—Untitled (floating surface #2)
2008
Metal and silksatin
22 x150 x 200 cm
The contrast between the light, silkily shimmering gold fabric and the hard, nail-like supports on which the cloth is placed lends this sculpture a bipolarity between a static object and a fluid motion. The pointed supports leave traces on the surface of the cloth, but without damaging it. The wave-like structure of the regular bulges reinforces the impression of the fabric’s lightness and truly makes it seem to float. The actual demarcation of planar materiality seems to have been eliminated, since the connection of ground and coating results in a volume and three-dimensionality that can only be experienced visually.
Alternating between reality and imagination, Tove Storch’s installations often seem illusionistic, calling our perception into question. In the context of the circus, the floating structure and the contrasting connection between the pointed nails and delicate material can be interpreted as reminiscent of classical illusionists such as fakirs.
Biography
* 1981 in Denmark
2000- 2007 The Royal Danish Art Academy, Akademie der Bildende Künste, Wien, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee
Lives and works in Vienna and Copenhagen
Selected exhibitions
—2009
Panorama da arte Brasileira, MAM, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Sleepwalking, Temporary Gallery Cologne
Refhink - the implicit, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
—2008
U-Turn Quadrennial, U-Turn Quadrennial
KBH Kunsthal, Krabbesholm Denmark (solo)
Enter, Kunsthallen Brandts, Denmark
Overgaden - Institute for contemporary art, Copenhagen (solo)
Reduced Constructin, Karma International, Zürich
—2007
Kirkhoff, Copenhagen (solo)
Q, Copenhagen (solo)
detours/details, with Ursula Nistrup, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna
—2006
Société des nations..., Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Add x to n, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
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