Cube Light Green, 2005

Gitte Jungersen Born Denmark, 1967 Cube Light Green, 2005 Slab-built stoneware Purchased Galleri Noerby, Copenhagen, 2005. Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Art Society’s Scottish Arts Council lottery funded National Collecting Scheme for Scotland. Museum number 2005-71 In 1992, Jungersen founded the group "Junta" with fellow students Michael Geertsen and Morten Lshbner Espersen. Their work challenged the emphasis on form and function. Jungersen states that she is: "concerned with beauty and ugliness. I want to avoid a flat niceness and I believe that beauty has many layers that also include ugliness." In this work you can see where the thick glaze has reacted to the multiple firings in the heat of the kiln, bubbling and popping before hardening into this foaming texture, resembling lava. It is a texture that is reminiscent of the natural world, but thrown into the 21st century by its strident contemporary colouring. This work is on display in the Long Gallery.