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Christian Finne: When A Child Is Taught To Kill
17 February – 24 March 2012

Det er med glæde, at SOD Space of Drawings kan byde velkommen til en soloudstilling af Christian Finne.

Under titlen When A Child Is Taught To Kill, lægger Christian Finne tonen an for læsningen af seks 100 x 70 cm. store, helt nye tegninger udført til udstillingen. De er alle udført med farveblyant på sort karton, og viser en enlig figur som hovedelement for tegningernes komposition. Med denne serie tegninger bevæger Christian Finne sig længere ind i et rent formelt billedunivers udgjort af farvede mønstre af forskellig holistisk karakter, hvor alle elementer er tænkt som psykedeliske og eksistentielle gestalter.

Således søger Christian Finne endnu engang med besværgende fagter i rummet at påberåbe sig opmærksomhed omkring den lære, han i sine efterhånden 20 år lange monomane, ja man kan vel sige maniske, interesse for eksotiske alkaloider og det komplekse samspil mellem plante og sind, som han har gjort til sin mærkesag.

For hos Christian Finne handler det ikke blot om de ellers meget dekorative mønstre, men snarere om at percipere og erfare en hel levet verden, som kan findes i det psykedeliske. Det er udvidelsen af bevidstheden, der optager ham – og hans billedverden fungerer på lige vis.

Christian Finne er født i 1974 i Danmark, og er uddannet fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi i 2005.

Christian Finne: When A Child Is Taught To Kill
17 February – 24 March 2012

SOD Space of Drawings is pleased to welcome you to a solo exhibition by Christian Finne.

Under the title When A Child Is Taught To Kill, Christian Finne set the tone for the interpretation of six 100 x 70 cm. large, brand new drawings, created for the exhibition. Each image is made using colouring pencil on black cardboard, a lone figure featuring as the key element of the drawings’ composition threading the series together. In the works, Christian Finne travels into a purely formal pictorial universe made up of coloured patterns of various holistic nature in which all elements are intended as psychedelic and existential gestalts.

Thus Christian Finne seeks with the spellbinding gestures in the space once more to focus attention on the dogma which, given his already twenty-year, monomaniac, well, it is no exaggeration to say manic, interest in exotic alkaloids and the intricate interplay between plant and mind, he has made his favourite cause.

For Christian Finne, it is not just about the otherwise highly decorative patterns but rather, be able to perceive and experience a whole living world, which can be found in the psychedelic. It is the expansion of consciousness which occupies him – which is reflected just as succesfully in the imagery.

Christian Finne was born in 1974 in Denmark, and graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2005.