Nathalie Djurberg
dal 21/10/2005 al 22/10/2005
Segnalato da
21/10/2005
Nathalie Djurberg
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, London
A special One-Off screening curated by Caroline Corbetta. Artist's world is a grotesque combination of innocence, perversion, violence and (black) humour, moulded in plasticine and animated with the step motion technique. It is visually influenced by Western pictorial and cinematographic traditions, Eastern European animations, as well as Japanese cartoons. In this special screening 3 new videos are presented: The Swing, Because it is wonderful to live and Danse Macabre.
Nathalie Djurberg's world is a grotesque combination of innocence, perversion,
violence and (black) humour, moulded in plasticine and animated with, the
basic but laborious, step motion technique. Disturbing yet irresistible, her childlike
"animated paintings" deal with harsh issues such as human beings' inclination
towards evil, but also affirm life's beauty. Poised between melancholy and irony,
desire and despair Djurberg's work – which is visually influenced by Western
pictorial and cinematographic traditions, Eastern European animations as well
s Japanese and American cartoons – generates a weird feeling which is heightened
by the soundtrack created by the musician Hans Berg in close collaboration with
the artist.
In this special screening - curated by Caroline Corbetta who came to know the
work of Nathalie Djurberg while organizing the 2004 edition of Momentum,
the Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art - three new videos are presented: The Swing,
freely inspired by the famous Fragonard's painting; Denn es ist schön zu leben
(Because it is wonderful to live), a tale of terror set in an enchanted building and
inspired by the Swedish novel Jägarna på karinhall; Danse Macabre, a delirious musical
where walking dead people are the main characters. A selection of works created in
the past two years is also shown, such as Florentin, where two young and seemingly
innocent girls change into sadistic executioners, Tiger licking girl's butt where the
action, brought forward by the title, is many times interpolated with the obsessive
writing "Why do I have the urge to do these things over and over again?", and the
charming misspelled Hans looses his both arms and legs about the cruelty of war and
the preciousness of life. Also on screen the more recent video animation dedicated to
Badain, the black "mascot" given as a present to the queen Lovisa Ulrika in the 1700s,
and Birthday party, a chronicle of a wild party also set within the realm of the
eighteenth- century.
Nathalie Djurberg was born in Lysekil, Sweden, in 1978 and currently lives and works
in Berlin. She graduated at Malmö Art Academy with, amongst other professors, the
artist Lars Nilsson. Djurberg has already exhibited in various museums and galleries
such as Moderna Museet and Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Galleria Gio' Marconi, Milano,
Sparwasser HQ, Berlin. She also took part in group shows such as Momentum 2004, Moss,
Malm1 at Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, and "Nordic light" at Museum Küppersmule, Duisburg.
Hours:11 am - 12 pm
For more info on the screening contact David Gryn: +44(0)7711127848
Event organized by David Gryn
Supported by Moderna Muset, Stockholm
For further info and images contact Galleria Gio' Marconi: info@giomarconi.com and Galleria Maze: mail@galleriamaze.it
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leichester Square, London WC2
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