{"id":82832,"date":"2020-05-25T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nivaagaard.dk\/saerudstilling\/untitled-fortune-cookie-corner-danh-vo-og-felix-gonzalez-torres\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:58:18","slug":"untitled-fortune-cookie-corner-danh-vo-og-felix-gonzalez-torres","status":"publish","type":"saerudstilling","link":"https:\/\/nivaagaard.dk\/en\/special-exhibitions\/untitled-fortune-cookie-corner-danh-vo-og-felix-gonzalez-torres\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201dUntitled\u201d (Fortune Cookie Corner) – Danh Vo og Felix Gonzalez-Torres"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201dUntitled\u201d (Fortune Cookie Corner) <\/span><\/h1>\n

\u2013 Danh Vo og Felix Gonzalez-Torres<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May 25. – July 5. 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the Nivaagaard Art Collection lies a pile of a thousand fortune cookies. The installation is part of a worldwide exhibition of the 1990 work, \u201cUntitled\u201d (Fortune Cookie Corner), by the ground-breaking Cuban-American artist, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996). A selection of 1,000 people from around the world have been invited to each install 240 to 1,000 fortune cookies in a place of their choice. The invitation comes from the Andrea Rosen Gallery and David Zwirner Gallery, New York, and the project takes place from the 25th of May until the 5th of July 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of those invited is Danish-Vietnamese artist, Danh Vo, and he has chosen the Nivaagaard Art Collection as his location. The exhibition opened around the world on the 25<\/span>th<\/sup> of May and can be experienced in person at the Art Collection from the 26<\/span>th<\/sup> of May, when the museum reopened.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the exhibition project\u2019s press release it was stated as such:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIndividuals are welcome to take from the work, and each pile is restored (with the same amount of fortune cookies at the time of initiation) halfway through the exhibition, the 14<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> of June. When the exhibition ends on the 5<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> of July, the leftover fortune cookies are no longer a part of the work.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The exhibition acknowledges this unique period in history and reflects the eternal relevance and flexibility that characterises Felix Gonzalez-Torres\u2019 art. Like much of his work, \u201cUntitled\u201d (Fortune Cookie Corner) touches upon the possibility of immortality through resurrection, signified by the experience of loss embedded in the works.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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DANH VO PRESENTS<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The contribution to \u201cUntitled\u201d (Fortune Cookie Corner) is to be seen independently from the exhibition which Danh Vo presents at the Art Collection from the summer of 2020. However, Felix Gonzalez-Torres is one of the artists that has meant a lot to Danh Vo, and Gonzalez-Torres will also be amongst the artists from Danh Vo\u2019s personal collection, which he will present this summer. This is the initiation of a three-year collaboration between the international star artist, Danh Vo, and the Nivaagaard Art Collection, under the title: <\/span>DANH VO PRESENTS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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As a child, Danh Vo and his family fled from Vietnam and ended up in Niv\u00e5. Today, he lives between Mexico and Berlin, and has the whole world as his stage. He has represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale and held a major solo exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York. He now returns to Niv\u00e5 where, over the next few summers, he will present his favourite international artists who constitute his own art collection, at times supplemented with borrowed works. For there are indeed two exciting collectors from Niv\u00e5 \u2013 namely, museum founder, Johannes Hage, and Danh Vo.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the project, <\/span>DANH VO PRESENTS<\/em>, we meet Vo\u2019s own favourite artists at the museum in Niv\u00e5 over a number of years. This first summer, Danh Vo will gather works from his art collection in an installation created for the Nivaagaard Art Collection. The exhibition will be set up as soon as the coronavirus pandemic allows for artworks and artist to arrive, and is expected to open in the beginning of July.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Danh Vo and the Nivaagaard Art Collection<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Danh Vo\u2019s work often refers to his past as a Vietnamese boat refugee which he intertwines with collective world history. Vo and his family fled on a homemade boat in 1979. They were rescued by a Danish Maersk ship and stayed at a refugee camp in Singapore before being granted asylum in Denmark in 1980. Here, the family lived in Niv\u00e5 for many years, where Danh Vo went to the local school until he was kicked out of eighth grade. He has since graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1998-2002) and the St\u00e4delschule in Frankfurt (2002-2005).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vo\u2019s art commonly revolves around the notion of one\u2019s career and identity being created by great cultural and political factors beyond the individual\u2019s control. His work often employs archaeological and cultural-historical elements in the form of recovered items and traces of the past, which have connections to large-scale historical events or small personal experiences. The collaboration between Vo and the Nivaagaard Art Collection \u2014 which he, at the time, visited with his class \u2014 thus signifies an extension of his artistic approach in which his own biography plays a central role.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The exhibition series, DANH VO PRESENTS<\/em>, is funded by Det Obelske Familiefond in 2020-2022.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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