Whispers ~ Works on Paper by Ian McKeever

Monday, 07 August 2006 10:54

Copenhagen, DK - In the autumn and winter of 2004-2005, the British artist Ian McKeever visited the study collection of antique portraits and other sculptures at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.  These visits resulted in a series of 48 drawings which are presented in this exhibition.  The drawings are an attempt to reach through time and touch Antiquity.  Dealing with the antique figure they are concerned with what we recognise: when do lines, forms and mass emerge and become present for us as a picture, a face or a body?

The title Whispers refers to a game in which you sit in circle and whisper a sentence:

“When I was a child we used to play a game where we all sat in a circle.  Someone would begin by whispering something into the ear of the person next to them, this person would then pass on what they had heard to the next, and so it would go on around the circle.  The game was what happened to what had originally been said as it whispered its way into another meaning, or lost meaning altogether.  We called the game Chinese Whispers.”  Ian McKeever

Visit The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek at : http://www.glyptoteket.dk/