Black
Danish artist Pernille Koldbech Fich's new series 'Black' takes classic portraiture and interior photography as its initial inspiration, using the colour (or non-colour) black to create a special dialogue between reality and fiction.
Udstillingsperiode:
17-02-2012 -
18-03-2012
Medie:
Photography
Titel:
Black
Kunstner:
Pernille Koldbech Fich (DK)
Danish artist Pernille Koldbech Fich's new series BLACK takes classic portraiture and interior photography as its initial inspiration, using the colour (or non-colour) black to create a special dialogue between reality and fiction.
Yet it is not merely an interest in pure classical portraits, coupled with the will to portray women as authentically and realistically as possible, which drives the art of Pernille Koldbech Fich. Within the traditional portrait photograph, the background is often an anonymous black wall. By contrast, Pernille Koldbech Fich seats her women subjects in a timeless darkness, replacing the portrait genre's typical background with two black plates that also reflect one another. The plates are placed at different distances from the camera, shifting the room's dimensions and character relative to the sitters. In a slightly distorted form the viewer is given access to the invisible part of the room, which the portrayed women look at. The background could thus be said at once to reveal and conceal the invisible.
Pernille Koldbech Fich is taking this a bit further: the interior photos mirror those of the reflective black background, emphasizing the emptiness of the rooms. Hints in the imagery, however, give the feeling that meetings between people may have just taken place; confidential conversations in pairs or groups; or perhaps there has been a feast? The psychological tension is emphasized by the emptiness - understood as the absence of people. It is precisely the "absence" that feels strong and that leaves the room with such a distinctive poetic uneasiness.
Pernille Koldbech Fich (b. 1971) graduated from the Danish Design School. She has exhibited both at home and abroad and is represented in many photographic collections like The Danish Art Council, Nykredit and The National Museum of Photography. She works with staged photography and in recent years she has mainly concentrated on how much of a story can be told with minimum resources. The basic principles of her photography can be found in simply designed rooms, with or without fictional characters and their imagery. She often uses elements from several time periods, linking them to the history of painting and photography.
For more info please visit: www.pernillekoldbechfich.com.
In connection with the exhibition Galleri Image will be publishing a catalogue, with a text by the German art historian Jens Asthoff, and an interview by Danish art historian Kathrine Svanum Andersen.
OPENING Friday 17 February 2012: 16.00 to 18.00
The artist will be present.
ARTIST TALK Saturday 18 February at 14.00
The exhibition is generously supported by: Aarhus Kommune, Kulturudviklingspulje og Aarhuus Stiftstidendes Fond.
Yet it is not merely an interest in pure classical portraits, coupled with the will to portray women as authentically and realistically as possible, which drives the art of Pernille Koldbech Fich. Within the traditional portrait photograph, the background is often an anonymous black wall. By contrast, Pernille Koldbech Fich seats her women subjects in a timeless darkness, replacing the portrait genre's typical background with two black plates that also reflect one another. The plates are placed at different distances from the camera, shifting the room's dimensions and character relative to the sitters. In a slightly distorted form the viewer is given access to the invisible part of the room, which the portrayed women look at. The background could thus be said at once to reveal and conceal the invisible.
Pernille Koldbech Fich is taking this a bit further: the interior photos mirror those of the reflective black background, emphasizing the emptiness of the rooms. Hints in the imagery, however, give the feeling that meetings between people may have just taken place; confidential conversations in pairs or groups; or perhaps there has been a feast? The psychological tension is emphasized by the emptiness - understood as the absence of people. It is precisely the "absence" that feels strong and that leaves the room with such a distinctive poetic uneasiness.
Pernille Koldbech Fich (b. 1971) graduated from the Danish Design School. She has exhibited both at home and abroad and is represented in many photographic collections like The Danish Art Council, Nykredit and The National Museum of Photography. She works with staged photography and in recent years she has mainly concentrated on how much of a story can be told with minimum resources. The basic principles of her photography can be found in simply designed rooms, with or without fictional characters and their imagery. She often uses elements from several time periods, linking them to the history of painting and photography.
For more info please visit: www.pernillekoldbechfich.com.
In connection with the exhibition Galleri Image will be publishing a catalogue, with a text by the German art historian Jens Asthoff, and an interview by Danish art historian Kathrine Svanum Andersen.
OPENING Friday 17 February 2012: 16.00 to 18.00
The artist will be present.
ARTIST TALK Saturday 18 February at 14.00
The exhibition is generously supported by: Aarhus Kommune, Kulturudviklingspulje og Aarhuus Stiftstidendes Fond.
