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Esben Weile Kjær’s incredible stained-glass pieces can be found in several places this spring about Copenhagen - Claus Andersen’s gallery in Norrebro and the Kunsthal Charlottenborg downtown. At @andersenscontemporary Esben Weile Kjaer looks to the dancing marathons of 1920s America, while at @kunsthalcharlottenborg his imagery is inspired by the tragedy of a dancing plague in 1518 that drove people to literally dance until they’re dead. 🟥🟦🟨🟩 Kathrine Ærtebjerg’s mystical visions of women at Galerie Mikael Anderson are filled with sensual, bodily reference and put me in mind of surrealist symbols of reproductive organs and budding new life as well as nymphs of the forest. Dreamlike in their account of potent femininity, these works are featured in the exhibition ‘You are me, I am you,’ which comes to an end this weekend. Spring nest 🍀 Danish artist Krista Rosenkilde’s bold and brilliant paintings at Galleri Christopher Egelund blur the mythical symbols of flowers and stars with folkloric tarot cards and reference to art history in tales of burgeoning femininity. This new series of paintings has the richness and texture of tapestries. It also helps that they seem like the kind of wonderfully eccentric objet de curiosité you might find on the walls of a Victorian soothsayer 🟦🟧🟩 ‘Drinking the Kool-Aid (in millennial purple)’ (2021) by Dutch artist Bob Eikelboom - on view at Alice Folker Gallery, tucked away in a light-filled attic off Nyhavn. Eikelboom is paired with his friend and sometimes collaborator Asger H. Gjerdevik in this show, but this curious work with magnets, enamel and acrylic caught my eye that seems to blow a raspberry at Henri Matisse’s ‘Goldfish’ (1912) from over a hundred years ago. Moki Cherry’s vibrant, radical and joyful textiles are on view at Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Nørrebro this spring. The Swedish artist’s appliqué tapestries are filled with the same marvellous energy of the jazz musicians and artists of the 1960s and 1970s that surrounded Cherry and her husband Don, and were often used as backdrops for the stage. With no fixed address, Cherry crucially viewed ‘home as stage, stage as home.’ A snappy visit to London and a chance to see a few shows, including the current group exhibition at @thesundaypainter featuring these wonderfully intimate and gentle, yet curiously enigmatic paintings by Helena Foster. London-based Foster works with photographs often from family albums and film, such as Nigerian Cinema, which she rephotographs and then paints, drawn to the complex interactions of daily life and our shared experiences. Ian McKeever’s physically impressive Henge paintings have just been unveiled at Susanne Ottesen, perhaps the most ambitious series of the abstract British artist to date. Divided between two planes, these works speak to the two realms of mental and physical existence, of transient light and fossilised dark with rich material paint.
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