MARIA
GALLERI CHRISTOFFER EGELUND
MARIA TORP
Maria Torp (born 1975) masters the superrealistic genre, which has been a continuous feature in her oeuvre. Her paintings are pure dynamic precision and yet they offer a sensibility, characteristic also to Torps sculptures and drawings. Maria Torp invites us to rediscover the well known and inspires to curiosity towards the unknown. She works with her motives in an open dialogue of what they really portray as the narratives of minor details or formal expressions open up the motive or turns our understanding entirely upside-down. Throughout her early career, drawings established the foundation of her work. More recently they have become an important inspiration both as an expression form of itself but also as a blueprint for her paintings and sculptures. The artist translates the drawings into photos, which she translates again into paintings - a process that both integrates and resolves the weight of the superrealistic style of paining and makes the experimental features more visible. Working with ink and paper allows Torp to work with an intuitive and spontaneous approach. This results in a large quantity of drawings, that in action, mood or gesture refers to a person’s character, story or situation. Subsequently, she stages the selected individuals and photographs them, then replicates their portraits in her interpretive paintings. With such simple narrative techniques, intuition and free play, Maria Torp converts the portrayed individuals into general characters in a mixture of realism, drawing, abstraction and expressionism. Maria Torp lives and works in Copenhagen, Danmark. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 and has previously studied at the London College of Printing. Torp has exhibited her works in several Danish art galleries, art museums and art institutions and has made commissioned work for corporations such as FTF, TrygVesta, Ferring and lately at the Velux Foundation. Furthermore Maria Torp is co-founder of the artist trio MAM, with the artists Anika Lori and Mette Geisler. At this years Volta Show NY we proudly present the emerging Danish artist Maria Torp. She is exhibiting a new series of bronze sculptures and paintings inspired by the woman as underlying theme....
MARIA TORP Victory (Goldenglasses), 2013 Bronze, Edition 3, 43 x 40 x 15 cm. (17 x 15,8 x 6 inches)
MARIA TORP Beautybird, 2013 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm. (31,5 x 23,6 inches)
MARIA TORP The Diner, 2013 Oil on canvas, 180 x 130 cm. (51 x 71 inches)
MARIA TORP PeepHole, 2013 Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm. (23,6 x 31,5 inches)
MARIA TORP BeakBoy (Red), 2013 Bronze, Edition 3, 43 x 22 x 40 cm. (17 x 6,7 x 15,8 inches)
MARIA TORP BeakBoy (Red), 2013 Bronze, Edition 3, 43 x 22 x 40 cm. (17 x 6,7 x 15,8 inches)
MARIA TORP Victory (Green), 2013 Bronze, Edition 3, 43 x 40 x 15 cm. (17 x 15,8 x 6 inches)
MARIA TORP Rivers And Red Nails, 2013 Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm. (23,6 x 31,5 inches)
MARIA TORP Focus! 2013 Oil and mirror on canvas, 80 x 60 cm. (31,5 x 23,6 inches)
MARIA TORP Woman With Her Bone, 2013 Ink on paper, 65 x 50 cm. (25,6 x 19,7 inches)
MARIA TORP Born 1975 in Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen. EDUCATION: 2000-2007: MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen DK 1998-1999: London College of Printing UK SELECTED EXHIBITION: 2012/13: Volta Show, New York, USA XMAS12, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK 2011: Holsterbro Kunstmuseum, Group show, Holsterbro DK Caracterized, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK Summertime 11, Group show, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK 2008: Outside In, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK Overkill, WAS, Copenhagen DK 2007: Diesel Stay inn 07, Copenhagen DK Exit 07, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen DK Elmer vs. Reumert + selected, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK Supermarket (v. Kooh-i-noor), Stockholm SE 2006: MAM#3 (m. Anika Lori & Mette Geisler), Galleri AX12, Copenhagen DK Summertime, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK Are you just lost?, (with. Anne Sofie Sandal & Karin Kaster), Galleri Udengaard, Aarhus DK 2005: MAM#2 (with. Anika Lori og Mette Geisler), Byens Kro, Copenhagen DK
X-Mas, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen DK Buffet, Førstetilvenstre, Copehagen DK Gæstfrihed (with. Selvsving), Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen DK Malerbrus2, DUNK, Copenhagen Dk Bastard/ Blender, B14, Copenhagen DK GroupShow, Thaddeus Strode Studio, Los Angeles US Britney Spears og andre hellige kvinder, Amagerfælledvej, Copenhagen DK Selvsving, Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen DK 2004: Tegninger, Kopenhagen.dk, Copenhagen DK Selvsving, Kopenhagen.dk & Basement, Copenhagen DK 2003: Women Artist, Galleri Chip, Copenhagen DK Selvsving, Køge Skitsesamling, Køge DK Vågn op!, Køge Galleriet, Køge Dk 2002: Kragh & Halling Art, Charlottenlund DK BRØL! Zoologisk Have, Copenhagen DK Elmers Cut, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen DK Selvsving + Blender, AIX NV, Copenhagen DK Sheisstrampolin, AIX NV, Copenagen DK Indtil videre.. , AIX NV, Copenhagen DK KE Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen DK COLLECTIONS: Velux Foundation Statens Kunstfond TrygVesta FTK Collection Finansrådet Københavns Billedudvalg
Stockinger Art & Projects in collaboration with Galleri Christoffer Egelund are proud to present a solo show by Maria Torp at Volta Show NY.
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