MOTIVES FROM NORTH ITALY

By Anne Skole Overgaard

Kunsthal NORD
Station to Station
with The Exhibition Space Sydhavn Station
6 January - 4 February 2018

See video documentation of the exhibition

ANNE SKOLE OVERGAARD: MOTIVES FROM NORTH ITALY

The Chinese's factory at the other side of the road
Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 300 cm
2017

"I live part of the time in Northern Italy. It's in the country side, in a house that belonged to my boyfriend's grandparents, and where we are now living. At the other side of the road is the chinese's factory. I've been fascinated by the fence along the road for a long time. One day, when I walked by, the sliding door to the factory was partly open, but I still couldn't see what they were doing in there, because of the fence and the hedge.

Probably they made clothes or shoes in the factory. Sometimes a new group of young cinese came to work there. I think they saved up money so they could buy a house when they returned to China. We said hello to then when they also went for a walk on the path behind the village.

Recently the authorities came and closed the factory. The workers were there without permit and I think there was something with tax as well. Now the factory is empty and the owner put it up for sale, together with the big house where they lived and the garden that always looked abandoned with giant trees."

ANNE SKOLE OVERGAARD
The Chinese's factory at the other side of the road (detail)
Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 300 cm
2017

Fence, Carrara
2 plakater i glichéprint, 120x80cm
2017

Sculptures, Marina di Massa
2 posters in glichéprint, 120x80cm
2017

"Sometimes we go for a vacation in Marina di Massa. The neighbour's garden is full of sculptures. Maybe they are for sale, but they have been there a long time.

There are long rows of colourful umbrellas along the beach and a bit down the coast there is big white holiday camp from the 30's, right next to the ocean. It could house thousand children and teenagers from the industrial city Torino, but now the holiday camp is empty.

Carrara is close by, and here they quarried marble in the mountains since the Roman Empire. In the beginning of the 16th century, Michelangelo was sent out from Firenze to construct a new marble quarry a few kilometers from Carrara, so the city state Firenze could quarry their own marble, without paying to Carrara. There are several copies of Michelangelo's sculpture David in the neighbour's garden.

As you leave the coast the holiday village gets mixed with ordinary houses, kitchengardens and olivetrees, and inbetween, the heavy marble industri with cranes and rows of marble blocks. There are several abandoned factories, where some of them look like they never finished the building."

Sculptures, Marina di Massa
2 posters in glichéprint, 120x80cm
2017

Sculptures, Marina di Massa
2 posters in glichéprint, 120x80cm
2017

The Chinese's factory at the other side of the road
Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 300 cm
2017

EXHIBITIONS
Marble Window Letters
Station to station
First out - then in
Landscape
Evening Fields
Altrove / Elsewhere
Drawing Biennale Zeichen setzen
Niche - billboard
Reality (within)
Bahnüberführung
Railroad Overpass
Houses and Trees
GAU
Travel
Spring Summer Autumn Winter
1 book 2 paintings & 53 drawings
The Garden

PAINTING
Niche - watercolor
Houses, Italy
Olive
Curtain
Tiled floor, New York
Rhubarb

DRAWINGS
Houses, Italy
Rostock - Berlin
Snow
The artist's wife. After L. A. Ring

GRAPHICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Reed
Woodcut - process
Trees
Photos from Siberia...

ARTISTS' BOOKS
Catalogue: Houses and Trees
Disaster
My Good Life - Book

COMMISSIONS
Winter Kfuk residence hall

CV
ARCHIVE
FRONTPAGE
DANSK

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