Opening January 11th, 2019
17-20h
at YEARS
Tagensvej 58
2200 Copenhagen
Twelve months after its previous exhibition, Weekends is happy to present: Months. The exhibition is a portrait of the dozen of day-bundles, that make up our annual trip around the sun. An amalgamated almanac of Denmark.
When annual fashion weeks replace plowing, sowing and harvesting, January’s boots and July’s sandals are surefire signifiers of the passage of time. When kids migrate back to school for la rentrée in August, to ring in the Fall, they recall the arctic birds, whose October arrival do the same. While we might not hear it, both April and September sample and remix of all four seasons, to an ephemeral track that takes seven years to paint. When we greet the visiting Stork in May, we forget the cold of February or the darkness of December. A darkness, which dilates our pupils to call forth the unseen around us. While we undress our structures for the sun in June, the trees leaves this year’s looks on the forest floor in November, and stark naked, they make out all the way till March, getting ready for the oncoming orgy of Spring/Summer.
Months, installation view
January
Rombaut, Canvas boot, Fall/Winter 2019
Prototype boots
Left: February
Fridge containing beer and gin consumed during the opening
Right: March
Birke Gorm, IOU, 2017
Wood
Left: March
Birke Gorm, IOU, 2017
Wood
Rigth: Months, installation view
Months, installation view
April
Johannes Larsen, Bygevejr i April [Rainy weather in April], 1901-1907
Org. oil on canvas, reproduction courtesy of
Faaborg Museum
May
Johan Thomas Lundbye, Gjensyn i Mosen med hans bedste, inderligt savnede Ven [Reunion in the Bog with his best, dearly missed Friend], 1846
From “Trolddom og Hule-tanker” (1846)
June
Nanna Abell, See through/no secrets, 2016
Swimwear, sunbed, granite, lichen
Months, installation view
July
Rombaut, Salad sandal, Spring/Summer 2019
Sandals
August
Lorena Prain, Fracaso Escolar, 2018
Mixed media on paper
September
Alex Garff/Arne Pedersen, Septembers himmel er så blå, Alex Garff, 1949
September heavens, Alex Garff, 1949/ Translation by Arne Pedersen, 2018
Months, installation view
October
Johannes Larsen, Knortegæs. Regntykning, 1908
Org. oil on canvas, reproduction courtesy of
Faaborg Museum
November
Clothes left by Rasmus Myrup
Left: December
Mette Rasmussen, Nissebræt med Lovespoon, 2019 – Stainless steel, acrylic, rubber
Right: Months, installation view
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 2013. As supplements she has studied psychotherapy at Vedfelt Instituttet (DK) and olfactory science at Joya Perfume Studio (US). Her work has been shown in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions including Aros (DK), SALTS (CH), Wiesen Kunstverein (DE). Recent solo exhibitions include Ripe at Primer (2018) and PERMA RED PLAYER at Susanne Ottesen Gallery (2018). Nanna Abell is represented in the public collection of Horsens Kunstmuseum and the Danish Art Council.
(b. 1986, Hamburg) lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Previous exhibitions include Whistle and I’ll Come to You (Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Tyrol, 2018), CONDO (Bodega, New York, 2017), IOU (Croy Nielsen, Wien, 2017) and Gebärden und Ausdruck (Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, 2016).
(Born December 27 1867 in Kerteminde, Denmark - died December 20 1961, in the same location) was a Danish painter. He married Alhed Maria Warberg in 1898, know for her artistic work under the name Alhed Larsen. He fervently painted migrating and local birds throughout his life, in his local area. He lived in Kerteminde, Denmark, and their house became a hot spot for numerous painters, writers and sculptors like Fritz Syberg, Peter Hansen and Sigurd Swane. The house is today the Johannes Larsen Museum. Weekends would like to thank Faaborg Museum, for their permission to reproduce the works in their collection for this exhibition.
(September 1, 1818 - April 25, 1848) was a promising young Danish painter and graphic artist, known for his animal and landscape paintings. He became one of his generation’s national romantic painters, along with P. C. Skovgaard and Lorenz Frølich, to regularly depict the landscape of Zealand. His patriotism would also be his downfall, as he turned in for the Three-year-war (1848-1850), where he was killed at 29, by a friendly fire incident, before he got to the battle.
b. Rasmussen (August 13 1904, Frederiksberg, Denmark – died March 21 1977 in Gentofte, Denmark) was a Danish Professor and Writer. He was cand. mag in Danish and German and taught at Randers Statsskole and Aurehøj Gymnasium. Garff has written many famous Danish songs, and furthermore translated numerous works in to Danish.
b. 1951. Cand.mag. in Latin and English from Copenhagen University. Pedersen has previously been teaching English and Latin at Ingrid Jespersens Gymnasieskole. Since 1988 he has been retired after falling off a cliff in Iceland. Arne Pedersen is currently translating and preparing the publication of the Danish “Højskolesangbog” in English.
Born 1988, Madrid, Spain, lives and works in Paris, France. Lorena Prain’s practice of painting and drawing encompasses human animals and animalised humans. Anatomy, autonomy and activism all make appearances, as the not too natural world is depicted.
is born in 1993 and is currently studying at the Funen Art Academy in Odense. Rasmussen works with wood carving, papier maché and drawing. She is a Nissologist and furthermore interested in folk art and the Danish painter Johan Thomas Lundbye.
(est. 2013) is a brand producing eco-innovative, limited edition footwear. The craftsmanship of Rombaut transforms materials at a fundamental level, creating new material innovations out of stone, tree bark, natural rubber, cotton cellulose and coconut fiber. All materials and fabrics are sustainably engineered – there are no toxic or animal-derived substances involved. The Belgian designer Mats Rombaut is based in Paris, France. Rombaut is his first solo project after over five years experience in menswear accessories development and production in Paris with Lanvin menswear and later the Croatian designer Damir Doma.