The following is a short short written in 2001. It might be a sketch(it is written on a a sheet in a sketch pad). Or it could be a first draught. I never did a second, but I find it quite amusing - both as a story and as a witness to who I am/was.
His life had changed, but his sunglasses hadn’t .
The same old Way Fares that had been the pinnacle
accessory and the protector of his coolness in the
early days, before he knew better,
before he met her.
And Dave Scanavino, the sly fox, got reviewed in Fartforurm.com. Yeah! Great cool awesome show it deserves more more more. Go Dave!
And other news Sam Wilson shows Forbes.com who is the boss!
V1 Gallery has taken all its artists to the Zoo Art Fair. If you are in London stop by and see works from my recent show at the gallery.
They can be found in booth F57 at the
Royal Academy of Arts
6 Burlington Gardens
London W1S 3EX
17-19 Oct 12-8 PM
20 Oct 12-5 PM
Klaus Von Nichtssagend is bringing Donna Chung, Ian Pedigo and Thomas Hallas Øvlisen to this years NADA art fair in Miami. It is coolest one there, and I for one am super excited.
NADA ART FAIR MIAMI
Klaus Von Nichtssagend
Donna is currently in Hamburg and she is coming to visit, YEAH.
My work at the V1 Gallery booth at this years Art Copenhagen.
While uprocking Shane had a go at my free do it yourself art suggestion. This is what he came up with:
This is what he said:
Thomas - Thanks for my new sculpture, I’m enjoying it very much!
[…], isn’t it always amazing the gap between thinking and doing? I mean I couldn’t have envisaged the questions that arose in making it, only in the doing can you find out…I guess you knew that though when you suggested it….
This is the post:
I got a glimpse at Bo Bjerggaaard newest exhibition of Per Kirkeby. He has made black 120×120 cm(4×4 feet) panels with his very rawest and cleanest expression. I saw oil paint, oil stick, chalk and sprayed paint. There is nothing new under the sun in the work, but I really liked it.
I don’t know why. I usually think that he is just an old dude that every Dane loves(or hates) and that he sells his stuff by reputation and reputation only. I have always loved his brick house sculptures. They are awaesome. Funny. Provocative. Walk-through-able. His abstract bronzes(also in the show) have always seemed a tad to simplistic and easy to me, but in this show they started growing on me and I actually like the bronze terds now. There is something about them that makes me think Josh Smith - and he is young and provocative, and if this show was made by a young contemporary artist it would be the shit, but guess what maybe it is the shit because it is made by a 70 year old artist.
I am not going to discriminate on age.
Anyway Bo told me about a secret stash of ad hoc/randon/broken off’s that Per had adorned and they seemed like the even more bombing shit. Can’t wait to see those in the open.
Oh, by the way. Happy Birthday Per.
Artist talk at V1 gallery.
Saturday September 6th from 12-12.45 pm-
On behalf of Shane Bradford and myself I will run through the Uprock process.
I will highlight our many coinciding thoughts and show the almost opposite manifestation in our production. We had a very enriching correspondence and the exhibition wouldn’t have been the same with out it. Neither would Shane, V1 nor I.
Copenhagen Contemporary program(direct link)
See you there
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Klaus Von Nichssagend used my work as part of their application to this years NADA Art Fair in Miami. It made me really proud and I am now happy to be showing new works in December. Rob Hult just told me that they got accepted.
I was driving along the coast north of Copenhagen and I got this feeling of road tripping, so I took these photos pretending to be on a road trip snapping through the window with my camera phone.
It struck me how the trees looked like palms and that it was very hard to decipher the location.
Picture from Rob Hult of Klaus Von NIchtssagend flickr site
