Line Space Texture: Lotte Westphael, Tora Urup, Carl Emil Jacobsen (Officinet)

The exhibition Line, Space, Texture. The Poetics of Form presents the works of Lotte Westphael, Tora Urup and Carl Emil Jacobsen in a dialogue at the intersection of art and design. What do Lotte Westphael’s crisp porcelain vessels and delicate ethereal lines have in common with Carl Emil Jacobsen’s dense and massive sculptures in powdered stone, or with Tora Urup’s floating, transparent trompe l’oeil glass bowls? An uncompromising experimentation with a specific material and process, emanating from a personal poetic quest, which is both born from and transcending the material. Sensuous investigations of fundamental artistic principles, such as line, space and texture, unite these three artists and their explorations. Another leitmotiv is a certain resemblance to functional objects at first glance, but instead of serving a purpose, these objects are poetic premises, artistic departures towards something else. By provoking unexpected dialogues between these different works, the exhibition will highlight the singularity of each artistic expression.