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Next to the Sea surveys the impact of the sea – from voyage and an ache for adventure to nostalgia and a sense of belonging. Faced with a rhythmic vastness and an expanse of shores, the sea reminds us how close we are to the next adventure and how far we have traveled from where we began.
The exhibition brings together works of three artists, Pierre Botardo, David Hochbaum and Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen.
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“The collage work produced exhibits his understanding that the allure is consequential of this absence.”
Pierre Botardo, From the Heavens, 2011. Collage, 8 1/2 x 11 in. Courtesy of the artist.
For Immediate Release: Next To The Sea Opens at Munch Gallery
Next to the Sea surveys the impact of the sea – from voyage and an ache for adventure to nostalgia and a sense of belonging. Faced with a rhythmic vastness and an expanse of shores, the sea reminds us how close we are to the next adventure and how far we have traveled from where we began.
The exhibition brings together works of three artists, Pierre Botardo, David Hochbaum and Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen. Ranging from tattoo needle-embossed imagery to multi-layered dreamlike compositions, the works border on the surreal and draw references to classic Dada collage works and Early Modern pilgrimage.
Pierre Botardo
Botardo’s work is concerned with intricate family relations – social and religious topics rarely discussed in the immediate culture of his upbringing. The collage work produced exhibits his understanding that the allure is consequential of this absence. Such consequences resolve themselves in a learned definition of mysticism in terms of intimacy, sexuality, and authority; forceful and manipulative. The images are not intended to ascribe a quality to this definition, but to display it as individual concepts inseparable of one another.
David Hochbaum, Folly of Man, 2011. Large format polaroid, 20 x 24 in. Courtesy of the artist.
David Hochbaum
Hochbaum’s output is centered on the power of myth. But to understand his work, one must understand that the myths he explores have little to do with the gods and monsters of antiquity. Hochbaum incorporates the ideas, ideologies and iconography of his vivid dreams with the lives seen everyday on the streets of his native New York to create a new mythology. These visceral stories attempt to explain visually the unknown elements and intricacies of modern life.
Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen
Key to Dahlstrup’s practice is a process of calculated spontaneity and preplanned coincidence through which he works primarily with a combination of drawing and installation. He aims to engage physically in the process of mark making which have led him to develop a technique of hand embossing paper with a tattoo needle. By merging of material and context, he seeks to communicate using the visual language of nautical folklore and traditional tattooing.
‘Next to the Sea’ exhibition at Munch Gallery with Pierre Botardo (US), David Hochbaum (US) and Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen (DK). This exhibit is on view from January 8 – February 5, 2012
