Visual artist Jens Settergren in conversation with curator Marianna Vecellio (IT)

Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Bikubenfonden hereby invite you to Kunstsalon VISION, which is slated to be held on Friday, March 11, from 4:00-5:00 PM, in the screening room at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Here, visual artist Jens Settergren will be meeting with Marianna Vecellio, curator at Castello di Rivoli in Turin, to engage in conversation about Settergren’s artistic practice. 

How do the objects and images that we are surrounded by play a part in evoking and shaping particular distinctive ideas about the world? What is it that happens with the fundamental substance of being human, in an accelerating technological world, where the relationship between technology and mankind is being investigated to its utmost implications? And how is the human being expressing fear, desire and dreams while we are busy developing new technologies and machines?

These are questions that Jens Settergren seeks to answer via his art, where he is making use of materials that span the gamut from glass mosaics to computer animations. He is attempting to understand and also wants to render visible the human being’s capacity to – and need for – designing and constructing complex worldviews.

Settergren has already built up a network on the international art scene, and he is an artist that we expect to see much more of.

Jens Settergren has been singled out for Bikubenfonden’s Artistic Practice program for particularly promising artistic practices. As one aspect of this program, Bikubenfonden arranges an ‘interview salon’, which has the objective of examining the selected artist’s singular approach to art and the potential seated within this. In connection with the interview salons, it is the artist him/herself who chooses his/her interview partner.

The event will be in English and will cost 10 DKK. It is necessary to buy your ticket online: https://billetto.dk/…/kunstsalon-vision-billedkunstner…

ABOUT JENS SETTERGREN 

Jens Settergren (born in 1989) graduated from the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Collective pictorial formations, science fiction and contemporary mythologies are focal points in visual artist Jens Settergren’s art practice. He frequently makes use of ‘ready-mades’ (article of everyday use), such as existing 3D figures from online archives, mass-produced objects and advertising stills, which he reworks and processes – in his sculptures, installations and video works – and manages to set into new situational contexts. By working in this way, Settergren explores underlying meanings encoded in pictures, objects, and languages.

In large-scale total installations, he treats of themes like nature, escapism and technology. He is especially preoccupied with the radical notions and pictorial formations that the accelerating technology in our Western society gives rise to.

You can read more about Settergren’s practice here: jenssettergren.com

ABOUT MARIANNA VECELLIO

Marianna Vecellio is a curator and art historian. She has been educated in art history, with a concentration on modern art and contemporary art, at La Sapienza University in Rome. She was employed at The Castle of Rivoli in Turin in 2007, and since 2012, she has been Curator of its museum, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Vecellio is creating exhibitions and publications for Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, where she places special emphasis on studies of subjectivity in the digital society – including a focus on ecology, the posthuman, an exploration of new forms of coexistence, and the transformation of the living.