KINGA BARTIS & COLINE MAROTTA "SOME DAYS LAST A LONG TIME" 📷

Friday, June 5, 2020 2:00 PM 14:00
Friday, June 26, 2020 5:00 PM 17:00

OK Corral, Frederiksberg Rolighedsvej 9 Frederiksberg, 1958 Denmark (map)

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Kinga Bartis & Coline Marotta “Some days last a long time” (installation view). Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

Pressemeddelelse, maj 2020

I en tid, hvor vi dyrker det rationelle, velartikulerede og formelle, bliver det usynlige og slørede devalueret og lagt til side. Det tvetydige, afviste og ikke-logiske – det finder vi nu i kælderen. I installationen Some days last a long time bruger Bartis og Marotta maleriets essens som et medium til at åbne døren ind til det subjektive, mavefornemmelser og underlige projektioner.

To praksisser flettes sammen og kan derfor tappe ind i hinanden. To processer flyder på deres egen måde og mødes her i et fælles rum. Som det vand, som er grundlag og mødested for denne udstilling; en fælles, neutral grund for fælles skabelse. Vand som liv, et sikkert rum, et mellemrum og et ønske. Det er her, Bartis og Marottas foreslag om, hvad kan og ikke vil rationalisere stammer fra.

Coline Marotta skaber i sine værker et drømmende univers, hvor vandet fremmaner stemninger hos figurer i en idealiseret setting: Enten en idylisk fortid eller den nærmeste fremtid. Hun tilbyder os et sted for kontemplation, mens hun selv drømmer igennem maleprocessen.

Kinga Bartis’ værker er reflektioner over eksistensen og lignende spørgsmål i forskellige magtforhold. Med sin politiske og kulturelle baggrund som tung baggage, udgør hendes lærreder en blanding af personlig mytologi, sociologiske og andre kulturelle elementer og resultater af selve maleprocessen.

Begge praksisser balancerer imellem fluiditet, grove teksturer, gennemsigtighed og opacitet. Motiverne foregår ofte ved eller i vand, i et mentalt landskab, der er balancerer imellem forskellige virkeligheder.

Coline Marotta “It was written somewhere that human kind came from tears”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen. — Coline Marotta “It was written somewhere that human kind came from tears”.
Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

Coline Marotta “I’ve forgotten all what I thought I hated”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

Coline Marotta er uddannet fra Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi i 2017. Hun har tidligere udstillet på Public Gallery (UK), V1 Gallery (DK), Alice Folker Gallery (DK), The Tennis Elbow (US) og Kunstverein Reutlingen (DE). Marotta bor og arbejder i København.

Kinga Bartis er uddannet fra Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi i 2018 og har desuden en kandidatgrad i samfundsvidenskab. Efter eksamen har hun udstillet i Belgien, Danmark, Portugal og England og har for nylig vist sine værker på Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling. Bartis bor og arbejder i København.

Udstillingen er støttet af Statens Kunstfond og Tapet Cafe, Gentofte.

NB: På grund af covid-19 vil der ikke blive afholdt ordinær fernisering på udstillingen.

Ferniseringsdage: 5. - 6. juni, kl. 14-19 | Facebook event
Udstillingsperiode: 5. juni - 26. juni, 2020.
Åbningstider: Onsdag - lørdag: kl. 13-17.

Coline Marotta “Vertical dreaming (ongoing childhood)”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen. — Coline Marotta “Vertical dreaming (ongoing childhood)”.
Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

Coline Marotta “On becoming a wave”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

English:

Press Release, May 2020

In times of cultivating the rational, the well articulated and formal, the invisible and blurry gets devaluated and set aside. Ambiguous fears, desires, hopes, the denied, the not logical and non-sense – we now find them in the cellar. With this installation Bartis and Marotta use painting’s essence as a medium to open gates into the subjective, gut feelings and strange projections.

Two body of works are intertwined and therefore they can tap into each other. Two processes flow their own ways and meet here in a space created cooperatively. Just like water, that forms an expanse and as a meeting point for this exhibition; a neutral common ground for creating together. Water as life, a safe space, an in between space, a desire. It’s here Batis' and Marotta's suggestions on what they could and would not rationalise stem from.

Coline Marotta’s works exist in a dreamy universe where water assists the mood of her characters, while it is the setting of the desired place to be as well: either the idealised past or the near future. She offers a place of contemplation to us, while herself musing through the process of painting.

Kinga Bartis’ works are reflections on existence and similar matters in various power relations. Leaning heavily on her political and cultural background her canvases are a mix of personal mythology, sociological and other cultural elements and results of the painting process itself.

Both practices are balancing on fluidity, hard texture, transparency and opacity. The motives often placed by or within water, in a mental landscape balancing between diverse realities.

Kinga Bartis “Techno Tears”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

Kinga Bartis “Shelters from Light”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

Coline Marotta received an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Arts of Fine Arts in 2017. Her work have been exhibited at Public Gallery (UK), V1 (DK), Alice Folker Gallery (DK), The Tennis Elbow (US) and Kunstverein Reutlingen (DE). Marotta lives and works in Copenhagen.

Kinga Bartis received an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Arts of Fine Arts in 2018 and holds a master degree in social sciences. She has exhibited in Belgium, Denmark, Portugal and England, and has recently shown her works at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling. Bartis lives and works in Copenhagen.

The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and Tapet Cafe, Gentofte.

NB: Due to covid-19 there will be no ordinary opening of the exhibition.

Opening days: 5th - 6th of June, 2-7pm | Facebook event
Exhibition period: 5th - 26th of June, 2020.
Opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday: 1-5pm.

Kinga Bartis “Waterbed” & “The Only Way out is Thru”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

Coline Marotta “I want to take Richard Brautigan poem collection and read it for weeks, then when I’m done I’ll read it again”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

Kinga Bartis “Waterbed”. Foto: Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen.

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