LARS CHRISTENSEN – WORKS 2010–2014

Inbunden bok. –– FÖRLAGSNY! –– Narayana Press. 2014. 96 sidor.

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"Lars Christensen (b. 1972) is a Danish visual artist who works in various media and is most known for his innovations in Geometric Abstraction and his explorations into the subjective experience of colour. He is predominantly preoccupied with painting and sculpture, which are often included as part of serial sequences. Christensen expresses himself through simple, but at the same time, complex forms, thereby expanding the possibilities for interpretation. His practice is founded on an interest in the partially connected phenomenological and postmodernist currents in art theory, philosophy, literature, and sociology. Christensen lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He received an MFA from the School of Design in Kolding and studied at the College of Art and Design in Leeds.
• Christensen’s work is a study of painting as an artistic tradition. He explores its formal character and pictorial space, its limits and boundaries. Christensen’s works operate on the border between two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional sculpture, thus questioning traditional artistic categories. Christensen challenges the idea of art’s originality and universality. His works are not limited to universal interpretations. Instead, they make possible a diverse range of approaches and attitudes, whereby meaning is created and developed through dialogue and interaction.
• The solidity of his paintings is deliberately deconstructed and their meaning put up for debate through a craft-demanding process. Christensen lacerates his paintings with various cuts and holes from the back, and with force, presses acrylic paint through the canvas. On the front of the canvas, filaments appear organically across the surface. It is the print of the fracture that gives the acrylic paint its final sculptural shape. In this way, Christensen pushes the painting’s traditional picture space into the viewer’s actual space. Christensen thus places emphasis on tangible materials and the work’s outside space. His works are characterized by geometric networks and shapes, often painted in monochrome on a coloured canvas. They are further characterised by the biomorphic displacement of the paint emerging from the surface. Christensen’s works can be regarded as active principles that form their own meanings.
• Christensen emphasises the object character of the paintings rather than the pictorial illustration. In their simplicity, the works become complex through their abstract form. The simple structures raise questions about the interplay between the negative and positive spaces and the viewer’s interaction with the works in their immediacy. The viewer is encouraged to interact, and thus, experience the specific nature of the individual works. …" Rarity Gallery.

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