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  • Vinterbilleder

    18 August – 15 September 2023

    Torben Ribe

    Opening: Friday 18 Aug 17:00–20:00

    The exhibition is supported by:
    Statens Kunstfond

    KIOSK is supported by:
    Frederiksbergfonden
    Frederiksberg Kommune
    Det Obelske Familiefond
    Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond

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  • We are pleased to present a new exhibition by Danish artist Torben Ribe.

    Torben Ribe often makes quasi-abstract paintings to act as props in large installations, but for his show at KIOSK he presents a series of almost classical landscape paintings, all modest in size. Like the title of the show, Vinterbilleder (Winter Images), all the individual works borrow their titles from renowned Danish painter Per Kirkeby. The paintings doesn’t exactly resemble Kirkeby’s grandiose works though, being that most of them aren’t much bigger than cakes able to fit the oven and the painterly surfaces only partially hides personal imagery, bills and over-the-counter medicines. Maybe the works looks more like a kindergarten’s take on Turner, without the necessary adult supervision to avoid one big mess as an end result or a sloppy unfinished monochrome (if such thing exist).

    The exhibited works do though share a common altmodische feel with Kirkeby, a trait that’s often associated with Scandinavian landscape painting and the special Nordic melancholia that goes along with it. Spring never comes and even the summer nights feels cold. The bills and images of modern medicine that functions as a background, doesn’t exactly make it any more cheerful. Take some pain killers and lay down, this landscape is not going to get better any time soon.

    Green Spring, 2023
    Acrylic, bills, pen and ink jet on canvas, frame
    81 x 61 cm

    Towards Evening / Shoulder Pain, 2023
    Acrylic, bills, straw, medicine package and ink jet on canvas
    50 x 40 cm

    Dry Summer, 2023
    Acrylic, bills, pen, dead fly and ink jet on canvas
    60 x 50 cm

    Judgement Day, 2023
    Acrylic, bills, pen and ink jet on canvas
    50 x 40 cm

    Darkness, 2023
    Acrylic, bills, pen, oat meal and ink jet on canvas
    80 x 60 cm

    Towards Evening, 2023
    Acrylic, bills, pen, straw, medicine package and ink jet on canvas
    50 x 40 cm

    Evening Mood, 2023
    Acrylic, bills, pen, oat meal and ink jet on canvas
    60 x 50 cm

    Low Moon, 2023
    Acrylic, bills, pen and ink jet on canvas
    60 x 50 cm



















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