Fold bend stretch

Extract is the name of a new annual exhibition at Gl. Strand in Copenhagen. The exhibition shows finely selected works of young artists from different danish and european art academys. It consists of fresh new perspectives on contemporary art and the reasoning for choosing the artists was based on the artworks consistency and outlook as a whole.

Sandra Havlecik did some amazing minimalistic optical works, that gives the participant an interesting colourexperience. She was also chosing by an international jury as the winner of the Extract-prize which includes 50.000DKK.

Lovely splash of neon

Back of the massive paperpiece.

Folded piece of paper, where the colours reflects in the curved, folded mirror placed on the floor in front of the paperpiece.

The artworks by the danish organbuilding student Ea Borre was particularly intriguing. The artworks that are displayed at Extract consists of three minor pieces. They are all music organs constructed from white cardboard and motorized by small electrical devices. It has a nice simplistic feel to it and the participants ability to see and hear the motor and the construction as well as the melody it plays gives the installation and the objects an analog quality even though it obviously isn’t.

There is a temporal aspect of the work which is determined by the materials used for the constructions of the artworks. The properties of the materials, cardboard and paper and time limits the mechanical function of the objects as they at some point reach their limit in regard to the movement and the pressure of the motions. The machines is controlled by timers that regularly turn them on and off. If the machines does not turn on, the machines functioning limit has been reached.

The video below shows a piece that Ea Borre did for Voks’s LP cover for Astra & Knyst

more on Ea Borre here