It is the last day of Copenhagen Art Week, which as every year opens the dances to a new season in the art world. This year, the undisputed novelty was the new Enter Art Fair next to the historic Chart. It was Enter Art Fair sculpture project that promoted the work ‘12 signs for a park’ by the British artist duo John Wood and Paul Harrison represented by Basel-based Swiss gallery Von Bartha. Known for their use of words – but not only, think of their video performances or their neon lettering – the works of the duo Wood and Harrison are ironic and conceptual with the intention of questioning the obvious or underlining the predictable. The typically British sense of humour is perceptible and these phrases made us smile but also reflect. After all, you will forget this day – as one of the signs on display until today 1st September in Copenhagen reads.

Biography

Paul Harrison (Wolverhampton, 1966), John Wood (Hong Kong, 1969), have been working together in video art since 1993. They have exhibited at the MoMA in New York; the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston; the Frist Centre in Nashville; the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver; the Mori Art Museum and the ICC in Tokyo; the OCAT Museum in Shanghai; the Tate Britain and the Whitechapel Gallery in London; the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham; the Centre Pompidou and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; the CCA Wattis in San Francisco; the Ludwig Museum in Budapest; the Kunstverein in Arnsberg; and the Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland. Their works can be found in public and private collections, such as the Tate Gallery in London, the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou and the Kadist Foundation in Paris, the Ludwig Collection in Aachen, the British Council Collection, the Arts Council Collection, the Government Art Collection, the FNAC in France. They have been represented by Studio Trisorio since 2009.