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Tove Storch’s work can be viewed as a continuous investigation of sculptural possibilities. The Danish artist bases her art on research, and to a greater extent, on physically perceiving and experiencing, creating sensuous and often unexpected sculptures through which she experiments with different materials, and their relationship with both the viewer and the space around them.
The focus of her sculptural works is the materials: their nature, their limitations and the unexpected ways in which they can be used, reworked and presented to the viewer. She does not seek to overwhelm the audience, but to make them focus on sensations and details – in her own words, to ‘sharpen the view on reality’. As a result, her floor-pieces reflect the space and the viewer, and may function as an exercise in mindfulness, in being present.
This artwork (Untitled (2022)) is part of a larger project, a whole series of artworks that teeter between sculpture and architecture and use transparent material, mainly a specific kind of silk, to create space. It also belongs to what Storch has identified as her ‘pink period’ – she finds herself obsessing over and working on specific colours for a long time. The colour pink is ultimately connected, for her, to the idea of sensing the body, femininity and sexuality, and finding connections with feminist symbols. Here, the pink translucent silk is reworked and weaved in non-traditional ways by the artist. Stretched across dark metallic surfaces and sticks, it challenges the – on first sight – incompatibility of the materials, creating different views depending on light and positioning, together with a visual dialogue between the two contrasts. This play between softness and hardness is a way for the artist to work the embodiments of, and clash between, femininity and masculinity into the materials and the sculptural techniques, themselves. It is also a way of delving into concepts of love, violence and caregiving. This contradiction not only distances her work from traditional sculpture, but it also enables the materials to construct their own language. This textural and spatial language is very important for Storch, who, in a small act of rebellion, usually names her pieces ‘untitled’ so that the focus can only be on the materials, senses and the experiences they provoke in the viewer, without preconceptions.
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(…) the intrinsic value of culture and of artistic expression should always be preserved and promoted and that artistic creation is at the heart of cooperation projects. European Parliament legislative resolution of 28 March 2019 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Creative Europe programme (2021 to 2027) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1295/2013 (COM(2018)0366 – C8 0237/2018 – 2018/0190(COD))
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Acquisition programme of works of art from Germany, Poland, Spain and Sweden following the Bureau decision from 25 November 2019
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Roberta Metsola serves as President of the European Parliament since January 2022
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Acquisition programme of works of art from Denmark, Latvia and Slovenia following the Bureau decision from 25 November 2019