"In her uncanny visages and sculptures, Malene Hartmann Rasmussen taps the ceramic medium as a form of make-believe. Surreal folkloric creatures take on absurd, sometimes cartoonish personalities, assembled from disparate plants and critters or reflecting characterful, mask-like qualities. In Rasmussen's playfully monstrous "Egg-head," for example, silly antics are equally unsettling-what's in its mouth? Where is the rest of its body?"
"And "Inner Beast #10" gives a disgusted side-eye that's open to interpretation. What does it find so offensive? By disturbing the boundaries between cuteness and abjection and the playful and unsettling, the artist invokes the power of imagination and the enigmatic atmosphere of fairytales. Her ongoing Trolls series combines natural objects like snail shells, eggs, leaves, and flowers into sage mysterious faces that give little indication of whether they're well-meaning or not."
Malene Hartmann Rasmussen molds uncanny visages and sculptures in ceramics that operate as a form of make-believe. Surreal folkloric creatures combine disparate plants and critters into absurd, sometimes cartoonish personalities with mask-like qualities. Playfully monstrous works like Egg-head provoke both silliness and unease, while pieces such as Inner Beast #10 present ambiguous expressions open to interpretation. The ongoing Trolls series assembles snail shells, eggs, leaves, and flowers into sage, mysterious faces that blur cuteness and abjection and summon the enigmatic atmosphere of fairytales. The works are included in Brutes at James Freeman Gallery in London, running through February 14.
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