CURRENT
ANDERS BONNESEN
The practice of Everyday Life
September 27 – November 2, 2024
Viewing room:
Knut Rasmussen
The Practice of Everyday Life
September 27 – November 2, 2024
JOIN US FOR THE OPENING ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27 AT 17:00 – 19:00!
In Anders Bonnesen's new exhibition, The Practice of Everyday Life, SPECTA is packed with an overwhelming number of everyday objects, things which are ordinary and immediately recognizable. Or maybe... Things we intuitively recognize from our everyday life, Anders Bonnesen has modified, halved and doubled, and in that way he shows us how undramatic everyday actions – life itself - can sometimes be a difficult and confronting exercise.
Bicycle, hat, flower, underpants, chair, table, bookcase, ladder, bicycle pump, candlestick, wheel, boat horn, wine glass, fly swatter, glasses, book, sandals, rubber boots, rope, apple, spade, rake, broom, pancake, saw, ruler, lamp, mirror, socks, mittens, snowball, tennis racket, table tennis bat, screwdriver, umbrella, socket, bucket, watering can, guitar, drum... The objects in The Practice of Everyday Life could appear in a memory game or next to their initial letter in a schoolbook in kindergarten. Even the smallest child recognizes them and can name them, and we use them so often, that we don't give it a second thought. But in Bonnesen's version, the objects of the picture lottery have been made unstable, they have become a textbook of misunderstandings. They are not just pictures and not just words. They are all things we use, wear, etc.
In the exhibition, the objects are presented as we most often see them: to grab by reflex and without further thought, or perhaps just left without putting them in their place. They are available.
The word practice in the exhibition title can be understood not only as practice, as acting and exercising something, but also as practicing something, according to the dictionary: repeating an activity to improve one's skills in that activity. And the repeated activity can be understood as life.
Anders Bonnesen: Sweeper, 2024.
In SPECTA’s Viewing room, Bonnesen has invited KNUT RASMUSSEN to install an exhibition, which also has the title The Practice of Everyday Life. Knut Rasmussen's exhibition shows a number of drawings, gouaches and objects, which are about not just accepting handed down truths, but on the contrary asking questions about these, and Knut Rasmussen's works reach out into the public space. In the works by Knut Rasmussen the production of art becomes an everyday act of resistance against the statements and attitudes we constantly encounter in the surrounding culture.
Image shows:
Knut Rasmussen: Civilized Disobedience, 2023.
