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Dissolving Boundaries, 
Solo exhibition, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen (2015)
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Excerpts from the press release:

Ditte Knus Tønnesen
Dissolving Boundaries
 

The borders between photography and painting become blurred in the works by Ditte Knus Tønnesen in the exhibition Dissolving Boundaries. Armed with her camera she travelles out into the wilderness to investigate man’s manipulation of the nordic nature. The structural changes in the landscape caused by the constant search for new ressources underlines the contrast between the natural and the manmade.

The dichotomy is expressed in Tønnesens work, where she by dealing in an abstract sense with the landscapes, detach fragments of the images whereby creating a distance between ourselves and our understanding of reality. This experience is supported by Tønnesen’s use of materials, where the photographs are displayed in ways not acustomed to the medium.

Sheets of bamboo, poplar, MDF and concrete are exposed to the liquid photographic emulsion, exceeding the regular confinements of the photograph, while at the same time creating a connection to the original materiality of the motif. The classical landscape painting is reinterpreted through her photographs, while simultaneously refering to the great nordic abstract painterly tradition.

/ Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen (2015)


Separated for a whole, ninety degrees
Photographic emulsion and varnish on bamboo sand red MDF
122 x 81,5, 122 x 50 cm, unique

In a blink of an eye, you change first I-II
Archival Inkjet print on metallic paper, framed, museum glass, 
47 x 39,9 cm, Ed. 5 + AP

Cast shadows
Photographic emulsion and varnish on MDF
199 x 109 x 78 cm, unique

Almighty, twice between primary
Photographic emulsion and varnish on bamboo
122 x  122, 119 x 103 cm, unique

Recollections, curvature retained
Photographic emulsion and varnish on green MDF and concrete
82 x 91 x 6,5 cm, unique

Sections for a sum
Photographic emulsion and varnish on bamboo and red MDF
79 x 40, 40 x 29,  26,5 x15 cm, unique

Mountain peak, downfall, zero
Photographic emulsion and varnish on concrete
40 x 29,5 x 7 cm, unique

Valley road, rise
Photographic emulsion and varnish on concrete
43 x 32 x 7 cm, unique


- All works are by Ditte Knus Tønnesen 2015. 
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Press

http://kopenhagen.dk/magasin/magazine-single/article/3-picks-uge-14/

http://kopenhagen.dk/magasin/magazine-single/article/jeg-vil-gerne-slaa-fast-at-fotografiet-som-medie-ikke-kun-er-bag-glas-og-ramme/​

​http://www.nordicexchange.net/ditte-knus-tonnesen-dissolving-boundaries/

http://kunsten.nu/journal/ditte-knus-toennesen-paa-gether-contemporary/​

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