Raum # 318
LONE HAUGAARD MADSEN
OPENING:
Saturday 26 January 2013
OPEN:
27 January
24 March 2013
Vienna-based sculptor Lone Haugaard Madsen (born 1974) was part of the NAK-affiliated project TWODO last year.
The artist’s exhibition at NAK now takes this collaborative relationship as its focus with a presentation at NAK. It addresses and expands upon the series of works that was already created in the context of the TWODO project. This link between already existing works is a recurring theme of the artist, who from time to time also integrates works from artist colleagues into her installations and provides a very specific view of the “artwork.” In the exhibition space, objects that seem almost laconic, fragile, or even bizarre are turned into a network of set pieces that result in a spatial choreography. The artist’s works are constructed primarily from everyday materials, scraps, and remnants of an artistic process of production. The works are both created by this process and question it at the same time, but the somewhat haphazardly produced remnants function as protagonists. Thus, the artist negotiates the parameters of art production by reflecting upon both her own position as artist as well as that of the recipient and his/her expectations. In so doing, Lone Haugaard Madsen references both the actual production conditions of the location and of working in the studio, as well as the development of the exhibition in institutional space.
TWODO was founded in 1999 as a collector’s group and represents a heretofore one-of-a-kind model for private art engagement. TWODO underwrites yearly a portion of the NAK’s production budget, and is thus an untypical project dedicated to collecting art.
Photo: Simon Vogel