ARTIST RIKKE DARLING
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art implies a confidence in the power of abstraction, the complex and subtle, where something un articulate in us is met with an inspiring energy. With my art, I want to move the viewer with my worldview of nature in man – and the human being in nature. It is a story that we humans are nature and part of a complicated universal pattern in which the surroundings on an energy level merge with the senses, emotions and thoughts.
We move in the science art category (SciArt), where I investigate and express something about the world. I reduce a scientific or aesthetic concept down to fewer and simpler elements to investigate a lot more closely. I use this reductionist approach in my art in both form and colour, where I examine individual components to uncover a more complex phenomenon. I seek to elicit a sensual and emotional realization in the viewer.
In my art, I take advantage of nature's flow, where large amounts of water make shapes liquid and vibrant. I use the laws of nature to create movements and crackles. Ramifications emerge as new beginnings and follow the universal pattern of a fractal stud shooting. The cells are the building blocks of nature and the foundation of all life. All living things are made up of cells. The human body is constantly changing from the first cell formation, where the stem cells are the basis of our complex organism.
I see the world holistically with a focus on the whole. Man and everything in the world is inextricably linked. I am fascinated by the patterns and connections of nature between micro- and macrocosm. The patterns in nature are repeated in a fractal geometry, where they are embedded in each other and repeated in large and small. The fractal patterns apply both to nature's simple organisms and to the more complex ones, and thus also apply to us humans.
In quantum physics, we have learned that all we thought was physical is energy. Everything in the universe consists of intangible energy, and everything radiates energy. A work of art – and also colors exude energy. But also any sense, emotion, thought or life-depletion is a result of energy. Our minds live and gain daily energy from our surroundings and with my art, I want to contribute with a sensual stimuli, an inspiring energy and perhaps even new realizations.
Rikke Darling
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Gallery Beck, Easter Exhibition, Brønderslev, Denmark
2021 Gallery ArtCompaz, Easter Exhibition, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2020 K2 Art, Dronninglund Art Centre, Denmark
2020 Christmas Exhibition, ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2020 Affordable Art Fair, EOTW Gallery, Milan, Italy
2019 Affordable Art Fair, EOTW Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Christmas Exhibition, Gallery Saphere Aude, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Black As Ink, Exhibition Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Gallery ArtCompaz, With the globe in Centrum, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2019 Art Bodensee, Van Gogh Gallery, Dornbirn, Austria
2019 Art Collection, Lyngby, Denmark
2019 Gallery ArtCompaz, Easter Exhibition, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2019 Easter Exhibition, Art Gallery, Slagelse, Denmark
2019 The Final Exhibition, Axel Towers, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Gallery Beck, Easter Exhibition, Brønderslev, Denmark
2019 Affordable Art Fair, EOTW Gallery, London, England
2018 "Infinite Potentials" SciArt Center, New York Hall of Science, USA2018 Christmas Exhibition, Art Gallery, Slagelse, Denmark
2018 Gallery ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2018 Gallery Rasch, Rønne, Denmark
2018 Gallery Beck, Brønderslev, Denmark
2018 ARTe, Sindelfingen, Germany
2017 The Other Artfair, London, England
2017 Alchemic Body, Gallery Laura Haber, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 Hyde Opening, DAM, Hallandale Beach, USA
2017 Gallery ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2017 K2 - Dialogues, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Superfine, DAM, Miami, USA
2016 Amaris, Solo, Indonesia
2016 Gallery Beck, Brønderslev, Denmark
2016 Gallery Subworks, Fredensborg, Denmark
2016 Gallery ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2015 Towards the Days of Tomorrow, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2015 Webbing Project, Museum of Osaka University, Japan
2015 Artmoney, Bredgade 22, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 MAX A5, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 SAK, Svendborg, Denmark
2014 YOS, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2014 "Contemplation" Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 MAX A5, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Nordic Artists, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Gallery K. Jacobsson, Sweden
2014 Danish/Svenska Kompaniet, Sweden
2014 ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2014 K2Kunst, Copenhagen City Hall, Denmark
2014 Gallery V58, Aarhus, Denmark
2013 Dansk Svenska Kompaniet, Sweden
2013 K2Kunst, Copenhagen City Hall, Denmark
2013 Kunstcentrum, Silkeborg, Denmark
2013 Gallery V58, Aarhus, Denmark
2012 Gallery G3, Gelstrup, Denmark
2012 ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2012 Gallery Viglowa, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Art for all, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 Kunstcentrum, Silkeborg, Denmark
2011 Kunst2100 - Docken, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2011 GalleryV58, Aarhus, Denmark
2011 A tribute to life, Round Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 FUGA Artist Association, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2010 Gallery V58, Aarhus, Denmark
2010 ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2009 Gallery X, Gentofte, Denmark
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 "Summer Exhibition" Gallery Skagen, Skagen, Denmark
2018 "Fall", Artcompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2018 "Nature in Human" Art Gallery, Slagelse, Denmark2018 Baerely design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Gallery North, Denmark
2016 Svinkloev Badehotel, Denmark
2016 Gallery Lulu, Eskildstrup, Denmark
2014 Galeri Canna, Jakarta, Indonesia
2014 Gallery Viglowa, Tokyo, Japan.
2014 Danish/Svenska Kompaniet, Sweden
2014 Gallery Glasseriet, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Gallery Viglowa, Tokyo, Japan2013 Gallery Wenneberg, Køge, Denmark
2013 Gallery ArtCompaz, frederiksberg, Denmark
2012 Gallery Viglowa, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Gallery V58, Aarhus, Denmark
2011 Gallery ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2010 Sophienberg Castle, Rungsted, Denmark
2010 Køge Gallery, Køge, Denmark
2010 ArtCompaz, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2009 Cobra Gallery, Charlottenlund, Denmark
BIOLOGICAL PAINTINGS
Biological art lies on the boundary between art and science. I always had a fascination for biology, and when I was a teenager, I was sure I was going to be a biologist or a doctor. However, I became an artist instead, but my paintings always have a biological theme. The paintings are about micro- and macrobiology – about nature's basic patterns, the flow of water, ramifications, bud shootings, DNA, stem cells and viruses.
I work with both doctors and biologists, who help me get microscope photos to inspire my paintings. My art hangs in many medical clinics, dentists and psychologists, and I have performed great artistic decorations at the pharmaceutical company SaxoSmithKline and at four psychiatric hospitals in Denmark. I am a member of the SciArt Initiative and have exhibited my art at New York Hall and Science.