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In colorful canvases, Cecilie Norgaard’s conceptual oil paintings humorously tease out the hierarchical highs and lows produced by contemporary society.
If oil painting was once a cultural cornerstone in glorifying the upper class, in Norgaard’s new painting series, produced for O—Overgaden, she insists on flipping this narrative, instead focusing on mundane, everyday objects. Colored pencils, numbers, and letters; piggy banks, cars, clocks and trucks crash, repeat, or multiply in the paintings, collectively creating a tongue-in-cheek, absurdist universe mixing school tools with money and protestant (time) pressure.
Part of a circular alphabet, each of Norgaard’s individual motifs becomes a parcel in a wider ensemble of recirculated figures, bleeding from one painting into another. The motifs are centrally placed and stage-lit on darkened backgrounds, as scenes suspended from context. Jointly, the images seem to form an inventory of working- class baseline tools turned...More
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In colorful canvases, Cecilie Norgaard’s conceptual oil paintings humorously tease out the hierarchical highs and lows produced by contemporary society.
If oil painting was once a cultural cornerstone in glorifying the upper class, in Norgaard’s new painting series, produced for O—Overgaden, she insists on flipping this narrative, instead focusing on mundane, everyday objects. Colored pencils, numbers, and letters; piggy banks, cars, clocks and trucks crash, repeat, or multiply in the paintings, collectively creating a tongue-in-cheek, absurdist universe mixing school tools with money and protestant (time) pressure.
Part of a circular alphabet, each of Norgaard’s individual motifs becomes a parcel in a wider ensemble of recirculated figures, bleeding from one painting into another. The motifs are centrally placed and stage-lit on darkened backgrounds, as scenes suspended from context. Jointly, the images seem to form an inventory of working- class baseline tools turned...More
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