UNCROWDED by WERNER VAN RECK

Uncrowded by WERNER VAN RECK

May 5th – June 16 , 2022

Opening on Thursday, May 5th from 4.00 pm to 7.00 pm – Dronningens Tværgade, 19- 1302 Copenhagen

‘Time is an ocean that ends on the beach’ Bob Dylan

Water is poetry. Sometimes hard and sharp, other times soft and elegant. Werner wandered along the coasts of Europe. Sometimes it was rough, then calm or everything in between. Yet the washing water always touched its inseparable companion: the land.

A perpetual motion of attraction and withdrawal, a flirtatious waterline. Fascinated, he looks at the water and documents what it does to people. Beaches and shores that seem to offer people time, needed to come to themselves. He immortalizes their moments of reflections.

Reflections that create subdued emotions, bring cheerful relation to life or evoke melancholy memories.

Retrospective by Alexis de VILAR

ALEXIS DE VILAR

About the author, Alexis de Vilar

His perfectly composed images immerse us in a sweetness of life… Paradoxically, Alexis de Vilar, while removing himself from current fashions, produces contemporary photographs, with soul, a timeless soul! How can we not hear the music he clearly loves when he uses titles like « Asia song », « Swahili song », « African song » ?

He only portrays women as sublime, perfect. You see them but you don’t hear them. The children, the vahinés, the men that surround them live in the Paradise that these photographs offer us. He also shows a penchant for what are called primitive worlds. Tribes on the verge of disappearing or already vanished. Women, men, elders, children, wild animals … a wealth of icons!

WINTER LIGHT 2021-2022

WINTER LIGHT 2021

In The Gallery would like to invite you to the exhibition Winter Light 2021, highlighting the work of some of the artists of the gallery and invited artists.

The longing for light reflects the current time of year, but it also makes reference to the necessity of it in the photographic process. We are presenting both smaller format photographic work in combination with oil paintings, each with their intensity of color and vibrant surfaces andalso small scale sculptures in classical materials.

Lise Johansson recently won the prestigious international photo prize IPA under the category Fine Art Photographyand she previously became Photographer of the Year in the International Color Award, and the achievement is well constituted in her work with its subtle tones and refined use of color and light.

OLE MARIUS JØRGENSEN: SNIPPETS FROM A TRAVELOGUE

4 October – 24 November 2018

In the series “Vignettes of a Salesman” Ole Marius Jørgensen stages situations inhabited by a lone traveller. The cinematic and dreamy atmosphere in Jørgensen’s photographs is heavily influenced by his background in film. Surrounded by beautiful rural vistas or situated in deserted locations, such as empty diners, motels or petrol stations, the traveller wanders through a scenery, which leaves us unsure whether we are trudging through actual outer landscapes or complex psychological terrains.

Ole Marius Jørgensen (b. 1976) is a Norwegian photographer, who has exhibited widely in the United States, Asia, and Europe. His work can be found in collections in Hong Kong, Stockholm, Oslo, London, Madrid and Berlin.
He is currently working on a book of his work to be published in 2019.

Artist website: olemariusphotography

AWARD WINNERS

August 9 2018 – September 29 2018

Jacob Gils, Carsten Ingemann, Lea Jessen, Jørgen Johansson, Lise Johansson, Dan Laustsen, Julien Mauve, Andrew Moore

In The Gallery presents AWARD WINNERS, a show consisting of works by critically acclaimed artists, all of which have won various prestigious awards from around the globe. The show depicts a broad glimpse into what the medium of fine art photography can be, and how it can emerge from many different backgrounds and approaches to picture making.

In AWARD WINNERS you will be able to see fine art photography by artists with backgrounds as diverse as in cinematography, photojournalism, advertising and architecture.
What they all have in common is the ability to create poetic and atmospheric imagery, which leaves no doubt about how art can transcend.

JACOB GILS lives and works in Copenhagen. He has exhibited in solo and group shows across the globe and his works are represented in the Danish Royal Collection, Nanjing Art Museum, China and at Maersk in Denmark as well as in private collections all over Europe, and in USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Australia.
Prix De La Photographie Paris 2012 and 2015
CARSTEN INGEMANN (b.1952) His works unfold in the space between a distinctly Nordic landscape tradition and a psychological space less easily defined. To his fine art practice, Carsten Ingemann brings a certain sensibility towards his subject matter, honed during his more than three decade long career as a renowned photographer, documenting political events, conflicts and war zones from around the world.
Danish Union of Press Photographers – Press Photography of the Year
Laust Jensen Award
LEA JESSEN (b.1978) lives and works in Copenhagen. She was educated at the School of Photography in 2004, and has worked with the photographic medium since 1997. Her works often focus on details whose original contexts are not always readily revealed. With their focus on clean lines and abstract colour planes, these anonymous architectural fragments take on a minimalist aesthetic, making them reminiscent of the concrete art of the 1940s and 50s.
Toyota Photography Award
JØRGEN JOHANSSON (b. 1960) is an internationally renowned cinematographer who graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1993. He is especially known for his work on The Bridge, Borgen, The Killing amongst others. Further Johansson has a background in still photography. He is a member of the Danish Society of Cinematographers.
The Bodil award
The Robert award
Danish Arts Foundation Award
Cinematographer Of The Year, Tv-festival
LISE JOHANSSON (b. 1985) is from Sæby, Denmark, and currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is educated from The Media College Denmark in 2016, and has travelled the world extensively as part of her photographic practice. There is a strong personal character to her works: a sense of abandonment and the curiosity towards the unknown.
Sony World Photography Awards
Monochrome Awards
Winner of the Hasselblad Student Award
FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards
DAN LAUSTSEN (b. 1954) graduated from the Danish National Film School in 1979, and is a member of both the Danish Society of Cinematographers and The American Society of Cinematographers. Laustsen has repeatedly collaborated with the Danish director Ole Bornedal on films such as Nightwatch and Just Another Love Story, and internationally with Guillermo del Toro, notably on the films Crimson Peak and The Shape of Water. Laustsen is also known for his work on the films Silent Hill and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Oscar-nominated Best Achievement in Cinematography; The Shape of Water
Bodil Awards (two times)
Robert festival
JULIEN MAUVE (b. 1984) lives and works in France, Paris.
Mauve has had exhibitions at Le Salon de la Photo, stand SONY, Paris, MAP festival, Toulouse, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, amongst other places.
Mauve is a visual artist creating cinematographic and narrative photography series dealing with human interactions and conditions. His work raises questions about our future, the threats that our civilization is facing, the quest meaning and our relationship with technologies.
Paris Photo Art Fair – Jeune Talents Award
Sony World Photography Awards
ANDREW MOORE (1957) is a New York based fine art photographer and filmmaker, whose colourful photographs depict famous urban places, landscapes and architectural structures, largely devoid of people. Moore’s photographs employ the formal vocabularies of architectural and landscape photography and the narrative approaches of documentary photography and journalism to detail remnants of societies in transition.
Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize
Black Maria Festival, Director’s Citation Award
Michigan Notable Books Selection
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows