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Nicolas Krupp

Lone Haugaard Madsen

11. März – 30. April 2022

No beginning, no end

One could describe Lone Haugaard Madsen’s body of work as, a transformation of the avant-garde practice of the reproducible model, into an unlimited process of model- ling. A process which is inscribed by Lone in numbering her exhibitions and the on-going transformation of her objects and their arrangement.

The concept of modelling plays an important role in the classical tension between the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic, between visual and performative arts, between fine and applied arts, between individual and serial and/or installation work, as well as between the accomplished object and the seemingly unfinished production. Lone situates this tension in the dialogue between the post-minimalist idiom of performative sculpture and the post-conceptual treatment of painting as allegory. A dialogue, that one could relate to Eva Maria Stadler’s exhibition text (for the exhibition Raum#350 – Lystre at Galerie Sophie Tappeiner Wien, 2018) to the on-going tradition of realism. It can also be related to Adolph Menzel’s famous 1872 painting Studio Wall as well as to Bruce Nauman’s multi-channel installation Mapping the Studio from 1997. These two examples highlight an iconography consisting of artistic materials like plaster casts, sculpting tools, all kind of equipment as well as the transition between the space of the artist and the space of the visitor, which in the case of Nauman can also be cats and mice.