| The poetry of the moment By Tom Jørgnsen Kunstavisen. januar 2002 Double Paramount. Susanne Ottesen. 2002 To have a show at Galleri Susanne Ottesen, is for a young artist the same as getting on the team at Manchester United. many have the dream, only a few has it realized. It has now happened for Jasper Sebastian Stürup (b.1969), and when you look at his exhibition, in the attractive rooms, you understand why. Stürup combines a sensible and precise line with a radical sense of different materials build in beauty - all held together by a sovereign overview. Seduction with the exhibition tittle "Double Paramount" he refers to the grand view, both in the fact of the word and in the esthetic philosophic considerations - an attempt to hold the breathless and the supernatural, the sublime moment, where you loose your breath and overlook wile being seduced into an other sphere. In short everything that art can do with it's wordless and sensible qualities. The way stürup does all this must be said to be breaking new ground, Ink-drawings of strict geometric shelve systems, cobweb, antler, polar-bear rugs and beautiful women in a sea of spray-paint, silver-glitter and other cheep materials. Over and under the white slick surface there is of the paper, there is cut and scratched patterns of flames, waving arabesques, fractals, drips and circle round "Gernes spots", wile sieving paint devolves the clear contour. A row of organic fiberglass sculptures are repeated in the drawings as a surreal threatening foreign objects. The beauty of the unpredictably Order and chaos, coincident and structure, building and breaking down, beauty and brutism creates flowing passes in these drawings, that takes the breath away from the viewer, because the embers with life. In other words: we are dealing with an artist that works extremely strict and at the same time gives space for the beauty of the unpredictable. an artist that has realized that, that he rather will work with experimentation and the process oriented shaky ground than the more finished "merchant" concert that many younger artist have settled with. For Jasper Sebastian Stürup it's the ongoing and stubborn work with the understanding of the single materials thats more important them making the "perfect exhibition". And there is every reason to salute that. |
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