kroppens former og kurver i croquisevents. Vi er fremsynede og nyskabende og leger gerne med folks blufærdighed gemmen fx. happenings og workshops.

Med foredragets kunst har vi Kim Bindesbøl. Interesserer man sig for nøgenhed er der mulighed for at blive klogere på livet som nøgendyrker, når exformand for Danske Naturister Kim Bindesbøll holder foredraget: Det nøgne menneske - om blufærdighed og nøgenhed i personligt, socialt og samfundsperspektiv.

Med os har vi også musikkens kunst med Lars der kan bidrage musikalsk fx. under fernisering. Du kan læse om os alle her på denne side.

IN ENGLISH:

The theme of the  Exhibition "the NAKED human" presents 9 artists' visions of the human body from their personal interpretations and beliefs.

The human body has throughout  history  been portrayed in art from our many different global cultures and religions,  from ancient china, india, americas to all world cultures.

In our western world roots from the ancient egyptian and greek art, like  the Venus of Willendorf, to our Christianity beliefs of Jesus,  though own scientific knowledge from the ancient greek, ..to the renaissance like  Leonardo Da Vinci's  studies of the human body,  and to todays scientific and  religious  knowledge, the time changing keeps goes on.

Through the times the human nude has been admired, created, shame, indignation and horror. It has in some cases been sacred  or an object, and our notions of what is beautiful and ugly,  is often based on the human nudity. Especially today with Snapchat, Facebook and selfies,  the nude human figure  has accupied a central place in our global public space, and  created many emotions, opinions and beliefs.

The exhibitions The Naked Human art presents artworks by  9 artists in Video, paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs, and shows the diversity of each artist's unique imagery, expression and perspective.

The artists are: Line Taarnberg with paintings, photos and video.  paintings Lotte Horne. Lotte Kjøller, Grethe Tranberg, Jeff Ibbo, Olav Johannisson with paintings and  sculptures and Esben Fog and Barry Pringle with Photography.

During the exhibition, besides viewing our artwork,  you can attend a workshop in figure drawing and we present the public with our interpretation of the nude human in happenings and in workshops and you can attend an art lecture  "The nude

human in social and private life".. by Kim Bindesboel, past chairman of the Danish Naturalists. We also have music performance during the opening by Lars. You can read about all of us here on the site.

History of the group "the NAKED human art" /  Kunstnergruppen "det NØGNE menneskes" historie:

Folk var overraskede og positive og pressen havde dækket os flot. Der blev afholdt en times croquisevent som happening under ferniseringen mens folk gik rundt og så kunst i samme rum og der var mange der kiggede forbi for at tegne - og det tog Svendborggenserne meget fredeligt.

Men i 2018 et år efter udstillede vi igen - i Kunsthal vARTe. Kunsthallen på 333m2 ligger i Varde by ude på landet i Sønderjylland og her var man ikke vant til nøgne mennesker. Der kom både mennesker fra Varde og turister fra hele Danmark til udstillingen. I dagene efter ferniseringen kom mange flere forbi der havde hørt rygter om at der blev udstillet nøgne mennesker i Kunsthallen. At der var croqisevent efter levende nøgen model og et eksperimenterende, provokerende foredrag om nøgenhed var ganske uhørt på disse kanter...

så vi var spændt på reaktionen.

Croquis var de ikke vant til men byens kreative kom alle sammen. De tegnende gav udtryk for at vores udstilling var et frisk pust og de nød udstillingen. Eventen fik stedets tegnende til at tale sammen om at arrangere croquistegning i byen. Der havde været croquis før - men med påklædt model. At tegne et nøgent menneske og stå frem som nøgen var noget ganske uhørt her - man talte ikke om det. Så pressen kom og vi fik en fuldsidet 2 sidet artikel i Jydske Vestkysten regionalavis mest om croquis og i mange webaviser fra hele Jylland.

Nyheden spredte sig som løbeild...  Og det viser jo bare at vores events også er kunst.

Vores 4 udstilling i Pakhus Gallery, Nykøbing Sjælland, Danmark 2019 gik strålende og kunsten hang i hele huset på de ca. 350 m2. Pakhuset syntes at det var den bedste udstilling de havde haft nogensinde. Der var folk hele tiden og folk brugte meget tid på at gennemse udstillingen et billede ad gangen og vi fik alle ros. Der blev solgt godt. Der var godt 100 til ferniseringen og mennesker var kommet langvejs fra for at se udstillingen. Der var en meget lang croquisevent i

efterfølgelse af ferniseringen med model i form af en mand og en kvinde. Der var særligt åbent nogle helligdage og der kom over 90 mennesker for at se udstillingen hver dag og de var meget begejstrede.

Alle vores udstillinger har skabt en del interesse og debat i almindelige folkemunde og i medierne fx. blev videoen fra SAK i Svendborg (der kan ses her på siden) censureret bort fra Facebook fordi der var for mange nøgne mennesker i. Vores åbningstale får folk til at betro sig til os bagefter. Så vores udstilling er ikke ligegyldig. Den vækker debat. Den skaber interesse. Den får folk til at tænke sig om. Den rammer noget i vores samfund ligenu på godt og mindre godt - i Danmark og i verden. Det er noget folk har meninger om. Udstillingen stiller relevante spørgsmålstegn. Skal dit sted udstille os næste gang?

IN ENGLISH:

We started as an artist group after our first exhibition June 2014. One of us won among many themed exhibitions to exhibit "the NAKED human Art" in a exhibitionplace that does not exist any more, "The Yellow Villa" Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, DK – a less important exhibitionplace. During the exhibition was also Kim Bindesbøll's incredible talk and 3 croquis-events with event managers and models from the group. There were many people for opening both the people we knew and strangers -it was our town. The exhibition was so great that we decided it was not the last time we exhibit together. But it also brought a lot of debate about about our right to paint nudes. But wedo not take care of it. We do it anyway. The exhibition still have the form it had in "The Yellow Villa" like mixed art like Visual art, photo, music and talk in the same theme. You can view the exhibition on this page as a slideshow. You can see how small the exhibition was comparing to the slideshow from SAK on the contact page. Its historical now.

2.5 years after in the beginning of 2017 we again exhibited this time on the completely different 300m2 floored floors and as invited guests in the well-reputed SAK Exhibition Hall, Svendborg, Denmark. The exhibition, with its size and greatness, large works was quite overwhelming and received a very positive response. There were 250-300 guests from close to far from all of Fyn iceland and Zealand alone to the fernization, and SAK had to make new worksheets of several times. It was sold well. We received much praise for our opening speech that put the naked person into a contemporary perspective. People were surprised and positive and the press covered us well. An hour's croquis event took place during the fernisage while people walked around and saw art in the same room and there were many who looked past to draw. Svendborg was peacefull about it.

In 2018, a year after we exhibited in the vARTe Exhibitionhall. The Exhibitionhall at 333m2 is located in Varde municipality in Jutland in the countryside in Southern Jutland and here was people not so used to nudity. There came both people from Varde and tourists from all over Denmark for exhibition. In the days following the opening came many more passing by who had heard rumours that there was exhibited naked people in the Exhibitionhall. There was a croqisevent after live nude and an experimental, provocative talk about nudity with was quite unheard of in these parts of country ...   So we were excited at the response.

Croquis was not accustomed but the town´s creative came all together. The characters end gave expression to our show was a breath of fresh air in town and they enjoyed the exhibition. The event got the participations to talk together to arrange the croquis drawing in the town. There had been before -but with clothed croquis models. To draw a nude and stand as naked person was totally unheard here -we do not speak about it. So the press came and we got a full page 2 sided article inJyske Vestkysten regional newspaper about croquis and in many web newspapers from all over Jutland. The news spread like wildfire ... It is hard to understand that our events in Varde almost was overvelming to the rest of a great artexhibit simply because that included real live nudes but it has something to do with the area. And it just shows that our events are art too.

Our 4 exhibition in Pakhus Gallery in Nykoebing Sealand, Denmark 2019 went brilliant and the art hangs throughout the house on the approx. 350 m2. The warehouse thinks it was the best exhibition they had ever had. There were people all the time and people spent a lot of time reviewing the exhibition one image at a time and we got all the praise. Well sold. There were just over 100 for the varnishing and people had come from afar to see the exhibition. There was a very long croquis event following the opening with a model in the form of a man and a woman.

All our exhibitions have created a part interest and debate in General popularity and in the media for example was the video from the SAK (which can be seen on this page) censored from Facebook because there were too many naked people in. Our inaugural speech causes people to confide in us afterwards. So our exhibition is not indifferent. It stirs debate. It creates interest. It makes people think. It hits something in our society right now on good and less good -in Denmark and in the world. It is something people have opinions about. I makes relevant questions. Should your place exhibit us next time?

The NUDE art - an art history wiew / det NØGNE menneske - kunsthistorisk set

Samtidig med at vi dyrkede den nye maleriske frihed som Cobra og de Abstrakte Ekspressionister og de Konkrete kom med, Fra Jorn, Pollock og Mondrian og de nye Situationiste og Konceptkunstnere, fjernede vi os fra dyrkelsen af det nøgne menneske. ”Det kan du da ikke mene" sagde min højskolelærer Gunnar Jebsen, da jeg en dag havde malet et sort picassolignende billede af en nøgen dame med farverige kulørte former.

Det var Svend Wiig Hansen og Palle Nielsen der her hjemme fik drejet kroppen ind i kunsten igen. Selvfølgelig var der andre som Ekelund og Kontillius som selv lejede modeller de malede på personlige måder. Men i store træk er det nøgne menneske gået ud af kunsten, det er mere i film, tegneserier og såkaldt erotisk kunst at det nøgne menneske lever et lidt indeklemt og vitaminfattigt halvliv. Der hvor modeller dyrkes i dag er blandt Folk som mest har lyst til at lære at tegne udenfor akademierne og ofte uden kunstnerambitioner, men måske en ny start?

Mange hilsner Billedkunstner Jeff Ibbo

IN ENGLISH:

by Jeff Ibbo, artist

We have had Venus from Villendorf for many thousand years. So I wonder if the nude has been a subject as long as there have been people with a stick could draw in the sand, paint with ocher or blood on the rocks, or could cut a tree stump. The image of people without clothes is a perpetual case and pretext for doing so has alternated, indigenous peoples cultivated fertility figures of both men and women. Prehistoric cultures had ritual and religious reasons to do it, in Europe early cultures had a image of the beautiful forms, since it was believed that the gods was a kind of idealized humans, and therefore developed an aesthetic around the naked human. Christianity and other monotheistic cultures began with sine concept, which opposed to the  enthusiasm for the nakedness - and especially the female form was put to shame - even if you compensated by the nursing Madonna or pictorial allegories that made it justified to show the naked in Hades or other spooky places where nudity is not believed to adhere to unchaste thoughts. The study of the naked human art took place in private place after. It often was only men who stood model, so the imagination added that what was missing and figlief subordinates the rest. As late as in 1837  Eckersberg writes : "Today we painted for the first time a female model there was 7 students at the royal artacademy around her and the pictures are all quite naturalistic."

However, the basis was layed for that kind of figur painting, that I, Jeff Ibbo, learned the first years at the royal academy of fine arts, but funny enough it was modernism that stopped figurative art .. again. Now, art should be abstract and conceptuel and the naked human figure was again stylised,  as it had been in the Middle Ages, it was not art in itself, only if it was made to display a thought/concept or entered into in the context of philosophical or allegorical content. At the same time we cultivated the new picturesque freedom as Cobra and the Abstract Expressionists and Concrete came with, from Jorn, Pollock and Mondrian, and the new Situationniste and Concept Artists, we removed ourselves from the iamge of the nude. "You cannot mean that " said my highschool teacher Gunnar Jebsen, one day when I had painted a black picasso similar picture of a naked lady with colorful colored shapes.

It was the art professors Svend Wiig Hansen and Palle Nielsen in Denmark, that again turned the human figur back into the danish artscene.. Of course there were others, like Ekelund and Kontillius also from Denmark who hired models to paint in their personal ways.

But basicly,  the nude image was out of the art, and it was more in flim, comics and so-called erotic art that the naked human image lives a little cramped and vitamin poor live.

Where nudemodels drawing and paintings is made, is today among people who mostly want to learn how to draw outside academies and often without artist ambitions, but perhaps a new beginning?

Many greetings Artist Jeff Ibbo

What is the artist group the NAKED human art? / Hvad er kunstnergruppen det NØGNE menneske?

Man kan fx se at vores skulptør og billedkunstner Jeff Ibbo ligger fint i tråd med Giagometti med de langstakte enkle figurer. Billedkunstner Lotte Kjøller rækker tilbage til Barselitz og Cobras ekspressive stil som maler, men er mere modernistisk i sin skulpturer. Grethe Tranberg er med sit mylder af figurer i brunlige farver i slægt med framsk kunst. Skulptør Olav Johannissons skulpturer leder derimod tankerne hen mod arkæisk stil og hans malerier er ekspressive i stil med Bonnard. Billedkunstner Line Taarnberg er med sine dirrekte parafraser inspireret af fortidens mestre fx Rodin. Fotografen Barry Pringle er meget organisk og kommer helt tæt på figuren således at kroppen bliver et tegn - et kropstegn - ligesom de japanske skrifttegn. Vores anden fotograf Espen Fog er derimod meget mere surealistisk og sammensætter figurerne helt i eget univers ligesom billedkunstneren Lotte Horne også gør.

Med os har vi to andre kunstarter. Kim Bindesbøll med et meget fremsynet og kreativt foredrag om det nøgne menneske og musikeren Lars der kan bidrage musikalt.

IN ENGLISH:

What is the artist group the NAKED human art?

The naked human has been used as a motif and model ever since the Middle Ages. The motif  has had its ups and downs depending on how people attitudes were.

Cavvaragio and Leonardo da Vinci for example has used the model. In the old days life as a model were very hard. The poor models stood for hours for artists like Cavaraggio in very difficult positions only supported by a stick like. It was a full time job that nobody could cope and these models died an early death. So it was not ordinary people who were artists nude model. It was beggars, homeless people and criminals who laid the body - in exchange for money, food and shelter. It was simply better than standing in the rain on the street.

Nowadays the models have better conditions. The models even in Denmark have  their own Union. A model poses for her salary 20 min. and then 10 min. free and so on. And the model has allowed to say no to very complex positions that will harm her/his body. So models today do not die of their work. But it still requires a lot to be a model. It is hard for the body to sit in one position for so long. Today it is used both men and wemen as models of all types of people and looks; Thin, thick, black, white, etc. are used as a model.

Like Cavarragio, Leonardo Da Vinci and Picasso and many other artists we are professional artists who use the naked human/the nude as model and inspiration for our art in the artist group "the NAKED human art" Whether it has been in vogue or not has not affected our choice of motif. Many of us have worked with a human figure in protest to the world's view of the same. We care about the human body and mind. We've put the mann at the center of our art. How we do that is different just as past artists have done.

One can for example see that our sculptor and artist Jeff Ibbo ties in with Giagometti with the long simple shapes. Visual artist Lotte Kjøller goes back to Baselitz and Cobras expressive style as a painter but is more modernist in her sculptures. Grethe Tranberg is an artist working in the tradition of the old flamish painting of narrative figurative symbolism using a brown palet.Sculptor Olav Johannissons sculptures has likeness to archaic style and his paintings are expressive in style with Bonnard. Artist Line Taarnberg works with direkte paraphrases inspired by past masters such as Rodin. Visual artist  The photographer Barry Pringle is very organic and come very close to the figure so that the body becomes a sign - a body sign - like the Japanese characters. Photographer Espen Fog is much more surealistisk and put together the characters perfectly in own universe like the visual artist Lotte Horne also do.

With us we have two other arts. Kim Bindesbøll with a very forward-looking and creative talk on the naked human and the musician Lars can help mucically.

The exhibitors was / Kunstnerne var 2014-2019

Member Lotte Kjøller

Writers Association (DFF) as an illustrator and poet. I have exhibited widely both in Denmark and the rest of the world. I paint acrylic on canvas. As an artist, I am most famous for painting naked people. I have done that all my life. I'm also working to put more canvas upholstery together for 1 picture and in all possible canvas formats. Moreover I makes installations, draw, illustrate, doing sculpture, teaches and talks. My paintings are always acrylic on canvas or wood, sculpture of stoneware, and lithography are stone pressure on cotton paper.

See my site: www.Lk-kunst.dk where there are works full CV, etc.

LOTTE KJØLLERS ARTIST STATEMENT

Our body is our mind's housing and is completely natural - with and without clothes. All bodies regardless of age, color and sex is beautiful. We humans undergoing a transformation in life. Both we and our bodies change. We must sometimes struggle to achieve our desires and emerge stronger/ adults out there - and ahead in life. Our naked body symbolizes vulnerability and honesty in art. This is depicted in the image, the color's height, depth and effect. The style is abstract-expressive with figurative layers as Bonnard and Cobra and the colour symbolic, sparkling with silver/ gold emphasis.

- Also Adam and Eve were naked in the Garden of Eden without problems. Only after the fall they got dressed!

KONTAKT/CONTACT:

Lotte Kjøller/Lotte Kjoeller

Bogholder Alle 66 kl th. 2720 Vanloese

København/Copenhagen

Denmark

Mail: Lk@Lk-kunst.dk

Site: www.Lk-kunst.dk

Tel: +45 2878 0309

Member Barry Pringle

Member esben Fog

Esben has worked mainly with film/analogue techniques and is now increasingly working with digital format.   

Esben’s portfolio is primarily of the nude human body. Clothing gives a figure a defined identity, situated in a defined time. Unclothed the figure transcends time and place and becomes universal.

Esben is a member of the “Danish historical photographical Society” and finds inspiration from the works of old photographers such as Henry Peach Robinson and Oscar Gustav Rejlander. Painters have also been a rich source of inspiration.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions in art galleries, public places, cafes and restaurants in Denmark, among them “The Danish Museum of Photographic Arts.”

Latest exhibitions:

2019: Pakhuset kulturhus, Nykøbing Sj,  (art museum and cultural center on Sealand). 2018: 7 exhibitions, among them “vARTe” (art museum and cultural center in Jutland) and “Odeon” a new cultural center in central Odense. 2017: 4 exhibitions, among them “SAK” (Svendborg art museum and gallery). Esben Fog’s work has been featured in newspapers and photo magazines, among them “Danish photography” and “Kunstavisen” (The artmagasin). Short documentary on Danish television.

Esben Fog. 

Edvard Brandes Gade 15. 5000 Odense C

esben@esben-fog.dk.   site: http://www.esben-fog.dk/

+45 40 25 47 52

Member Grethe Tranberg

Although it can be said that Grethe has been very faithful towards his imagery has to be pleased that at the same time, she has managed the difficult art and with the important core (which calls for distinctive) preserved. For those who have followed her, it is not necessary with long descriptions and explanations, we know that it started in Sunday school, as we know, she was once on the side of the Mediterranean who belong to Africa, and that she has been in Rome and Tuscany. Also, we know that she does not draw, butis a painterand paint all hers characters and landscapes by the painting chaos that occurs when one starts spontaneously and with the inner Tablet completely blank.

GRETHE'S ARTIST STATEMENT:

Grethe Tranberg painting imaginative pictures of animals and humans in a interaction that is both dramatic and expressive, but also in the balance. Here appearing Angels with naturalness in archetypal modes in a modern colorfull language. She is inspired by medieval imagery and Tuscany's mythological creatures with and without wings in a fertile hilly landscape. Together with the naïve expression and a strong expressive style is Grethe the big storyteller in her paintings. Here's what Grethe even slices of her painting: "I'm working on that color must live, be deep, textuality, vibrating and organic, the form supports the color: the color becomes form, it will be moving and provide motive and history.

CONTAKT:

Grethe Tranberg

Erik Menveds vej 2,2 tv. 1965 Frederiksberg C

Fastnet:   35 39 58 49. Mobil:      22 93 62 93

Mail:         kunsten050@me.c

Se mere:  Hjemmeside  www.offthewall.dk

member Jeff Ibbo

Published 3 cartoonbooks  1970, 71-72. Many galleries exhibits bla.galleri Marius, gallery Gerly, Art Associations and groups exhibits like Mult (1979-2014, Waiting for Noah in the Broensalen. 2014 Kbh.Berlin 2012 and 2014, Arts for All, Kerteminde artfestival, Samart, Koege. Biography written by Ole Lindbo in 2009

JEFF IBBO  -  ARTIST STATEMENT:

In 1979, I threw myself into a restless naturalistic theme of painting nature and humans, without any particular style. It led me back into an expressively figure painting, with roots in the Flemish ekspressionime (De Smet and Permeke) and Danish artists like Heerup. There is colored outlines around shapes, and large homogeneous surfaces. New debut in 86 at Charlottenborg, and KE91, and an entire wall with self-portraits

in the Ministry of Culture Exhibition Hall in Overgaden 93, together with Flemming Born and Steffen Sølberg. The colored contour disappeared gradually from the mid -90s, to be reborn as an often thin line shape that is tightly composed into the picture surface, and it was very textural, like the pictures I tried to paint in the early sixties. In some very large images, ca. 2 meters in height, I have worked even more with the purely physical painting, directly opposite models. Recently the colored contour is  resurfaced again as a more luminous marking of the figure that preserves the figurative impression and opens for more abstraction.

KONTAKT/CONTACT:

Jeff Ibbo, Erik Menvedsvej 2, 2 tv. 1965 Frederiksberg C. Denmark

site: www.offthewall.dk

mail: kunst@offthewall.dk   

jeffoffthewall@gmail.com

+45 35 39 58 49

member Olaf Johannisson

Og der udstilles på messer og markeder, i ind- og udland, på gallerier og i kunstforeninger, censuret og ucensuret, og  i forhaver og baghaver. Der laves bestillingsopgaver (Farumsøsti) og til det frie marked. Og så males der, og undervises i div. billedkunstneriske dicipliner.

I stenene er der ofte taget udgangspunkt former fra vores forfædres stenredskaber. Dolke, økser mm., er umådelig elegante og stramme i linierne, og den historiske anknytning og vingesus giver for mig en ekstra dimension. Og de rejses som torsoer.

Lerskulpturerne tager mere eksplicit udgangspunkt i mennesket/kroppen, og er mere naturalistiske om end med en ekspressiv og mere rå fremtræden.

Malerierne har for det meste også referencer til mennesket og noget arkarisk, sakralt og/eller samfundsrelateret. En nyere serie  er lavet med inspiration fra vor natur/naturen. Og fremstår som mere eller mindre abstraherede landskaber.

OLAV JOHANNISSONS ARTISTSTATEMENT:

Det nøgne menneske er for mig, mennesket som sådan, ikke det enkelte konkrete, som i mine musiker-portrætter, men mennesket generelt. Og det at ”gen”-skabe det nøgne menneske, er så at gå på opdagelse i kvaliteter ved mennesket/det menneskelige. Og det må meget gerne være en meget fysik/kropslig virksomhed – ikke kamp, men nydelse -  og det skal også fremstå sådant. Man skal kunne se penselstrøg, kædesavens snit eller redskabernes massen rundt med leret. Det er fysik og skabelse og det er der ingen grund til at skjule. Ikke noget nussen og glatten ud. I leret og træet er det oftest kvinden,- ikke kæresten, ikke søster eller kokkens datter, men moderen, som vi har dyrket i 15.000 år. Siden Villendorf,- Det er Venusser der giver liv. Der skaber. Den store moder - vores alles forudsætning.

FØDT:

Født 18.02.1954 på Poppel alle i Hareskov, Danmark

CONTACT:

Olav Johannisson, Poppel alle 40, 3500 Vaerløse, Denmark.

tel: +45 44980630/ +45 25599288.

Site: www.olavjohannisson.dk mail: olavjoha@hotmail.com

Tidligere udstillere og tidligere gæsteudstillere til "det NØGNE menneske´s" udstillinger: Previous exhibitors and former guest exhibitors for "the NAKED human Art"" exhibitions: