With the exhibition On Perspective, Gallery Faurschou presents a number of contemporary artists, mainly from New York, working with different concepts, and in different media with new interpretations of the classical art historical notion, the perspective.

Throughout the 90´s much attention has been directed towards the social contexts of art. Many artists have investigated art’s capacity to play a more direct and active role in society, and many art projects have dealt with the possibilities of art entering other relations – be they in social, ethical, environmental or economical fields.

One could carefully say, that artists have been less occupied with the formal aspects of art and more occupied with its potential for creating debate.

During the last years another tendency has become increasingly visible. We are witnessing the reappearance of the abstract, formal painting, and experiments in other media as well, with geometry, space and new renderings of perspective.

Interestingly, this formal approach does not necessarily lead to new forms of aesthetically autonomous art works, that excludes social references. All participating artists in On Perspective use actual conditions of society as an artistic starting point.

The exhibition will present both playful deconstructions of Renaissance perspective with the ordering of the picture as a spacious whole - and the emergence of fundamentally new interpretations of the concept of perspective in art.

Perspective today is not as much a practical method, as it is a metaphor, a powerful concept for ordering our perception and accounting for our subjectivity. Perspective has come to denote "point of view", a concept that describes how we view the world and constitute ourselves as viewing subjects. It is this double sense of the concept of perspective that characterizes the exhibition.

The participating artists in On Perspective are: Michael Bevilaqua, Cadence Giersbach, Benjamin Edwards, Robert Lazzarini, Tony Oursler, Ugo Rondinone, Jenny Saville and Fred Tomaselli.