FRieze sculpture 2024

We are very proud to announce Kirstine Roepstorff’s participation in this year’s edition of Frieze Sculpture, curated by Fatos Üstek. Kirstine Roepstorff is presenting her new work LIGHTNING ROD, conceived in response to the context of The Regent’s Park as a site of conglomeration and connection. LIGHTNING ROD highlights a shift in our understanding of energy, exploring how it can be captured, stored, transformed, and, most importantly, applied, for both destruction and creation. Roepstorff suggests that by refining what she refers to as our ‘inner technology’, we can unveil invisible aspects of existence. The multi-part sculpture incorporates cast bronze forms and natural stones to symbolize a speculative potential of energy transfer. Roepstorff poses the question: if lightning hit the bronze figures with enough force to crack open rocks, what revelations would emerge? Similarly, the installation contemplates the wisdom and skill needed to navigate energy. Through proportional reference, an elongated bronze conch shell evokes the human form, prompting consideration of what it might take for us to yield physically to the universe’s power, and to open up the stone’s potential along with our own. 

LIGHTNING ROD is part of Roepstorff’s ongoing project ‘Earth School’, which explores humanity’s place in an expanding and shifting world. Reflecting on our inability to navigate time and space, Roepstorff revisits ancient and forgotten techniques, such as the celestial navigation methods traditionally used by sailors to traverse oceans. Roepstorff likens such skills to an ‘inner technology’ that has been replaced by a modern reliance on external devices and systems. ‘Earth School’ embodies slow, visual poetry, inviting viewers to revive connection with the elemental forces that define our existence.

Qigong Workshops
Set against the backdrop of Roepstorff's multi-part sculpture, viewers are invited to activate the elemental power of Qigong. Qigong is an ancient practice rooted in movement, meditation, and breathwork. Shaped by a distinct awareness of the poetic power of simple movements, the series of classes titled ‘Earth School’, is aimed at harnessing and mastering vital life force energy. Join the classes every Sunday 11am - 12pm, September 22 - October 27.
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Visit Frieze Sculpture in The Regent’s Park, English Gardens, London, September 18 - October 27, 2024.

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MARKET ART FAIR 2024

At Market Art Fair 2024, 2112 is presenting a curated solo exhibition with new and older works by Gun Gordillo (b. 1945, Lund, SE, lives and works in Copenhagen, DK).

Since the 1970s, Gordillo has been a pioneer in her field, utilizing neon as her primary medium. Her artistic practice involves a continuous exploration of her chosen materials. Gordillo frequently engages neon lights in dialogue with lead, steel, brass, wood, acrylic glass and paint, pushing the boundaries of what is possible. With an uncompromising approach to both art and life, Gordillo’s works serve as a testament to the sublimely beautiful, the poetic and the rebellious.

For many years, Gun Gordillo was represented by the renowned gallery Denise René and resided in Paris for over two decades. Notable exhibitions include Cisternerne (Copenhagen), Aarhus Kunstbygning, Lunds Konsthall, Galerie Beyeler (Basel), Musée Matisse (Le Cateau-Cambrésis), Tsukuba Museum of Art (Ibaraki), among others. Gordillo has crafted various site-specific works, including installations at locations such as the Slussen Bus Terminal (Stockholm), Copenhagen Business School, Arlanda Airport (Stockholm), HK Head Quarters (Copenhagen), Jacob Burckhardt Haus (Basel), Quay of Hammarby (Stockholm), and VIA College (Aarhus). In 2023, her monumental neon installation on the ceiling of the metro station Hötorget in Stockholm underwent a complete renovation and has now been declared worthy of cultural-historical preservation.

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