News from Rolf Knudsen (featured artist)

Blank_Space gallery presents Rolf Knudsen's first solo show: Monsters, Mavericks and Tridents. It's a black carny of strange and beautifully deranged creatures from his darkly satirical pen. The show will include over 25 framed works on paper, acrylic paintings and a selection of mounted prints. Rolf is an artist and musician who has spent the past 20 years working in Europe, the UK and the USA from a base in London. Now living in Australia permanently, Rolf is expanding exposure of his work through the production of original work, prints and other media. His singular brand of surrealism is inspired by the tragic-comedy of everyday life, the excesses of human behaviour, the absurdity of ritual and manifestations of new visual possibilities now being revealed by science and technology. Most of all, his probing of the recesses of imagination is fuelled by an acute sense of the ridiculous. Rolf says that his work ' is a metaphorical laboratory which creates a life of infinite possibilities for the shadowed denizens of the subconscious and the imagined unknown. Negative, violent and maverick forces inhabit a twilight zone where chaos prevails, opposites attract, evil is good and one-eyed gods walk inexorably toward their own ruin. These drawings and paintings are like surrogate lovers, children, demons and absurd confessors. They stand proudly in a pool of metaphysical slush that's on tap from twilight places where imagination and the subconscious fight for front row seats. They laugh and leer because satire makes all our madness endurable and somehow transfigures the darkness inside of us so as to render it palatable'. I hope you enjoy my motley assortment of mavericks, losers, outsiders and freaks.

Join us between 6-8pm on August 16 for drinks. The show continues for a week until the 22nd.Everyone is welcome and there's disabled access. Blank_Space gallery is situated at 374 Crown St, Surry hills, Sydney, Australia.

Rolf Knudsen's Gallery

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This entry was posted on Sunday, August 5th, 2007 at 8:27 am by Jon Beinart and is filed under Artist News, Exhibitions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.