Mikkel Carl: Truth is like Poetry
Mikkel Carl, who was educated from the Royal Danish Art Academy and has a BA in History of Ideas, is concerned with materiality, signs and scale.
His artistic practise, which often has a phenomenological approach, takes its point of departure from the space in which he exhibits. He is interested in the interaction between context and object, and how is affects our bodily experience of space. This applies not least in the case of Nikolaj Kunsthal, which is also the story of a place that has both housed reformer and bishop Hans Tausen and works by the artistic avantgarde movement Fluxus.
Illusionistic Mirror Disc
In the middle of the Lower Gallery – with 12 metres to the ceiling - Mikkel Carl will place a spectacular mirror disc. It is illusionistic in that acrylic mirror sheets have been scratched for the purpose and provided with fake greasy fingers. They are riveted and ’soldered’ together so that the construction looks confusingly like ravaged, chrome-plated steel. Things are not necessarily what they say they are. Therefore, everything may also be different.
Grand Opening: 25 May at 4-7 PM.
Where: Lower Gallery
When: 26 May – 30 July 2023
About Mikkel Carl
Mikkel Carl (born 1976) holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a Bachelor in the History of Ideas from Aarhus University. He is Vice Rector and Professor of Visual Arts and Exhibition Practice at The Funen Art Academy.
Mikkel Carl has exhibited at numerous art institutions and galleries around the world, and his installations, sculptural works, and paintings are part of the collections at Arken, HEART, ARoS, Randers Art Museum, and Esbjerg Art Museum.
Read more at mikkelcarl.com and jacobbjorngallery.com.
