©Jesper Fabricius
©Jesper Fabricius
©Jesper Fabricius
©Jesper Fabricius
AUGUST 4TH - SEPTEMBER 23RD 2007
Fotografisk Center is proud to present on the occasion of Jesper Fabricius' 50th birthday, August 3rd, the exhibition and book -
'Partial Exemplary Photographic Examples of, among other things, Houses and Landscapes'.
Partial Exemplary Photographic Examples of, among other things, Houses and Landscapes comprises over 200 images where architecture is the main focus.
The photographs appear unpretentious and the use of the miniature format engages and strengthens the overall poetic sensibility.
There is a childlike innocence about these images that makes them accessible in their positive and suggestive joy.
Pictures of houses, flowers, landscapes and building sites, a universe marked by innocence. Jesper Fabricius' photographs form a cycle that connects landscape and city.
The pictures are small, very small. They are neither taken with a professional camera nor developed in a professional lab, nevertheless the images are interesting.
They contain a suppleness that arises from a contrast between the playful and the severe.
Playful because the camera apparently captures with an instant spontaneity and severe because the forms adopt extremely stringent spaces.
It is in this way often easy to recognize Jesper Fabricius' photographs no matter how different they might be.
The images reflect a constant reconnaissance process, hence the titles 'Exemplary' and Examples', a process that investigates the uncovering of life's, at times,
uneven structures.
Jesper Fabricius (3.8.57) is known for his many broad ranging activities in Danish art and culture. Both as an active artist using installation, painting, collage, film and photography and as a purveyor through the publishing house 'Space Poetry', the magazine 'Pist Protta' and as a curator for a wide range of exhibitions.
Everything in Jespers oeuvre appears simple and easy to attain, though containing an enormous complexity.
A disarming insecurity and at times childish joy with his work is replaced by a deeper experience and a wish for a more thorough interpretation of our time.
The organizing of his photography, the collages, paintings, the installations and even his publishing policy reaches beyond the formalistic.
There is an intimacy in the images and in the work as a whole and in the midst of this constant economizing with his means, the unpretentious, Jesper manages to create a matrix, a simplification, where space is investigated.
This simplification is not to be confused with the clear cut, in fact the opposite, the images give way to new images, new connections.
Jesper Fabricius exhibits concurrently at Gallery Tom Christoffersen from 4/8 - 18/8 2007
The Exhibition and book has received support from The Danish Arts Council
“Delvist eksemplariske eksempler på fotografier af blandt andet huse og landskaber”
Texts by Claus Handberg Christensen, Panya Belton & Lars Schwander 128 pages, illustrated.,
Forlaget Fotografisk Center, ISBN 978-87-90362-40-9, kr. 145,-
©Jesper Fabricius |
©Jesper Fabricius |
©Jesper Fabricius |
©Jesper Fabricius |