All welcome on October 23!

Below you find the invitation and press release from The Charlottenborg Foundation /

You are hereby invited to the opening of a new site-specific work by the Danish artist Ida Wieth on October 23 in Deep Forest Art Land. Ida Wieth won this year's Deep Forest Art Land Award at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2021 and has - as part of the award - created a new site-specific work for Deep Forest Art Land in Kibæk. The exhibition is part of a new partnership between the Charlottenborg Foundation and Deep Forest Art Land, which aims to strengthen artists' opportunities to develop their practice and create solo presentations in a professional setting.

For Deep Forest Art Land, Ida Wieth has created the site-specific work Double Down, which consists of a whole of glass elements shaped like tubes, which in a layered structure appear with a perspective-distorted and almost kaleidoscopic effect. The work was created at Holmegaard Glasværk.

Ida Wieth makes use of classically learned craft skills based on the tradition-bound mouth-blown glass, and continues to push the boundaries of the material's possibilities in an artistic context. She works in a sculptural and conceptual way that revolves around concepts such as time, variability and course with literary and art historical references.

The title of the work Double Down refers to acting with increased determination, just as the glass elements themselves consist of a duality of two fused tubes. In the meeting between the two parts, they are separated by a glass barrier which is underlined with iron powder. The units apparently have similar preconditions, but will be part of, and are affected differently by the seasons - the work will thus gradually change its character due to the passage of time and nature. The layered structure of the glass simulates a forest in itself - like transparent trunks and branches, with a floating expression. The work thus mimics several elements from the forest, and subscribes to the cycle and transience of nature, with both an inherent strength and fragility.