
Lise Blomberg Andersen, Trine Boesen and Julie Nord work on paintings and drawings; Tiina Ketara works with installation. All these artists’ research is impressive both for deepness and visual effects. They have gained international recognition and have been shown in galleries, museums and art biennials. They also are represented in important private and public collections.
This exhibition investigates on the concept of nature and a sense of a return to myths and child tales on young contemporary research, often in connection with strong psychological implications.
Beyond a sugary innocence surrounding the work of these artists, a power not yet revealed is hidden. It seems they would like to emerge from obsessive childhood phantoms, images from the heart that emotionally involve us.
It is a chilling sensation, a frozen atmosphere which the viewer is projected in. It refers to a northern perception between pureness and ambiguity that fascinates and arouse our curiosity at a time.

LISE BLOMBERG ANDERSEN
She was born on 1971 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she lives and works. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen and had personal and group exhibitions in Denmark.
Between dream and reality, her work evokes an emblematic nature where an apparent lightness hides painful psychological situations. Emblematic romantic scenarios reveal, at a deeper view, some strange elements exceeding from a natural logic. Landscapes become somehow post apocalyptic scenes or psychological projections that attract and disturb the viewer.

TRINE BOESEN
She was born on 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she lives and works. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen and at the Academy of Fine Arts of Aarhus. She had personal and group exhibitions in Denmark and Germany. Her work is represented in public collections.
The work of T.B. is a personal elaboration on materials from magazines, books, photos, films. The close-up main characters and the non-figurative background are arranged in relation to each other giving to the surface dynamism and strength. The variety of signs create a fantasy side world that opens to the spectator a confused sense of anguish and abandon.

TIINA KETARA
She was born on 1965 in Ylivieska, Finland, she lives and works between Helsinki and Paris. She studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts of Paris, at the Fine Arts Academy of Finland of Helsinki and the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques of Paris. She had personal and group exhibitions in Finland, France, Denmark, Great Britain and Holland. Her work is represented in public collections.
Her work consists of glass or plastic colored beads installations hanged in the air tied to nylon lines. The beads assume some different colors and reflect lights creating mental and spiritual images towards a sense of infinity.

JULIE NORD
She was born on 1970 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she lives and works. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen. She had personal and group exhibitions in Denmark and Turkey. She have gained international recognition and her work is represented in public collections.
The remarkable and emblematic universe on J.N. drawings is hard to forget. She invites us into a both delicate and brutal world of fairy tails and northern myths, but something unexpected is always coming out. The progression of the narration is constantly interrupted because there is no beginning and no end in the mental landscapes of J.N.

The artists will be present at the opening

Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday 3 – 7 pm or by appointment

For further information please contact Giulia Allegri ph +39 333 3781246 e-mail gallegri@agenzia04.com

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