"Rudolph Tegner's men are facing a new era that must be conquered, while my men are rather the reaction to the vitalist effort that has set the agenda for the last 100 years. They stand on the other side of the modernity that Tegner sees coming. We are in a phase where we see and feel the consequences of the dominant growth narrative, both in nature and in the minds of people. It turned out that we could not keep up with the total optimization, and we are now looking for alternatives. ”

This is what Peter Ravn says about the exhibition The Fall, in 12 new works he reinterprets a number of Rudolph Tegner's sculptures, among other things by letting contemporary men from his own world of motifs occupy the same positions as Tegner's famous modeling of Heracles and Aphrodite, among others. For even though there is a hundred years of distance in time between the two artists, they are preoccupied with the same existential dramas and convey them with a focus on the ‘figure’.

FALDET, Peter Ravn

Pages: 76

Language: Danish

Text by: Luise Gomard, Signe Løntoft and Rasmus Lütken

Design: Nicolai Bejder Studio

Print and repro: Narayana Press

ISBN: 978-87-972781-5-4