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Ferdinand Ahm Krag: Untitled, 2019. Oil on canvas, 140 x 110 cm.
Ferdinand Ahm Krag’s paintings are incredibly difficult to pin down. At first glance, they express
an abstraction that often creates associations with a landscape or patterning taken from nature. On closer inspection, the artist’s paintings fall apart to only reassemble again. A myriad of complex lines fills the picture surface and behave as a kind of network of interconnected threads acting both as organic blood vessels and industrial mechanical circuits. Ferdinand Ahm Krag’s paintings are complex and image-creating. They radiate enormous, energetic forces, and they construct impossible spaces where foreground and background merge, shift, dissolve and re-emerge. The spaces created in the paintings are opaque and difficult to understand. It is as if there are continuously up to several entrances in each work, and the spaces appear at once as three-dimensional constructions and as fragile cartographic drawings. Ferdinand Ahm Krag is interested in nature, its processes, and its connections, and he depicts these external logics in such a way that man’s innermost cognitions and processes are mirrored and evoked in his image.
Ferdinand Ahm Krag (1977 DK) studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and since 2018 he has worked as a professor there. Ferdinand Ahm Krag has exhibited his works both at home and abroad, and his works are part of the collections at e.g. The National Gallery of Art, Randers Art Museum, and Esbjerg Art Museum. Ferdinand Ahm Krag has created works for public spaces, including a decoration for Generationernes Hus in Aarhus, and in addition to his artistic practice, he also works as a writer and essayist.
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