We take a quick look at the artists and their works featured at ARKEN Museum
based in Copenhagen:
The renowned artist duo, Thukral & Tagra. has made the installation, titled 'The
Escape! Resume/Reset’ especially for the exhibition. You step into a
kitschy, poppish universe with pastel-colored carpets, graphically patterned
wallpaper, a chandelier and paintings in loud advertising colors.
On the floor
stands a group of rebuilt airplane seats upholstered in Indian materials, which
you can sit in. There are cabin luggage and iPads with entertainment for the
flight in the back of the seat in front. In a style all their own, the two have created a domesticated airliner.
They
invite you on a mental journey where you can dream your way to exotic climes in
the safety of the sofa. The work is a game, a kind of dream machine inspired by
the longing to get away of young Indians, but for us it is a setting for
meditating about how we live our lives between the local and the global.
Mumbai-based artist Jitish Kallat's billboard painting, titled ‘Allegory
of the Endless Morning’ was specially created for the exhibition. It takes its point
of departure in a panoramic photograph that he took one morning in front of a
local railway station in Mumbai. In the painting a myriad of destinies is
portrayed. Do they live in hope, pain or joy?
Mumbai is one of the world’s largest, most densely populated cities, with a
population of around 21 million if you count the suburbs. In certain neighborhoods
around 120,000 people live per sq. km. In Denmark’s most densely populated
area, Frederiksberg Municipality, just under 11,000 people live per sq. km.
Every sixth person in the word is Indian. As the artist states; "The
highly populated city of Mumbai, where I live, is almost a theater where the
codes of daily existence are pushed to the extreme and this continually
percolates my practice."
(Image and information courtesy: ARKON)
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