Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”

11 December 2008 -
7 March 2009

opening reception on Thursday,
11 December, 7-9 pm

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Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
D-10719 Berlin
post@galeriebuchholz.de
www.galeriebuchholz.de

 

Henrik Olesen
“How do I make myself a body?”

 

11. Dezember 2008 bis 31. Januar 2009
Eröffnung am Donnerstag, dem 11. Dezember, 19-21 Uhr

 

Henrik Olesen (*1967 Esbjerg, DK, lebt in Berlin) zeigt in seiner vierten Einzelausstellung in der Galerie Daniel Buchholz unter dem Titel “How do I make myself a body?” neue Collagen, Objekte und räumliche Interventionen, die sich mit der Idee eines Portraits, dem Konstrukt einer Biografie, auseinandersetzen. Als ein phantomhaftes Subjekt wählt Henrik Olesen den britischen Mathematiker Alan Turing (1912-1954). Die spezifische Biografie Alan Turings bildet dabei aber nur den Ausgangspunkt, für abstraktere Überlegungen zur Konstruktion von Identität und Körperlichkeit sowie zu Status, Form und Repräsentation von Information. Wie in einem Koordinatensystem wird anhand von Textfragmenten, Bildern und Objekten ein vielgestaltiges Profil einer potentiellen Figur entwickelt, das mit Zitaten beispielsweise Guillaume Apollinaires, William S. Burroughs, Antonin Artauds, Man Rays und Francis Picabias weniger ein einheitliches Wesen zu erschaffen sucht, als vielmehr dessen Fragmentiertheit und Konstruiertheit auszustellen.

 

In den letzten Jahren hat Henrik Olesen an einer umfassenden ikonographischen Recherche zu homo-sozialen und homoerotischen Repräsentationen in Bildern der Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte gearbeitet, die er 2007 unter dem Titel “Some Gay-Lesbian Artists and/or Artists relevant to Homo-Social Culture I-VII” im Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich ausgestellt hat und die im soeben erschienen Katalog “Some Faggy Gestures” (JRP Ringier & Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich 2008) dokumentiert ist, den wir während der Ausstellungseröffnung präsentieren.

Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
D-10719 Berlin
post@galeriebuchholz.de
www.galeriebuchholz.de

 

Henrik Olesen
“How do I make myself a body?”

 

11 December 2008 to 31 January 2009
opening reception on Thursday, 11 December, 7-9 pm

 

Under the title “How do I make myself a body?” Henrik Olesen (b. 1967 in Esbjerg, Denmark, lives in Berlin) in his fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Daniel Buchholz shows new collages, objects, and spatial interventions which investigate the idea of a portrait, the construct of a biography. Henrik Olesen has chosen the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912 - 1954) as a  phantom  subject. Alan Turing’s actual biography only provides the point of departure for more abstract reflections on both the construction of identity and physicality, and on the status, form and the representation of information. Using text fragments, pictures and objects as if in a system of coordinates, a diverse profile of a potential figure is built up, that uses quotations from Guillaume Apollinaire, William S. Burroughs, Antonin Artaud, Man Ray and Francis Picabia, less in order to assemble a unified being, more to exhibit its fragmentary and constructed nature.

 

In recent years Henrik Olesen has been working on a comprehensive iconographic research into homo-social and homo-erotic representations in art and cultural history, which he showed in 2007 in the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art in Zürich under the title: “Some Gay-Lesbian Artists and/or Artists relevant to Homo-Social Culture I-VII”, that is documented in the catalogue “Some Faggy Gestures” (JRP Ringier & Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich 2008) and which we will present at the opening reception.

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“Imitation / Enigma”, 2008
box, adhesive tape, rope,
padding material, blanket
60 x 100 x 30 cm
&
“Apple (Ghost)”, 2008
computer, plastic foil
50 x 40 x 60 cm
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“Schraubenzieher”, 2008
screw driver
23 x 2,5 x 2,5 cm

Henrik Olesen

“Agent (shoe)”, 2008
man’s shoe, leather
10 x 27 x 9,5 cm
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“2,78 x 3,98m”, 2008
adhesive tape
278 x 398 cm
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“Some Illustrations to the life of Alan Turing”, 2008
16 computer printouts on newsprint
each 33 x 48 cm
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“Some Illustrations to the life of Alan Turing”, 2008
16 computer printouts on newsprint
each 33 x 48 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“Some Illustrations to the life of Alan Turing”, 2008
16 computer printouts on newsprint
each 33 x 48 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“Some Illustrations to the life of Alan Turing”, 2008
16 computer printouts on newsprint
each 33 x 48 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“Some Illustrations to the life of Alan Turing”, 2008
16 computer printouts on newsprint
each 33 x 48 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“Spoon (6)”, 2008
spoon
2 x 14 x 3,5 cm
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“Portrait d’un imbécile”, 2008
wooden laths, felt pen
385 x 9,5 x 5,5 cm
detail
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“1 + 3 Schrauben”, 2008
metal screws
each 4 x 0,7 cm

Henrik Olesen

“4 Plakate”, 2008
4 computer printouts on newsprint
each 48 x 33 cm

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”, 2008
19 computer collages behind glass
partly worked over with felt pen / ball point pen
each 29,7 x 21 cm
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”, 2008
19 computer collages behind glass
partly worked over with felt pen / ball point pen
each 29,7 x 21 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”, 2008
19 computer collages behind glass
partly worked over with felt pen / ball point pen
each 29,7 x 21 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”, 2008
19 computer collages behind glass
partly worked over with felt pen / ball point pen
each 29,7 x 21 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”, 2008
19 computer collages behind glass
partly worked over with felt pen / ball point pen
each 29,7 x 21 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”, 2008
19 computer collages behind glass
partly worked over with felt pen / ball point pen
each 29,7 x 21 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”, 2008
19 computer collages behind glass
partly worked over with felt pen / ball point pen
each 29,7 x 21 cm
detail

Henrik Olesen

“How do I make myself a body?”
installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin 2008