TILBAGEBLIK II

KUNSTBYGNINGEN I VRÅ

How do you become an artist? Is this a natural talent that unfolds? How do you learn to create art? And when can you call yourself an artist - when do you truly feel that you are one?

The concept behind Tilbageblik is to give the viewer an insight into the engine room of art. Showing examples of all the roads – detours, byways and highways – an artist typically has to walk; all the trials that are needed to develop as an artist - and to become an artist in general. The exhibition shows works by eight contemporary artists with very different practices. The term "Retrospective exhibition" exhibition is usually a form of display there guides the audience through one artist's (long) life's work. But here we have a total of eight artists and can therefore more broadly show many of the steps on the way an artist takes on the way to a mature and personal expression.

We would like to show that a work of art is not just an idea that arose out of nothing, but an expression of accumulated experience, testing of materials, ideas and observation over a long period of time. Here the public can see works from the early start with exercises and studies, to completed larger works that characterize the artist today.

The exhibition has been developed in collaboration with three of the participating artists: Jonna Pedersen, Simon Grimm and Jacob Hoff as well as both the Art Building in Vrå – the Engelundsamlingen and the Janus Building in Tistrup.

This exhibition gives the audience a unique insight into how far an artist can move from start to finish to more complete expression. The public can look forward to experiencing a diverse exhibition with painting, sculpture and installation, from model studies to abstract expressions", Signe Højmark, Kunstbygningen Vrå .

ANNE SKOLE OVERGAARD

BJARKE REGN SVENDSEN

BJØRN POULSEN

JACOB HOFF

JONNA PEDERSEN

KARIN LORENTZEN

MARIE BIRKEDAL

SIMON GRIMM

The exhibition is supported by the Statens Kunstfond and Sparekassen Danmark Fonden Vendsyssel

Opening Saturday 14 September at 14:00

Exhibition period: 15.09.-17.11.2024

Open: Tue-Fri: 12-4pm and Sat-Sun: 1-4pm

Contact information: Head of the Art Building in Vrå: Signe Højmark: sh@kunstbygningen.dk