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3/31/2014
Florian Meisenberg
Den højdesyge af Marquis de Lessert
Avlskarl Gallery is pleased to announce Florian Meisenberg's first solo show with the gallery.
In 1789, during a walk, the Marquis of Lessert drank water from the Sainte Catherine spring on the land of a Mr. Cachat. The marquis,
who was allegedly suffering from kidney and liver problems, drank the
water regularly while he walked, and claimed that his health improved.
Encouraged by Lessert’s advocacy of the
‘miraculous’ water, local doctors began to prescribe it as a health
remedy. In response to the growing success of the water, Mr Cachat
fenched off his spring and began selling the water. The first baths
appeared i 1824. The name of the spring was changed from Sainte
Catherine to the Cachat Source. Two years later, the Duke of Savoy gave
his permission to start bottling water from the spring and in 1829 the
first Société des Eaux Minérales (Mineral Water company) was founded. In
1859 the business became a public company as the “Société anonyme des
beaux minérales de Cachat” and a year later it became French when Savoy
was incorporated into France. The French Ministry of Health reauthorized
the bottling of Cachat water on the recommendation of the Medicine
academy in 1878. In 1909 Evian water began to be sold in glass bottles.
In 1995 Evian switched to collapsible PET bottles.
Altitude
sickness - also known as AMS (acute mountain sickness) - is a
pathological effect on high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure
in an environment with low partial pressure of oxygen. It commonly
occurs above 2,400 metres, but can also occur in lower altitude. It’s
hard to determine who will be affected, as there are no specific factors
that correlate with a susceptibility to altitude sickness. Several of
factors can occur at the same time, but headache is often the first
identifiable symptom. Some of the primary ‘unspecific’ symptoms to
diagnose altitude sickness are lack of appetite, fatigue, insomnia,
dizziness, nosebleed, nausea, edema etc. In extreme cases altitude
sickness can be fatal.
Florian Meisenberg (born
1980 in Berlin) lives and works in New York. He graduated from
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Peter Doig from 2004 to
2010. Meisenberg has exhibited his work at numerous of museums and art
galleries, among others Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Wilhelm Hack Museum,
Ludwigshafen, KW Kunstwerke Berlin, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Simone
Subal Gallery, New York, Queens Museum of Art, New York, Tanja Pol
Galerie, Munich and Kate MacGarry Gallery, London. Upcoming shows:
Wentrup Gallery, Gallery Weekend Berlin, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel,
Galerie Václava Špály, Prague and Mendes Wood, São Paulo.
His comprehensive monograph titled http://www.liveleak.
His work is recently
included in the exhibition Dreamland at KUNSTEN in Aalborg. Meisenberg
has received several prizes, including Kunstpreis Junger Westen (2013),
the NRW Förderpreis and the Arbeitsstipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds in
Bonn.
Opening: Thursday 27 March at 5-7 pm.
Exhibition period: Friday 28 March - 15 May 2014.
Avlskarl Gallery. Bredgade 28. 1260 Kbh. K.
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-5. Saturday 12-3.
For further information please contact Anette Lindbøg Karlsen at art@avlskarl.com
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