20. juni -2. August

Forms in Progression
An exhibition about space, form and spaces in between

The Round Tower in Copenhagen June 20 – August 2, 2009

Nine artists are tying antiquity and Islamic art together with the digital world in an exhibition where jewelry, ceramics, lighting design, music, sculptures and textiles all serve to illuminate the field of potential situated between the fine arts and the practical arts, which are converging in one joint total installation.  

The exhibition is on view in The Round Tower in Copenhagen from June 20 until August 2, 2009.  

Modernity in the form of a dialogue with antiquity

The artists behind Forms in Progression are all working with forms that extend distinct lines running across different epochs and expressions and leading directly back to antiquity. The sculpture may be cast in plastic and the carpet’s pattern might have emerged on a computer screen, but the forms’ stringent geometric composition points back to Cycladic and archaic sculptures, Greek columns, ceramic plates and urns with their origins in both ancient Greece and Islamic art. 

The lighting design and a completely new score supplement and enhance the experience

For the designers of antiquity, the light was very important; they used light in a very deliberate manner in their visual expressions. This way of playing with the light has also inspired the artists in Forms in Progression, where lighting designer Claus Asp will illuminate the exhibition in a manner that simultaneously enhances the artworks’ expression and underscores the connection between the space and the artworks in the Round Tower’s exhibition hall. Composer Erik Bach’s composition, created especially for the exhibition, has similarly been conceived as a supplement and enhancement of the space, form and intermediate spaces in Forms in Progression. 

With its source in Athens

In 1995, The Danish Institute at Athens invited sculptor and artistic designer Jannik Seidelin to arrange an exhibition with Danish designers. This exhibition came to pave the way for a subsequent series of similar exhibitions, in Denmark and abroad, with a changing roster of artists, all of whom were gathering inspiration from the Mediterranean countries. Forms in Progression is the final link in this chain of exhibitions; the show is being arranged by weaver Pia Jensen and Jannik Seidelin.

Participating artists:

Lighting designer Claus Asp, composer Erik Bach, goldsmith Hanne Behrens, ceramist Karin Hougaard, weaver Pia Jensen, ceramist Jane Reumert, textile artist Karina Nielsen Rios, sculptor and artistic designer Jannik Seidelin and textile artist Grethe Sørensen.

The exhibition has made possible through the support of:
Augustinus Fonden, L.F. Foghts Fond, Knud Højgaards Fond and Københavns Billedkunstudvalg.


Time & place
Forms in Progression
June 20 – August 2, 2009
The Round Tower in Copenhagen
Købmagergade 52A
DK-1150 Copenhagen K

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Links to press photos:
Sculptor and artistic designer Jannik Seidelin
Weaver Pia Jensen
Ceramist Karin Hougaard
Ceramist Jane Reumert

For further information:
Pia Jensen
Telephone: +45 3034 1696
pia@piavaever.dk

Jannik Seidelin
Telephone: +45 8620 9306
js@dskd.dk