Ilsands Brygge hosted a double opening of a Chris Johansen curated show at Nicolai wallener and his wife Jo Jackson at Nils Stærk.
Jo made two very fine projections. Two 8 mm projectors - all white with plaques reading edition of 3 - showing her very fine ink animations were the main attraction of the show. And very fine indeed. The drawings from the animations were hung throughout the gallery as the rest of the show. Unfortunately they took up too much space and overpowered the elegant films.
I think the drawings were nice, eventhough I got bit distracted by the obvious brush marks in the black backgrounds. These marks were not visible when translated to 8 mm film. So it seemed allright for the purpose of the film, but as drawings it made it look half ass. The drawings appeared as souvenirs of the film, which is fine, but they took up much more space than the projections and that threw the overall experience of the show a little bit. Maybe if the projections had been in the back room and the gallery had been used as a corridor with the drawings leading up to the projections it could have worked a little better, but I don’t even know if there is room back there.
Jo is such a nice girl though and I can’t wait to meet up with her in Miami.
After that we jumped straight to Wallners space, and Tom Greenwood was sitting at the red table selling one-off prints from a recent cd cover production. I grabbed one for my wife - 250,- DkKr awesome. Best part of the show. Chris J did a drawing of Jo tatoo that I really liked, and tought was cute. His paintings were really funny and eventhough he left out a word somewhere it got the message thru. Dash had some C-prints, a set of two pinned to the wall - the top one I liked, but the bottom one threw me a bit. I am way more into has book stacks. The show in general was nice and the opening had good vibes. We went to the afterparty, to late for the food, but caught some of the DJ-ing after we had had a couple of drinks and some Dom at JP Brask’s place.
