On the way to something great
By Karsten R.S. Ifversen
Politiken. 16. januar 2002
Double Paramount. Susanne Ottesen. 2002

The skin of the polar-bear, burning and dripping speakers, discos and hovering bars, beds, boxes, lots of boxes, spider webs and glimpses of bodies. These are the elements in Jasper Sebastian Stürup's ink drawings, collages and white sculptures, where light harted and depression are intertwined in a clean style casually in the melon-colony of the youth. Under the steady suffuse the harts are beating energetic to the rhythm of the music in the paper-cuts with glitter and spray-paint. Behind the dazed consciousness of youth parties lies boredom in hiding, not like the tiger, but as a hole in the drawing, as cobweb in the hovering interiors, made by boxes, that are parting like cells as in life lived - the life, that goes on and gets lost in the objects by Stürup, first and foremost in the record players and speakers, but also in the objects that are taken as liquid in the bar. And double exposed, on the polar-bear rug and under the blanket, lies an expatiation about getting lost in intimate plays of the body, one body slides over into the other.
In making drawings Stürup is gifted, his sense for the material and color are pronounced. He understands how to create modes with small means, and then set in with explosive contrasts, when the details becomes annoying. But as a designer his damn cool. The exhibition is well orchestrated from an uneven start zapping in materials over a concentrated white middle room, into a clear collared finale, that collects all the elements. All the paper works are neatly framed in wood, the danger of his talent will be sacrificed on the altar of fashion is present. I don't wish him a too fast success, he's to promising for that.