KIRSTEN KLEIN, “LIGHT”, PHOTOGRAPHY

13-10-2005 – 26-11-2005

Welcome to the opening Thursday October 13, 2005, 5-8 pm at the gallery.

The sixtieth birthday of the Danish photographer Kirsten Klein (born 1945) has just been celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at art museums in Denmark. But Kirsten Klein, living and working at the Island of Mors, Denmark, continues living with her camera. GALERIE BIRTHE LAURSEN is pleased to present the exhibition LYS (LIGHT) with new works of Kirsten Klein.

This time, the photographs of Kirsten Klein have been created on trips to the Northern Norway and Normandy, far away from modern life-world. In patient moments, the photographs focus on man’s cultivation of raw nature and on nature’s own fascinating adaptation. Also this time, the photographs deal with something apparently simple, still they contain a gleam of the grandiose. The photographs of Kirsten Klein quiver between finality and infinity, between the detail and the wide open spaces. They are eye-opening, sensuous and sometimes melancholic photographic insights into the poetry of nature and nature’s own abstract form-language.

The exhibition is conceived in collaboration with GALERIE BIRTHE LAURSEN – SUSAN NIELSEN PARIS. At the gallery in Paris, the exhibition LUMIÈRE can be seen from November 3 through December 3, 2005. In connection to the exhibitions in Copenhagen and Paris, a catalogue has been produced with a text by Torben Weirup. For more information or for ordering the catalogue, please contact one of the galleries.

The project is sponsored by the Danish Arts Council Committee for Visual Arts.

The exhibition in Copenhagen continues through November 26, 2005.