05/09/2026
LAST DAY 📌
Tomorrow is the last day to visit the solo exhibition "Copies of real-life objects, tools and food" by , on view at Kunsthalle Zurich, curated by F***y Hauser.
Olesen’s works likewise superimpose different periods of time, by bringing classical still-life motifs like asparagus and lemons (Édouard Manet), fish (Gustave Courbet) or chickens (Francisco de Goya) into dialogue with everyday objects of contemporary consumer culture such as laptops and keyboards.
Translated into a variety of materials including plaster, silicone and acrylic and epoxy resins, some of the casts in the installation are painted, while others are left untouched. This cadence is interrupted by occasional painted readymades, increasingly dissolving categories of original and copy, representation and object. Form no longer appears as something abiding and unequivocal, but rather as something that can continually be digested and reconstituted through repetition, reproduction and material transformation.
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Henrik Olesen, "Copies of real-life objects, tools and food", Kunsthalle Zürich, 2026 Image: Cedric Mussano
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