Alexander Tovborg – Ghost
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Barbati Gallery is proud to present Danish artist Alexander Tovborg's new exhibition, Ghost. The spaces of the gallery at Palazzo Lezze on Campo Santo Stefano will host Tovborg's new body of works inspired by an enigmatic encounter with a ghost in Venice.
february 2022. I saw a Ghost. in one of the narrow streets leading up to Campo dei Frari. I saw it reach down for a flower on the street, only to return upright empty-handed. I stood by and watched this scene repeat itself again and again. who was haunting who.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 11 from 6 to 8 pm.
Alexander Tovborg (b. 1983, Copenhagen, Denmark) studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark. Tovborg's work has been the subject of international solo exhibitions including Kirken, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023); The Deity and its Creators, Rudolph Tegner Museum & Statue Park, Dronningmølle, Denmark (2019); Knight of Faith, GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Denmark (2016); The Rape of Europha, State of Concept, Athens, Greece (2016); Bocca Baciata, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2014); Teenage Jesus, Hospitalhof, Stuttgart, Germany (2012); and Tre, Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark (2011).
Selections of his oeuvre have been featured in institutional group exhibitions including at the Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2020); 9th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden (2017); Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark (2016); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2013); and the Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico (2012). At Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA in 2015, Tovborg’s work was included in The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy, a rereading of the Cobra postwar movement curated by Alison M. Gingeras. Tovborg’s work is represented in the public collections of the ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and the Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark.
Selections of his oeuvre have been featured in institutional group exhibitions including at the Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2020); 9th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden (2017); Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark (2016); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2013); and the Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico (2012). At Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA in 2015, Tovborg’s work was included in The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy, a rereading of the Cobra postwar movement curated by Alison M. Gingeras. Tovborg’s work is represented in the public collections of the ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and the Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark.
