It's Raining Men!
31 January – 21 February 2009
Jesper Just, Martin Erik Andersen, Alexander Tovborg, Ferdinand Krag, Simon Dybbroe Møller (Maria Loboda), Ulrik Møller, Ulrik Heltoft, Ulrik Weck, Peter Holst Henckel, Kaspar Bonnén and Troels Sandegård
We are celebrating our first exhibition of 2009 with the group exhibition It's Raining Men! The choice of artists is entirely subjective and chauvinist, and is based solely on admiration of the contributing artists' works.
Most of the works in the exhibition are new, and all of the artists, on request, have contributed the works they wanted to exhibit in this context. The result is a coherent presentation that is powerful, humorous and self-referential in relation to the male gender – and the absence of the female gender.
For a long time, there has been a curatorial point in holding exhibitions with women only. It's Raining Men! does not attempt to exclude women from art, but seeks rather to explore the energies that are released when only men are invited.
And it quickly becomes evident that the artists have worked very consciously with the absence of women. Simon Dybbroe Møller, who already utilises a conceptual artistic language, has for example left it to his artist girlfriend Maria Loboda to create a work that consists of a long list of books and films with titles such as: The Man Who Sold the World, The Man Who Fell from the Sky, The Man Who Was Saturday, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, etc., etc.
Similarly, Troels Sandegård has worked in a consciously gender-specific manner by producing a perfume that smells of men's sweat, which he uses in a provocative and humorous fashion to produce a concentrated amount of testosterone in a perfume bottle.
Martin Erik Andersen has created a new work, the contents of which provide the best possible illustration of the exhibition's title, namely a plinth of mirror glass, on top of which a naked man (the artist himself) dances beneath a home-made umbrella. The work is sensual and very typical of Martin Erik Andersen, in that it is an innovative mixture of materials such as glass, photography, incense, garlands, etc.
Galleri Christina Wilson
