PRESS RELEASE

Works on Paper –
Dame Darcy, Neil Farber, Marcel Dzama and Jacquelyn Tough.

At Stalke Gallery we have never tried to conceal our great passion for works on paper, and with our second show in our new space at Vesterbrogade 184, which is titled Works on Paper – Dame Darcy, Neil Farber, Marcel Dzama and Jacquelyn Tough, we will continue our long tradition of exhibiting art on paper.

The four artists in the show have been chosen by the gallerist Richard Heller from California. Besides the medium, the four artists share a combination of distorted pop sensibility and a dreaming, often nightmarish imagination. The illustrator, doll crafter, musician, and painter Dame Darcy has created the comic book series "Meat Cake," which is a collection of "frightful fairytales," as she herself puts it. For this show, she will exhibit original drawings from "Meat Cake."

Neil Farber and Marcel Dzama are both part of the "The Royal Art Lodge," based in Winnipeg, Canada, and have exhibited their elegant and yet mysterious small-scale drawings internationally. In their choice of motifs, such as superheroes, bears, birds, vixens, and half-human creatures, the two share common interests, but at the same time, both Farber and Dzama come forth with a unique line.

Jacquelyn Tough works with watercolor drawings that explore childhood as a place and a time filled with myths and fantasies, which continues to influence you after you have become an adult.

PRESS RELEASE

Stalke Gallery inaugurates its new project space with
"Every day – is a new day"

• an installation of paintings by Simon Grimm.

As part of its new location at Vesterbrogade 184, Stalke Gallery will open a new project space where we will continue our long tradition of focusing on the younger generations on the art scene. The first project will be an installation of paintings by Simon Grimm, who will also participate in this year’s exit show at Kunstforeningen. In the last couple of years, Simon Grimm has exhibited in the Copenhagen area in group shows such as MuteBoX at Charlottenborg and At the butcher – down in the basement at Store Strandstræde. Last fall, he and Eske Kath contributed to Roar at the Zoo with a stable of jars filled with leaves of cabbage, and the year before, he and Jesper Just took art to the streets with their poster project Agitpop. As a comment to the continuous commercialization of public space, they posted non-commercial, but politically and ethically conscious posters in seven Danish harbor towns.

In Stalke Gallery’s project space, Simon Grimm will present a series of new paintings, which reference familiar everyday experiences. But at the same time, they hint at a latent absurdity, ambiguity, and a feeling of misplacement. Grimm’s friend, artist Elsebeth Jørgensen, has described his painting in the following way:

In Stalke Gallery’s project space, Simon Grimm will present a series of new paintings, which reference familiar everyday experiences. But at the same time, they hint at a latent absurdity, ambiguity, and a feeling of misplacement. Grimm’s friend, artist Elsebeth Jørgensen, has described his painting in the following way:

"The personal story is connected to signs and traditions, and a distorted everyday poetry that stimulates our imagination arises. Grand gestures and pleasing of the eyes are avoided. Instead, Grimm curiously explores the conceptual moment and movement between cornea and the mind."