A KASSEN

March 15th 2007

A Kassen is an artist group consisting of Christian Bretton-Meyer (1976), Morten Steen Hebsgaard (1977), Søren Petersen (1977) og Tommy Petersen (1975).

You can look at A Kassen’s way of working as a combination of humorous, aesthetic and abstract concepts. An example is the work Drip from the exhibition The Known and the Unknown, Nicolai Wallner 2006, where an artificial water damage in the ceiling is dripping white wine into an immobile man’s glass. Another recent example is from the spring exhibition at Charlottenborg where you as a visitor could get a glass of champagne served by champagne girls. When leaving the Charlottenborg exhibition building, you risked being hit by a champagne bottle cork coming flying out of a window. In this way A Kassen plays with the work and creates humorous situations for the visitors who have the opportunity to participate themselves.

The artists from A Kassen are the first artists who have been invited to produce a complete exhibition for all seven exhibition cases at KBH kunsthal. An exhibition where fantastic, enchanting and cunning experiences appear more or less subtle.

A Kassen has chosen to use the seven exhibition cases as seven individual spaces. Each work unfolding in one of the cases is perceived as an individual exhibition space where A Kassen has worked with and according to the architecture of the arthall. At the exhibition you can see more works where A Kassen conceptually makes use of changing small everyday objects into spatial starters for an experience.

One of the works is 1+1, 2007, where an exhibition case has been disassembled and afterwards put into one of the other cases. Through this distortion of the shape and architecture, your common perception of the exhibition case is changed radically.
In another work Moving kunsthal, 2007, a copy of the demolished exhibition case surprisingly came running up the avenue to the Krabbesholm courtyard.
In a third work Hiding Graduate, an American graduation cap is dropped on the case floor with clear reference to the Russian Suprematism and Kazimir Malevich’s first monochrome painting Black Square, 1923.
Also Tequila Sunrise, 2007, refers to art history. The work reeks of youthful festivity with its small rectangular aquarium filled with Tequila Sunrise but it also refers unmistakably to Barnett Newman’s sublime painting.

List of works:
1+1, 2007
Moving kunsthal, 2007
Tequila Sunrise, 2007
Brilleglas, 2007
Kattelem, 2007
Cat, 2007

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