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Marie Birkedal
Mark
M a r i e  B i r k e d a l
Mark


Edition 1
OVERVIEW2026 ++

  1. Don’t Play Cards with Satan (for Daniel Johnston)
  2. Blueprints Inside
  3. Broken Glass and Kindness
  4. Nobility Game in Pink
  5. Winstons and violet dawns
  6. That day at the playground (for Lucia Berlin)
  7. Black Dahlia for Carolee Schneemann
  8. Dry Formalism Infused with Otherworldly Interdimensional Portals (for John McCracken)
  9. American Poem (For John Wieners)
  10. Lichtenberg
  11. Monochrome for W
  12. Artist Statement 
  13. Cv
  14. Contact
  15. Studio right now
  16. You & me / Volume 02
  17. Pure Abstraction
  18. Ist
  19. unterm Lederhimmel


Edition 2
ARCHIVE/INDEX202X ++

  1. Index
  2. Stranger Things
  3. Hard Earned Innocence
  4. ︎2010
  5. ︎2021
  6. Shefolk 2016
  7. Floor Presents


Notes —
Info
  1. Utilizing Expendable Materials to Create Works of Formal Pristine Beauty
  2. alchemist noun
    al·che·mist |  ˈal-kə-mist
    Alchemist: Someone Who Transforms Things for the Better
    The long route to English for alchemist began with the Greek word chēmeia, which probably came from the word chyma (“fluid”), derived from the verb chein, meaning “to pour.” It then passed to Arabic, which added its definite article al- (“the”) to the Greek root. The word then passed from Latin to French before coming to English. Some other words derived from Arabic also retain the al- in English, such as algebra, algorithm, and alcohol; in fact, the transformative liquid that was constantly being sought through experimentation by alchemists is another word with the Arabic al- prefix elixir.
Mark

Hard Earned Innocence


“Let everything that's been planned come true.
Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions.
Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy,
but just the friction between their souls and the outside world.
And most important, let them believe in themselves.
Let them be helpless like children,
because weakness is a great thing,
and strength is nothing.
When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible.
When he dies, he is hard and insensitive.
When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant.
But when it's dry and hard, it dies.
Hardness and strength are death's companions.
Pliancy and weakness
are expressions of the freshness of being.
Because what has hardened will never win.”

– Andrei Tarkovsky (The Stalker)


Innocence the Hard Way, falshe on prepared paper, 40 x 31 cm
Wrybill Marie II, watercolor on prepared paper, 90 x 69 cm

The exhibition consists of eight paper-works that have an apparent fragility but at the same time a very tangible presence. They are delicate, textured pieces made from prepared paper, laid in color baths, rinsed off, and painted again. The contrast between the fragile nature of the works and their raw, almost brutal energy creates a mesmerizing tension. The pieces are process-based, made in an interaction between the intuitive and rigorous methods. There is a fixed and set-up color pallete from the outset. So, M.B. only works partially instinctively; the beginning of her process is wordless and unconscious, but the conscious formal considerations come into the process, and eventually, language enters. The artist insists on materiality - the tactile is the most important. The works for the exhibition Hard Earned Innocence have been created in a chemical reaction over time, and the paint's pigment settles as dust on top of the prepared paper and retains them in the present. They are suspended in time so that the materials can be allowed to maintain their rawness their life. The works are as much about the materials as they are the inevitable, indirect artist self-portrait.

https://www.idoart.dk/kalender/marie-irmgard-birkedal-hard-earned-innocense