TOVE STORCH (DK)
04.10-24.10 2008

Tove Storch has created a specific exhibition for Kbh Kunsthals 7 glass cases. The exhibition contains 7 silk boxes in various sizes. One box for each glass case. The boxes consist of a simple wooden construction where around there are wrapt a thick silk satin in different metallic colours. Where the silk joins together Storch has let the extra material hanging casual and where there hasn’t been enough material the construction of the boxes stands out. In this way the distinctiveness of the materials becomes clear and the emphasize is put on the encounter between the soft and the hard material as well as the actual form. Moreover the silk boxes comments on the glass cases function – to show and to accentuate.

In the work of Storch there is a profound research of the materials that she uses. That becomes clear in her way of putting emphasis on the handling of the materials and their visuals quality that stands out in the handling. As for instance in this exhibition it is hard not to notice how the silk is draped around the case. In other works the emphasis is on the folding of a paper and the lines that comes from doing that. Storch's work takes its starting point from the tradition of minimalism. There is a clear consistency in her interest for the distinctive existence of the material, the economised notion of the use of effects and her ‘cool’ relation to the work.

Tove Storch is educated from the The Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen in 2007. Her work can at the moment be seen at the U-turn, The Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and later this year she has a solo show at Overgaden in Copenhagen. Storchs lives and works in Copenhagen and Vienna.

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