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Jacob Dahl Jürgensen and Anja Schwörer
We are happy to announce our second exhibition at croy nielsen and present London-based, Danish artist Jacob Dahl Jürgensen (1975) and Anja Schwörer (1972) from Berlin. Occultism and aspects of modernism are central features in their sculptures and paintings, respectively. Jacob Dahl Jürgensen combines references to avant-garde aesthetics, esoterica and popular culture. Staged as items reminiscent of an ethnographical collection, his sculptures can be perceived as ritualistic relics from a semi-recognizable civilization. In 'Astrolabe' (2005) for instance, a battered mirror-ball suspended in a constructivist frame is presented along with other artifacts as a primitive astrological device found in an archaeological excavation. Jürgensen's sculptures function like small narratives that create paradoxes and parallels which seem just as obvious as they are impossible. Anja Schwörer 's preferred medium is large-scale painting and the use of bleach and color on cotton. Images that are inspired by expressionistic crystal forms and have a futuristic dynamism are exposed to an unpredictable tie-dye technique. Schwörer is playing with the archaic symbols and systems that shape our collective categorization of the goodness and beauty of light and the evil of darkness. The coloring and dying causes an interplay between construction and deconstruction, and the paintings are spiritualized, not through immaterialization, but through intensifying the material.
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