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Kunsthal Charlottenborg announces Thomas Kilpper. Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech

Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen presents a major installation by the German artist Thomas Kilpper, entitled Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech, on view 25 May–5 August 2012.


Thomas Kilpper workshop, dispari&dispari project, Reggio Emilia, 2012

Charlottenborg presents a major installation by the German artist Thomas Kilpper, entitled Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech. The work was originally created for the Danish Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, where it took the form of a raised wooden platform appended to the pavilion. Into the wooden floor of this structure the artist has carved 33 portraits—including images of leading figures from Denmark and around the world, in politics, business, the church, and media. All of them are people who Kilpper believes have been directly or indirectly responsible for promoting censorship, social exclusion or intolerance.

The floor panels of Kilpper’s pavilion were designed to also function as woodcut printing blocks, and the artist has subsequently been using them to make a variety of prints: in both fabric and paper; including single portraits as well as larger banners. At Charlottenborg the exhibition features the entire floor, an installation of prints, and an 18-metre-wide banner on the building’s facade. Following its presentation in Venice the work was much debated in the Danish press, and Charlottenborg is now offering the Copenhagen audience the opportunity to see Kilpper’s work for themselves.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Nyhavn 2
1051 Copenhagen
Denmark
www.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk

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