Daniel Buchholz

HENRIK OLESEN / DANH VO
Master-Slave Dialectic
2 September - 22 October, 2011

The collaborative exhibition of Danh Vo and Henrik Olesen consists of new works that move around an
understanding of the idea of Freedom and Bondage as a shattered cliché. The work of Danh Vo examines
the theme of one exclusive cultural image of “liberty”. Five identical blueprints of a sheer plan of the head of
the Statue of Liberty rendered for the occasion of its first comprehensive restauration in 1984 taken from the
Ellis Island Immigration Library are covered with gold leaf.
Each of these five identical blueprints has an individual title:
“Obey Your Thirst”, 2011
Gold leaf on blueprint in perspex box
70 x 105 cm / 77 x 112 x 3,5 cm
“Oh What A Feeling” 2011
Gold leaf on blueprint in perspex box
70 x 105 cm / 77 x 112 x 3,5 cm
“Live Free Or Die”, 2011
Gold leaf on blueprint in perspex box
70 x 105 cm / 77 x 112 x 3,5 cm
“Fly Like An Eagle”, 2011
Gold leaf on blueprint in perspex box
70 x 105 cm / 77 x 112 x 3,5 cm
“Impossible Is Nothing” 2011
Gold leaf on blueprint in perspex box
70 x 105 cm / 77 x 112 x 3,5 cm
The work of Henrik Olesen portrays fragmentation, repetition and dependancy. An electrical cord has
repetitively been cast/reproduced following the course of its running, unconceiled and laid on top of the walls
and is installed in different locations throughout the antiquarian bookstore and the gallery:
Cast 1, 2011
Polyurethan cast, 404 cm
Cast 2, 2011
Polyurethan cast, 543 cm
Cast 3, 2011
Polyurethan cast, 300 cm
Cast 4, 2011
Polyurethan cast, 275 cm & 338 cm
Cast 5, 2011
Polyurethan cast, 631 cm
Cast 6, 2011
Polyurethan cast, 310 cm