HENRIK HAVE(EDITION AFTER HAND)05-17.04.1974

During 5–17 April 1974 the Danish artist Henrik Have is exhibiting at Galerie S:t Petri. It is the first time his works are shown in Sweden.
He has carried out numerous “manifestations” in Denmark, France, England and the USA, written novels, made films, and created multi-objects. His way of working is highly specific and, for many, perhaps difficult to grasp.
The art critic Jane Pedersen from Denmark is well acquainted with the issues many contemporary artists engage with. She writes, among other things: “Henrik Have’s works may seem inaccessible, closed. They certainly are, as long as one tries to find the meaning that Have himself has put into them. Then one goes astray. … The closed quality is precisely an expression of the fact that his works must be interpreted entirely according to the viewer’s own conditions, and that one must carry out a work upon oneself before one is capable of experiencing them. Then the closedness disappears. … Henrik Have’s works, like much visual art of recent years, establish an open psychic field, a field for total perception, in which the individual work, the artist and the act of creation form a unity. It is within this total field of consciousness that a person regains his identity, his personhood, and his history.”
The exhibition is open weekdays 15:00–20:00, Saturdays and Sundays 12:00–17:00.