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Louise Hindsgavl: Untitled, 2019. Glazed porcelain, 35 x 35 x 35 cm.
Porcelain is central in Louise Hindsgavl’s artistic practice. Through the years, she has refined, developed, and challenged the media in several different directions. As a material porcelain is connected to traditions of arts and craftmanship. Especially the meticulous small figures with their shiny surfaces and graceful motives are well-known. Here, Hindsgavl’s works divert from the traditional expression. The artist’s porcelain objects are not lovely or adorable but rather grotesque. Whether it is the smooth, white porcelain, Hindsgavl presents or if it is glazed or with applied attributes such as fur, metal or string, the figures take the same thematic turning point. They become an abstraction over the known. They trick the viewer; at first glance they seem innocent but with a second look they unfold and reveal an underworld of ugly scenarios.
Louise Hindsgavl (1973, DK) graduated from The School of Design in Kolding in 1999. Hindsgavl’s works are part of the collections at Minneapolis Institute of Art, US; Museum of Art and Design, US; Nationalmuseum Stockholm, SE; Victoria and Albert Museum, UK; Design Museum Denmark, DK and Trapholt, DK, among others. She has exhibited worldwide at e.g., Galerie NeC, FR; BICC, FR; Nancy Margolis Gallery, US; Randers Museum of Art, DK, and Esbjerg Museum of Art, DK. Hinds-gavl has received several prices and grants such as The Danish Arts Foundation’s 3-year work grant and Anne Marie Telmanyi’s Honorary grant.
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