Anish Kapoor: Descension

artist Julian Charrière</a> (b. 1987) is a central figure on the international contemporary art scene. With an activist and scientific approach, Charrière explores our changing ideas of nature and how these have transformed across time. He invites critical reflection on humanity's use of natural resources and its impact on the environment and ecosystems in all-encompassing installations.</p><p>The exhibition Solarstalgia will immerse visitors in a darkened, marsh-like environment that evokes the ancient swamps of the Carboniferous era, highlighting the transformation of organic matter into fossil fuels over millions of years. Through a number of large-scale installations, Charrière underscores the absurdity of humanity's exploitation of these ancient landscapes and the deep temporal and emotional dissonance it creates.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>A play on the concept of solastalgia, the title suggests a collective deep-seated anxiety about environmental change and ecological collapse. In a scenography of past and present, the show connects existing artworks such as Panchronic Garden and An Invitation to Disappear with groundbreaking new commissions that invite the public to project themselves into endangered ecosystems and become protectors on their behalf.</p><p><br></p>" />

Frederik Næblerød</a> (b. 1988). He is known for his uncompromising art, where he challenges with great creative power our accustomed understanding of painting and sculpture in a raw, energetic and playful style.</p><p>With his works ranging from painting, ceramics, bronze and drawing to large-scale installations, he has created a very special artistic universe that invites us inside into the spontaneous, absurd and humorous. The exhibition at ARKEN will be an intense and sensual encounter with Frederik Næblerød's art. The exhibition is full of surprising spaces, and on the way around you get very close to the artist and his gaze on the contemporary. Frederik Næblerød unfolds a unique, humorous and boundary-breaking idiom in his works, which are sampled from science fiction, myths, dreams and images that he sees in everyday life. Næblerød creates art out of a great inner necessity, and at ARKEN there is an exhibition where art and life flow together.</p><p><br></p>" />

Caroline Achaintre</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Anish-Kapoor--Descension/"/Artist/Emilia-Bergmark/82AB8646F3DFE48E">Emilia Bergmark</a>, Imi <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Anish-Kapoor--Descension/"/Artist/Imi-Knoebel/8C5CA3BED9DE47C1">Knoebel, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Anish-Kapoor--Descension/"/Artist/Boris-Rebetez/CC1F91513C2DA382">Boris Rebetez</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Anish-Kapoor--Descension/"/Artist/Ursula-Klara-Reuter-Christiansen/9894226CC5EE0D98">Ursula Reuter Christiansen</a>.</p><p>Underpinning the sculptures and architectural models by Boris Rebetez in the center of the gallery is a modernist grammar based on geometrical elements such as the triangle, square angle, and circle. Akin to contemporary architecture, these means of expression shape the artist’s visual vocabulary, bringing the sculptures to life as complete syntactic forms.</p><p>The walls of the main space showcase works on paper by the contemporaries Ursula Reuter Christiansen and Imi Knoebel. Reuter Christiansen crafts enchanting forests and castles that capture the imagination, while Knoebel’s paintings infuse the room with vibrant colors and dynamic movement from his latest Etcetera series, which inherit the artist’s established formal language.</p><p>Barbette, a tufted wall piece by Caroline Achaintre, takes center stage in the showroom. It is juxtaposed with the artist’s characterful ceramic masks and a reverse glass painting by Emilia Bergmark titled Kitchen Sink Realism (Spilled Milk). This work references the British cultural movement “Kitchen Sink Painters” of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of artists who depicted domestic scenes of everyday life.</p><p><br></p>" />