So “Vandringer”, my solo art exhibit, is up.
Thirty-four paintings in all. Mainly oil, but quite a few watercolors. And three reproductions of my dry media drawings. Lining three walls of Kulturhus Måløv’s Exhibit space, which is also the meeting hall. They will be up until May 31, and can be viewed during staffed library hours.
The photo shows me against the section of wall I’ve devoted to Måløv’s landscapes. I noticed that on my walks, I tended to take pictures during the “golden hour”, regardless of the time of year. So I decided to try and paint the slanting light of late afternoon, which turns whatever surfaces it touches into a beautiful glowing hue while the rest of the scene lies in shadow.
I’m standing a distance from the wall, so the paintings look small. In reality, they are 50x60 cm, 50x50 cm, 50x40 cm and 40x30cm. The stack of planks is scheduled to be removed in a couple of days and is unrelated to the exhibition.
Below is the English original of the promotional text we sent to Kulturhus Måløv.
Vandring
Måløv artist Bing Sitoy presents “Vandring”, an exhibition of paintings in drawings at Kulturhus Måløv, Måløv Hovedgade 60, 2760 Måløv, 1 – 31 May 2024.
The paintings in the exhibition showcase her fascination with the landscapes around Måløv, which she encounters on her frequent walking tours, or “wanderings” – its Bronze age burial mounds, its centuries-old church and its bogs that reflect the sky, which the ancients viewed as a transition space between the earthly and the spiritual world.
In counterpoint to these views, which are very much rooted in a specific place, are several seascapes, in which she presents the land and the ocean as something timeless and almost abstract. These were inspired by the tropical waterscapes of her childhood and her travels to exotic locales.
Water figures a lot in her paintings, whether it is the still, glassy surface of a pond or the shimmering ocean.
The exhibition also contains several portraits of the artist’s family members and friends, done in a realistic style.
“I strive to capture the mood of the moment, whether it is the joy of a baby experiencing the sea for the first time, or a young girl lost in the world of her mobile phone,” Bing says. “I’m primarily a story-teller, and each painting feels like a moment in a short story or novel. The human face is like a book, if we care to read it.”
The exhibition consists primarily of oil and watercolor paintings and of drawings in pastel.
Måløv has been Bing’s home since 2008. She works as an English teacher at Studieskolen in Copenhagen and paints in her spare time. Before moving to Denmark, she was a journalist and literature teacher in the Philippines.
She has published two collections of short stories and a novel. The latter, Sweet Haven, has been translated into Danish with the title Sweethaven-sagen, translated by Vagn Plenge. Both the novel and the children's book Nataberne, illustrated by Lilian Brøgger, are published by Forlaget Hjulet in Måløv. In addition, some of her short stories have been translated and included in anthologies in the Philippines and abroad.
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