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Ferdinand Ahm Krag: Heavenly Mud
19 August – 24 September 2011

SOD Space of Drawings glæder sig til at byde velkommen til Heavenly Mud, en soloudstilling af Ferdinand Ahm Krag.

I en række helt nye værker åbner Ferdinand Ahm Krag op for en refleksion over de størst tænkelige emner; nemlig tid, rum og konstruktion. Til dette formål har han opbygget en forunderlig og kompleks billedverden, bestående af en mange facetteret collageteknik. Som at skrælle tapetet af i en gammel bygning synes vi næsten også i Ferdinand Ahm Krags billeder lag for lag at kunne afdække et rum af liv og dets betydning.
Via op-art’ens formelle nærmest meditative gentagelse af den lige streg tegnet fladt over papiret opstår et detaljeret mulighedsrum af nærmest futuristiske arkitekturer, som igen leder os videre ind i billederne til et rum bestående af acetone overførte digitale mikroskopier af plantefrø og biologiske celler. I dette faktiske naturvidenskabelige miljø skaber Ferdinand Ahm Krag igen en abstrakt dimension, der synes at konkretisere uendeligheden mellem mikro- og makrokosmos. Skalaen i disse værker er ubestemmelig, idet den antyder såvel åbne, uendelige vidder som mikroskopiske partikelstørrelser. Det er billedlige abstraktioner og projektioner af enhver art og størrelse, der fremstår som science-fiction lignende formationer i en utopisk vægtløs verden.

Ferdinand Ahm Krag er født i 1977 og uddannet fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi i 2006. Han er udover udstillingen Heavenly Mud også aktuel med to andre udstillinger: Final Instructions på IMO, som kan ses frem til 27. August, og Esbjerg Kunstmuseum viser soloudstillingen Waves over Graves frem til 4. September.

Ferdinand Ahm Krag: Heavenly Mud
19 August – 24 September 2011

SOD Space of Drawings is proud to present Heavenly Mud, a solo exhibition featuring works by Ferdinand Ahm Krag.

In a series of new works Ferdinand Ahm Krag creates an opportunity for reflection of some of the greatest conceivable topics, namely time, space and construction.
Using a multifaceted collage technique, he composes a both wonderful and complex world of images, like peeling back layers of wallpaper in an old building, Ferdinand Ahm Krag’s photos reveal to us a living space and its significance within the image, layer by layer .
Through “op-art’s” formal and almost meditative repetitive action, the straight line drawn flatly over the paper, creates a detailed range of possibilities. Within this space it is almost as if the artist creates futuristic architecture, the eye is lead further into the image, to a space within a space; digitally transfered acetone microscopic copies of seeds and biological cells.
In this scientifically inspired environment Ferdinand Ahm Krag creates a fictional and abstract dimension which seems to solidify an infinity between the micro- and macrocosmos. Scale in these works is indeterminate, in the sense that both open and endless spacial expanses and microscopic particle sizes are suggested simultaneously.
The differently shaped and sized pictorial abstractions stand out, like science-fiction formations within a weightless utopian world.

Born in 1977 Ferdinand Ahm Krag graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 2006. Heavenly Mud is shown simultaneously with two other exhibitions, Final Instructions to the IMO, which can be seen until the 27 August, and solo exhibition Waves of Graves shown at Esbjerg art museum until the fourth of September.