UND#5 - Traveller 2

© 2011 Kenneth Pils
 
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
© 2011 Kenneth Pils
A temporary home for the most nessesary while exploring the world.

On the road ... Gaze sweeping across locations - home and base camps for those who inhabit them. Sometimes the gaze stops at one spot. A place that could have been my home. Had it been different? Certainly, not clear how, yet. Daydreaming- the postcard becomes 3-dimensional; the backdrop get a backside, the gap is shrinking.
Wake up to the noise. Now I sit in the car again, on the way home. Anonymous places sweeps past. My base camp is available everywhere - always.

To paint is to travel. The hand work - from the sweeping broad overview to the detailed microscopic world and back. The gaze inhabit the picture, walking around and looking for temporary homes. When the painting concerns me it becomes my home - for a while anyway.

Several of the houses have biographical significance for me: kindergarten, a pumping station, a grill kiosk. Now, they are seen in new contexts. Specifically, Dutch paintings from the 1600s (Jan van Goyen, Jacob and Salomon van Ruisdael and others). The motifs flows into each other, are reinterpreted, they dissolves and reappear.

Horizon height is the same: it runs right through the pictures. Relation to the paintings is twofold: they can both be seen as part of a larger whole and as individual images. In addition, the installation has a physical shape. It activates the body; you go around and find different angles to see.

Basecamp 2 “Basecamp” at V-art09* had a wide mental span of approaches regarding the basic concept. Artworks dealing with ideas around society, body, idenity, the home, the mind, migration and consumption was presented. All was new artworks that were a result of discussions within the group about the idéa of “Basecamp” alternated with individual work. At UND#5 new works and further developments of works shown at V.art-09 are presented.

UND#5 - Traveller 2

Projekt: 
Traveller
Year: 
2010
Date: 
Tue 2 March - Sun 7 March
Type: 
Group show
Place: 
UND#5
Karlsruhe
Media: 
Painting
Material: 
Acrylic
Material: 
Mixed media
Work data: 
10 st 50 x 70 cm acrylic paintings on canvas standing on 2 m long metal tubes. All 10 are assembled together to form a winding panoramic landscape. The visitor moves around the work and are surrounded by, outside of, front of and rear of the landscape. This gives both a visual and physical relationship to the work.
Info: 
“Basecamp” is a collaboration between 6 artists from Studio 44: Jannike Brantås, Michael Ellburg, Rikard Fåhreaus, Monika Masser, Lotte Nilsson-Välimaa, Kenneth Pils