BERLIN.- The Berlin-based art space Autocenter features Danish artist Claus Rasmussen with his new solo show “In Light We See ll”.

Rasmussen’s outstanding mixture of art & fashion will be presented during Fashion Week Berlin, and is the second part of an exhibition currently on view at Vilma Gold Gallery (London) presented by Neue alte brücke through January 17th. Rasmussen’s philosophy: color meets light, visuals meets audio, while the sound captures and embraces it all.

In this work, Rasmussen investigate how the color white is perceived in different ways, and the digital techniques for best optimizing, viewing, and evaluating the quality of white. Staged in a minimalistic cube with gray walls two loudspeakers stand in a conversation. An audio manual on “how to achieve 18% gray” is projected from the loudspeakers in a loop.

Presented on the walls are a series of white cotton weavings, each one-of-a-kind and all different in material. They invoke the importance of subtle qualities in fabric that tend to be overshadowed by more colorful counterparts.

The origins of Rasmussen’s examination date back to his teenage years when his mother gave him a sewing machine instead of buying him expensive clothes. He found in the gesture the power to create whatever he desired, even copying designer fashion. It was during this time when he first asked “What came first, original or copy?”

Lately, the artist has been collaborating with renowned contemporary art stars, such as Douglas Gordon and Kasper König, to organize a so-called “rag trade”. They are asked to sacrifice a favorite piece of clothing so that Rasmussen can create an almost identical replica of the given garment as a sculptural portrait. For him, something new can come into existence only after something else has been given up.

Rasmussen, a former tailor, offers an unmistakable mix of installation and minimalism, framed in the contexts of art and fashion.

Born in 1979 in Denmark, Claus Rasmussen lives and works in Berlin and New York. From 2005 to 2010 he studied at the Städelschule – State Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main, under Prof. Mark Leckey and Bonnie Camplin.

Solo shows: 2014: “In Light We See”, Vilma Gold presented by Neue alte brücke (London) // “I found over the years that a good place to work is between 240 and 250”, Tanya Leighton Gallery (Berlin) // 2012: “Makeup forever”, Gallery Neue Alte Brücke (Frankfurt am Main) // 2010: “1:33,3”, Gallery Cinzia Friedlaender (Berlin) // 2009: “The history of the white shirt”, Economy (London).

Group shows: 2013: “Would You Ever Write A Tract” Autocenter (Berlin) // “I.K.Y”, Museum of Modern Art Ireland IMMA (Ireland) // 2013: “Hi from California”, Freedman Fitzpatrick (Los Angeles) // 2010: “Geschmacksverstärker”, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main) // 2009: “Liste 09 The young art fair”, Gallery Neue Alte Brücke (Basel) // 2009: “All stone want to become a crystal”, Art Cph 09 – “State of the art” (Copenhagen) // 2007: “Come up to Carlsberg” (Vancouver) // 2007: “Scent”, Program (Berlin) // 2006: “100 Tage 100 Films”, Heidelberg Kunstverein (Heidelberg).