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	1:1 The 1:1 projects are so far two projects about folded information, attempts to embrace much too big structures inside far too small rooms, the perception of dimensions, loss of information, deconstruction, meditation, chaos theory, utopian ideas, and megalomania...
	Drawing/shape of the Cathedral of Aarhus on the scale of 1:1 (Overgaden, Copenhagen, 2001) A full sized drawing of the southern front of the Cathedral of Aarhus, that is a paper object consisting of several very large sheets with a total area of about 3.600 square metres and with a total weight of about 700 kg. The drawing, that is done in black Indian ink on large webs that are glued together, is owing to its size impossible to show as a unfolded drawing. It is therefore folded and with that it is transformed from a two-dimensional work of art to a spatial object, a sculpture of piles of paper on the floor. Obviously the project holds a certain irrationality because the most of the precise and carefully executed information (the drawing of the cathedral) is folded, and one only have visual acces to a very little part of this. On the outside of the foldings here and there one can see a quarter of round arch, some brickwork, a half weathercock etc..., the rest is hidden or just meaningless lines and strokes. The piles of paper on the floor are shown together with a drawing of the cathedral on a scale of 1:100 (serigraphy on rubber) hanging on the wall, so that one can form an idea of the absolute size and magnitude of the large drawing. The object can be exhibited in many ways, either as many small piles, where eventually some are more unfolded than others, or quite ultimate with everything assembled as one huge and very folded pile.
	Line drawing/structure of Statens Museum for Kunst (the Danish national gallery) on the scale of 1:1 (Overgaden, Copenhagen, 2001) Line drawing/structure of the front of the Danish national Gallery (which is chosen because of its frontal monumentality). The drawing - or more technical correct: the structure - is not on any media (like paper for instance), but attempts to establish the line itself as a separate object and it consists only of thin, black pvc stripes at about 2-3 cm width, which are glued together. The structure represents precisely and correctly all the essential façade lines in full size down to a certain degree of detail. This façade structure is divided in several sections, and for the total structure more than 7 km pvc strip has been used. Only at the moment of the making, where the structure was laid out on a large floor and assembled, it was precise and intact according to the original building. Already at the folding and when the structure had to be winded up for transportation, it was exposed to huge loss of information, the structure more or less collapsed, and a major part of it could no longer be looked on as anyhing else than a lot of chaotic pvc stripes that are tangled up. Among the tangled stripes one can still find and catch a glimpse of the detached fragments of a system with capitals of columns, crossbars, roof construction etc. But the general impression has changed from a very sober and strictly logical structure to an almost decorative and expressionistic chaos of black lines in all directions. This work of art will take a processual course, because one can expect the loss of information will increase every time the structure is moved, so that already after the fourth or fifth exhibition it will be reduced to its ultimate state of chaos: one huge crowd together of entangled, black strips. In connection with the structure a drawing of the front of the Danish national gallery on a scale of 1:100 is shown, to which one can relate the present pvc stripes.

1:1

The 1:1 projects are so far two projects about folded information, attempts to embrace much too big structures inside far too small rooms, the perception of dimensions, loss of information, deconstruction, meditation, chaos theory, utopian ideas, and megalomania...

Drawing/shape of the Cathedral of Aarhus on the scale of 1:1
(Overgaden, Copenhagen, 2001)

A full sized drawing of the southern front of the Cathedral of Aarhus, that is a paper object consisting of several very large sheets with a total area of about 3.600 square metres and with a total weight of about 700 kg. The drawing, that is done in black Indian ink on large webs that are glued together, is owing to its size impossible to show as a unfolded drawing. It is therefore folded and with that it is transformed from a two-dimensional work of art to a spatial object, a sculpture of piles of paper on the floor. Obviously the project holds a certain irrationality because the most of the precise and carefully executed information (the drawing of the cathedral) is folded, and one only have visual acces to a very little part of this. On the outside of the foldings here and there one can see a quarter of round arch, some brickwork, a half weathercock etc..., the rest is hidden or just meaningless lines and strokes. The piles of paper on the floor are shown together with a drawing of the cathedral on a scale of 1:100 (serigraphy on rubber) hanging on the wall, so that one can form an idea of the absolute size and magnitude of the large drawing. The object can be exhibited in many ways, either as many small piles, where eventually some are more unfolded than others, or quite ultimate with everything assembled as one huge and very folded pile.

Line drawing/structure of Statens Museum for Kunst (the Danish national gallery) on the scale of 1:1
(Overgaden, Copenhagen, 2001)

Line drawing/structure of the front of the Danish national Gallery (which is chosen because of its frontal monumentality). The drawing - or more technical correct: the structure - is not on any media (like paper for instance), but attempts to establish the line itself as a separate object and it consists only of thin, black pvc stripes at about 2-3 cm width, which are glued together. The structure represents precisely and correctly all the essential façade lines in full size down to a certain degree of detail. This façade structure is divided in several sections, and for the total structure more than 7 km pvc strip has been used. Only at the moment of the making, where the structure was laid out on a large floor and assembled, it was precise and intact according to the original building. Already at the folding and when the structure had to be winded up for transportation, it was exposed to huge loss of information, the structure more or less collapsed, and a major part of it could no longer be looked on as anyhing else than a lot of chaotic pvc stripes that are tangled up. Among the tangled stripes one can still find and catch a glimpse of the detached fragments of a system with capitals of columns, crossbars, roof construction etc. But the general impression has changed from a very sober and strictly logical structure to an almost decorative and expressionistic chaos of black lines in all directions. This work of art will take a processual course, because one can expect the loss of information will increase every time the structure is moved, so that already after the fourth or fifth exhibition it will be reduced to its ultimate state of chaos: one huge crowd together of entangled, black strips. In connection with the structure a drawing of the front of the Danish national gallery on a scale of 1:100 is shown, to which one can relate the present pvc stripes.