Rasmus Nilausen

Paired histories. Chapter 4: Walk and Landscape

Barcelona
Mar 26 - Jun 23, 2022
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Curated by Joaquín García Martín

NoguerasBlanchard is pleased to announce the fourth chapter of Paired histories in our space in L’Hospitalet. Continuing the experimental curatorial programme developed over the last few years, this season of programming is overseen by Joaquín García Martín, founder of the former gallery garcía | galería. García proposes a (further) look at the artists showcased by the gallery between 2012 and 2020 in Doctor Fourquet street, Madrid, and proposes relations between the artists and literary figures and works.

The work of Rasmus Nilausen (Copenhagen, 1980) never loses sight of the history of Western painting, which he has researched in depth. Whether from a theoretical, technical or iconographic position, Nilausen has paid special attention to tradition and the commonplaces or topoi of the different pictorial genres as a way of renewing and updating this language, which is fundamental to art in Europe. All this was already particularly clear in his work on the still life, supposedly the most humble of the genres of painting.

Following this line of work, this exhibition considers a similar approach to landscape: that element that literally moves from the background of the painting in the 14th century to take centre stage in the 19th century. At the same time, a new sensibility was gaining strength in the viewer’s contemplative act until it took over the leading role in the fruition with two new terms that are still valid today: the concepts of the beautiful and the sublime.

Rasmus Nilausen has used Immanuel Kant’s 1764 book Observations on the Sentiment of the Beautiful and the Sublime as a guide, almost like a manual that has been giving him the clues and steps to follow. Along the way he has come across the other themes that have characterised his production: the accident, irony and humour, the vicissitudes of language, the weight of history and the conditioning factors of the artist’s work in the studio.

 

Rasmus Nilausen is a graduate of the Universitat de Barcelona (2010), where he has taught painting since 2019, and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (2011). From 2017 to 2018 he was a research fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.
He has had solo exhibitions at Overgaden and Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2019) as well as Tranen (2014); Team Gallery, New York (2019); and garcía | galería, Madrid (2018, 2014, 2013). Some recent group shows at institutions include Notes for and Eye Fire, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA (2021), Painting: Ongoing Renovation, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid (2021), and Across the Sand, CentroCentro, Madrid (2020).

 

Joaquín García Martín was born in Madrid and studies Art History at the UCM.
He has been part of the DOMÉSTICO collective from 2000 to 2008.
As a manager, he has collaborated with a large number of contemporary art institutions, both public and private.
In 2012 he founded garcía | galería that will run until its closure in 2020.
He is currently conducting the series of podcasts of interviews with current Spanish creators “Hablar normal y corriente”.
Recently curated the exhibition “Cuestion de Ambiente” at CentroCentro, Madrid.

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Installation

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Selected Works

Rasmus Nilausen
Landscape with Doubts

2022

Oil on linen

160 x 200 cm (63 x 78 34 inches)

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Worlds and Views

2022

Oil on linen

200 x 160 cm (78 34 x 63 inches)

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The Quest

2016

Oil on linen

146 x 97 cm (57 1532 x 38 316 inches)

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The Other Side

2016

Oil on linen

92 x 73 cm (36 732 x 28 34 inches)

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The German Picnic

2013

Oil on linen

92 x 60 cm (36 732 x 23 58 inches)

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Plein Air

2020

Oil on linen

73 x 60 cm (28 34 x 23 58 inches)

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Painting

2012

Oil and acrylic on linen

50 x 61 cm (19 1116 x 24 132 inches)

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Landscape

2016-2021

Oil and acrylic on linen

50 x 61 cm (19 1116 x 24 132 inches)

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Living on the Edge

2016-2022

Oil on linen

27 x 35 cm (10 58 x 13 2532 inches)

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Landscape with Screen and History

2022

Oil on linen

60 x 73 cm (23 58 x 28 34 inches)

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Landscape with Bluetooth

2022

Oil on linen

16 x 22 cm (6 516 x 8 2132 inches)

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Escape

2022

Oil on linen

38 x 46 cm (14 3132 x 18 18 inches)

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Don’t look up

2021

Oil on linen

54 x 65 cm (21 14 x 25 1932 inches)

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Counting crows

2022

Oil on linen

65 x 92 cm (25 1932 x 36 732 inches)

Rasmus Nilausen
Lo Bello y lo Sublime

2022

Oil on linen

50 x 60 cm (19 1116 x 23 58 inches)

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Landscape with Rock and Shadow

2016-2022

Oil on linen

17 x 23 cm (6 1116 x 9 116 inches)

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De nit

2020

Acrylic on linen

27 x 35 cm (10 58 x 13 2532 inches)

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Emotions (dare to compare)

2022

Pencil on paper

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Emotions (Snoop Dogg)

2021

Pencil on paper

42 x 30 cm (16 1732 x 11 1316 inches)

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