Besides from that it has been some awesome experiences messing around with sculpture on both schools. At VERA we had a 2 week workshop with artists Maiken Bent and Torben Ribe (www.torbenribe.dk/ and www.maikenbent.dk/). The workshop had to do with ready-made objects and presentation. We had to focus on aesthetics and not do our usual routine which I definitely found useful. It was liberating not having to make art that tried to mean anything, but rather just try out new things and experiment. The final product I ended up with (a no title) was rather dull but it was an exciting process, especially due to some profound disagreements about that what-is-art-to-you-then discussion.
At ARKEN BGK we had a workshop with artist Veo Friis Jespersen. It was about sculptures, she showed us her work and explained about her ideas and then we were to make a sculpture of our own, with her body of work as starting point. Once again it was very different from anything that I've made before and I really felt that I learned something from it. To be fair there was a lot playing around with the materials kindergarten style, which we were kind of encouraged to do so it was all good, definitely very liberating. The assignment was to make a sculpture that deals with a paradox in the choice of materials - light/heavy, readymade/handmade etcetera (at least that's what I thought was the assignment) .
The final products were pretty cool, it is definitely some talented fellow students.
My final sculpture. The brown stuff is PU foam with enamel coating.
This is a blind end work recess something, but I had to upload it as well. Check out the amazing floor and huge doors ! . Pretty as. It's at Arken.
A couple of the other students works. I'm amazed.Being at the two schools at the same time is pretty cool, they are complementing each other very well, I feel privileged. For example, I would never have brought a ready-made to Arken if it was'nt because we were working with ready-made objects at Vera.
Next week I leave for Rome for a week. Got some free tickets from La Familia. Effing great!
It's at the same time as a one night study-trip to London with Vera,
you win some you lose some.
I still have a huge headache, probably from the scar tissue on my brain. I'm kinda self-medicating with pain killers every day, but they're really helping.