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We are proud to present solo show by MARIA TORP with new paintings, sculptures and drawings. Maria Torp (born 1975) masters the superrealistic genre, which has been a continuous feature in her oeuvre. Her paintings are pure dynamic precision and yet they offer a sensibility, characteristic also to Torps sculptures and drawings. Maria Torp invites us to rediscover the well known and inspires to curiosity towards the unknown. She works with her motives in an open dialogue of what they really portray as the narratives of minor details or formal expressions open up the motive or turns our understanding entirely upside-down. Throughout her early career, drawings established the foundation of her work. More recently they have become an important inspiration both as an expression form of itself but also as a blueprint for her paintings and sculptures. The artist translates the drawings into photos, which she translates again into paintings – a process that both integrates and resolves the
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GALLERI CHRISTOFFER EGELUND
MARIA
MARIA TORP
Maria Torp (born 1975) masters the superrealistic genre, which has been a continuous feature in her oeuvre. Her paintings are pure dynamic precision and yet they offer a sensibility, characteristic also to Torps sculptures and drawings.
Maria Torp invites us to rediscover the well known and inspires to curiosity towards the unknown. She works with her motives in an open dialogue of what they really portray as the narratives of minor details or formal expressions open up the motive or turns our understanding entirely upside-down.
Throughout her early career, drawings established the foundation of her work. More recently they have become an important inspiration both as an expression form of itself but also as a blueprint for her paintings and sculptures.The artist translates the drawings into photos, which she trans-lates again into paintings - a process that both integrates and resolves the weight of the superrealistic style of paining and makes the experimental features more visible.
Working with ink and paper allows Torp to work with an intuitive and spontaneous approach. This results in a large quantity of drawings, that in action, mood or gesture refers to a person’s character, story or situation. Subsequently, she stages the selected individuals and photographs them, then replicates their portraits in her interpretive paintings. With such simple narrative techniques, intuition and free play, Maria Torp converts the portrayed individuals into general characters in a mixture of realism, drawing, abstraction and expressionism.
Maria Torp lives and works in Copenhagen, Danmark. She gradu-ated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 and has previously studied at the London College of Printing. Torp has exhibited her works in several Danish art galleries, art museums and art institutions and has made commissioned work for corporations such as FTF, TrygVesta, Ferring and lately at the Velux Foundation. Furthermore Maria Torp is co-founder of the artist trio MAM, with the artists Anika Lori and Mette Geisler.At this years Volta Show NY we proudly present the emerging Danish artist Maria Torp. She is exhibiting a new series of bronze sculp-tures and paintings inspired by the woman as underlying theme....
MARIA TORPVictory (Goldenglasses), 2013
Bronze, Edition 3, 43 x 40 x 15 cm. (17 x 15,8 x 6 inches)
MARIA TORPBeautybird, 2013
Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm. (31,5 x 23,6 inches)
MARIA TORPThe Diner, 2013
Oil on canvas, 180 x 130 cm. (51 x 71 inches)
MARIA TORPPeepHole, 2013
Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm. (23,6 x 31,5 inches)
MARIA TORPBeakBoy (Red), 2013
Bronze, Edition 3, 43 x 22 x 40 cm. (17 x 6,7 x 15,8 inches)
MARIA TORPBeakBoy (Red), 2013
Bronze, Edition 3, 43 x 22 x 40 cm. (17 x 6,7 x 15,8 inches)
MARIA TORPVictory (Green), 2013
Bronze, Edition 3, 43 x 40 x 15 cm. (17 x 15,8 x 6 inches)
MARIA TORPRivers And Red Nails, 2013
Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm. (23,6 x 31,5 inches)
MARIA TORPFocus! 2013
Oil and mirror on canvas, 80 x 60 cm. (31,5 x 23,6 inches)
MARIA TORPWoman With Her Bone, 2013
Ink on paper, 65 x 50 cm. (25,6 x 19,7 inches)
MARIA TORPBorn 1975 in Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen.
EDUCATION:
2000-2007: MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen DK
1998-1999: London College of Printing UK
SELECTED EXHIBITION:
2012/13:
Volta Show, New York, USA
XMAS12, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK
2011:
Holsterbro Kunstmuseum, Group show, Holsterbro DK
Caracterized, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK
Summertime 11, Group show, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK
2008:
Outside In, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK
Overkill, WAS, Copenhagen DK
2007:
Diesel Stay inn 07, Copenhagen DK
Exit 07, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen DK
Elmer vs. Reumert + selected, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK
Supermarket (v. Kooh-i-noor), Stockholm SE
2006:
MAM#3 (m. Anika Lori & Mette Geisler), Galleri AX12, Copenhagen DK
Summertime, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK
Are you just lost?, (with. Anne Sofie Sandal & Karin Kaster), Galleri Uden-
gaard, Aarhus DK
2005:
MAM#2 (with. Anika Lori og Mette Geisler), Byens Kro, Copenhagen DK
X-Mas, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK
Buffet, Førstetilvenstre, Copehagen DK
Gæstfrihed (with. Selvsving), Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen DK
Malerbrus2, DUNK, Copenhagen Dk
Bastard/ Blender, B14, Copenhagen DK
GroupShow, Thaddeus Strode Studio, Los Angeles US
Britney Spears og andre hellige kvinder, Amagerfælledvej, Copenhagen DK
Selvsving, Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen DK
2004:
Tegninger, Kopenhagen.dk, Copenhagen DK
Selvsving, Kopenhagen.dk & Basement, Copenhagen DK
2003:
Women Artist, Galleri Chip, Copenhagen DK
Selvsving, Køge Skitsesamling, Køge DK
Vågn op!, Køge Galleriet, Køge Dk
2002:
Kragh & Halling Art, Charlottenlund DK
BRØL! Zoologisk Have, Copenhagen DK
Elmers Cut, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen DK
Selvsving + Blender, AIX NV, Copenhagen DK
Sheisstrampolin, AIX NV, Copenagen DK
Indtil videre.. , AIX NV, Copenhagen DK
KE Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning,
Copenhagen DK
COLLECTIONS:
Velux Foundation
Statens Kunstfond
TrygVesta
FTK Collection
Finansrådet
Københavns Billedudvalg
GALLERI CHRISTOFFER EGELUNDBREDGADE 75DK-1260 COPENHAGEN KDENMARK+45 [email protected]
SUPPORTED BY:
Stockinger Art & Projects in collaboration with Galleri Christoffer Egelund are proud to present a solo show by Maria Torp at Volta Show NY.
Gry StockingerM: +45 299 16 999E: [email protected]: stockinger.dk
GALLERI CHRISTOFFER EGELUNDBREDGADE 75DK-1260 COPENHAGEN KDENMARK+45 33939200CHRISTOFFEREGELUND.DK
