Tjorg Douglas Beer - Misantrophenkarussell
29 Jan - 22 Feb 2009
ALP/Peter Bergman is proud to present Tjorg Douglas Beers first solo exhibition in Sweden.
The works of Tjorg Douglas Beer often revolves around the themes of politics, social events and religion. His imagery juxtaposes sarcasm with seriousness, in order to portray the absurd character of reality.
For this exhibition Tjorg Douglas Beer has created an installation of scupltures called Misanthropenkarussell, as well as a series of new paintings. This exhibition portrays an intensified media created reality, drawing on the darkness of man's soul to feed people with anxiety and fear ever more rapidly and instensly. In this foreboding media climate he tries to find a line between the horrific and fragile beauty. The deformed sculptures which constitute the misanthropic carousel (painted copper and aluminium) sketches an iconic image of our own era, wheras the paintings evoke our past.
Tjorg Douglas Beer presents a dualistic view of the world. His works radiate the energy captured by the competing and conflicting forces which dominate our world. In the same manner, we as viewers are forced to confront theses expressions - as if they were subjects of their own - and through our own ideas reflect them and give them meaning. Tjorg Douglas Beer finds a tension in this polarization, very much like the one we are exposed to in our own lives.
The Forgotten Bar Project
Tjorg Douglas Beer is also the initiator of GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN and has now also put together a selection of 18 artists to introduce The Forgotten Bar Project to Stockholm. The artists are Julieta Aranda, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tobias Bernstrup, Andreas Golder, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, Dionisis Kavallieratos, John Kleckner, Alicja Kwade, Annika Larsson, Joep van Liefland, Sara Lunden, Sifis Lykasis, Stefan Mörsch, RothStauffenberg, Alexandros Tzannis, Malte Urbschat and Costa Vece.
The works of Tjorg Douglas Beer often revolves around the themes of politics, social events and religion. His imagery juxtaposes sarcasm with seriousness, in order to portray the absurd character of reality.
For this exhibition Tjorg Douglas Beer has created an installation of scupltures called Misanthropenkarussell, as well as a series of new paintings. This exhibition portrays an intensified media created reality, drawing on the darkness of man's soul to feed people with anxiety and fear ever more rapidly and instensly. In this foreboding media climate he tries to find a line between the horrific and fragile beauty. The deformed sculptures which constitute the misanthropic carousel (painted copper and aluminium) sketches an iconic image of our own era, wheras the paintings evoke our past.
Tjorg Douglas Beer presents a dualistic view of the world. His works radiate the energy captured by the competing and conflicting forces which dominate our world. In the same manner, we as viewers are forced to confront theses expressions - as if they were subjects of their own - and through our own ideas reflect them and give them meaning. Tjorg Douglas Beer finds a tension in this polarization, very much like the one we are exposed to in our own lives.
The Forgotten Bar Project
Tjorg Douglas Beer is also the initiator of GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN and has now also put together a selection of 18 artists to introduce The Forgotten Bar Project to Stockholm. The artists are Julieta Aranda, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Tobias Bernstrup, Andreas Golder, Gregor Hildebrandt, Christian Jankowski, Dionisis Kavallieratos, John Kleckner, Alicja Kwade, Annika Larsson, Joep van Liefland, Sara Lunden, Sifis Lykasis, Stefan Mörsch, RothStauffenberg, Alexandros Tzannis, Malte Urbschat and Costa Vece.