Thomas Fleron
14 Jun - 19 Jul 2008
© Thomas Fleron
Player 8000 C, 2008
Curtains with cross stitch embroidery
Two parts, each: 233 x 228 cm
Player 8000 C, 2008
Curtains with cross stitch embroidery
Two parts, each: 233 x 228 cm
THOMAS FLERON
It is a pleasure to invite you to the opening of two solo shows in the gallery on Friday June 13th from 6-9 pm. The artist group A Kassen exhibits in the main space and Thomas Fleron’s show ”Det fede Læskur” is in the project space. Exhibition period is June 14th – July 19th.
Thomas Flerion’s show ”Det fede Læskur” presents objects, drawings and a cross stitched curtain with the text ”player 8000c”. His elegant and tactile objects are reminiscences of ritual symbols from tribal ceremonies, e.g. the barked cherry tree stick with inlaid sealskin which hangs on the wall from a thread. The works are both hermetically closed and interreferential, and yet they question historical and political issues such as why a language is forgotten, a population becomes extinct, a ritual is dropped. These questions are incorporated in a mixture of acquired knowledge and personal experience.
A modern penis case, constructed as a sheath of leather with one meter long fringes and an aluminum warship on top, is hanging on the wall. Poetic inscriptions on the ship function as a contrast to the humorous sheath and the references to boys’ toys, masculine trial of strength, and war feverish display of power. The works’ decadent look and choice of material comment on cultural and historical power relations.
Thomas Fleron (b. 1972) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 2000.
It is a pleasure to invite you to the opening of two solo shows in the gallery on Friday June 13th from 6-9 pm. The artist group A Kassen exhibits in the main space and Thomas Fleron’s show ”Det fede Læskur” is in the project space. Exhibition period is June 14th – July 19th.
Thomas Flerion’s show ”Det fede Læskur” presents objects, drawings and a cross stitched curtain with the text ”player 8000c”. His elegant and tactile objects are reminiscences of ritual symbols from tribal ceremonies, e.g. the barked cherry tree stick with inlaid sealskin which hangs on the wall from a thread. The works are both hermetically closed and interreferential, and yet they question historical and political issues such as why a language is forgotten, a population becomes extinct, a ritual is dropped. These questions are incorporated in a mixture of acquired knowledge and personal experience.
A modern penis case, constructed as a sheath of leather with one meter long fringes and an aluminum warship on top, is hanging on the wall. Poetic inscriptions on the ship function as a contrast to the humorous sheath and the references to boys’ toys, masculine trial of strength, and war feverish display of power. The works’ decadent look and choice of material comment on cultural and historical power relations.
Thomas Fleron (b. 1972) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 2000.