September 12 - October 18, 2003

Ib Braase (1923) is one of Denmarks most recognized artists. Still his works are unknown for most people. In 1989 he experienced a great deal of interest and attention, as he decorated the Danish Library in Flensborg. The libraryboard who had commisioned the work Studio between boundaries found the work ugly and demanded it removed.

Luckily, the work of art is still standing. Perhaps the board is now able to appreciate its quality, which is truly far from the slick chromed sculptures or different variations carved in granite you to see standing in public space.

But the works of Ib Braase have probably also gotten easier to approach, understand and appreciate in the meantime. The public has during the last couple of years seen parallel examples on artists, who make use of a vocabularium of sculpture which are like Braases. The American artist Louise Bourgeois works with some of the same private memory scenarios in her sculptures as Braase. And at an artist like Frans West you see a considerable abount of like formelements. Seen in this light Braases works posseses a renew actuality.