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Gnomon is the title of Frederik Exner’s first institutional solo exhibition in Denmark. As we enter the new year, the Danish artist zooms in on something not immediately comprehensible or explicable. The exhibition revolves around a premonition, a sense of an impending, imminent upheaval in an already tense world. At Tranen, viewers are invited to scrutinise some creatures that are clearly also scrutinising something that viewers cannot discern what is.
In the centre of the exhibition space at Tranen, nine strange animals of an unknown species line up and crouch, each on its own box. All seem to direct their attention to something about to occur. Before them hangs one box more, housing a structure of bones centred around yet another box, which contains nothing, however. The herd is alert and on the scent of something, but a small space in front of them is empty, like a grave or a fold or a chest. They seem to detect a change but still await its...More
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Gnomon is the title of Frederik Exner’s first institutional solo exhibition in Denmark. As we enter the new year, the Danish artist zooms in on something not immediately comprehensible or explicable. The exhibition revolves around a premonition, a sense of an impending, imminent upheaval in an already tense world. At Tranen, viewers are invited to scrutinise some creatures that are clearly also scrutinising something that viewers cannot discern what is.
In the centre of the exhibition space at Tranen, nine strange animals of an unknown species line up and crouch, each on its own box. All seem to direct their attention to something about to occur. Before them hangs one box more, housing a structure of bones centred around yet another box, which contains nothing, however. The herd is alert and on the scent of something, but a small space in front of them is empty, like a grave or a fold or a chest. They seem to detect a change but still await its...More
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