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Erik Hed: Untitled, 2019.
Casein, pigment, and charcoal on silk canvas, 180 x 145 cm.
Erik Hed’s works are often paintings in unconventional materials. His use of charcoal, pigments, and casein gives the canvas a tactile texture and a relief-like effect. In Untitled, the red color becomes the background for the black and blue accumulations of material, and the expression creates connections to the psychedelic. Erik Hed is interested in how we read and decode an image. The artist’s paintings are based on collected images and objects, which he transforms into new expressions that are completely removed from their origins. Rather than working with figures and narratives, he turns
to the painting’s simplest components, its strokes, and its concrete formations. Here, he finds an expression that almost mimics a written form or character construction. The repetitions and twists of the forms give the impression that the work can be read, but with Erik Hed, the artistic investigation lies in exploring the unreadable. Form and material remain as a testimony to the image’s elements and its qualities.
Erik Hed (1987 SE) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 2020. He has, among other things, exhibited his works at OK Corral, DK; Richard Winther’s House, DK; Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK, and Magasin Lotus, DK.
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