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Mie Olise Kjærgaard: Untitled, 2018. Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.
Mie Olise Kjærgaard is first and foremost a painter, but her practice also extends to larger installation works and to sculpture. Mie Olise Kjærgaard’s paintings are expressive, painted with broad and
clear brush strokes and with thick layers of paint. With a foundation in color surfaces, she builds up her motifs, which are always figurative but contain elements of abstraction. In the painting Untitled, the viewer is presented with an abstract and yet recognizable image. It is a landscape painting with large bodies of water on which people sail in canoe-like boats. Mie Olise Kjærgaard’s composition makes it difficult to assess what is up and down, and this effect creates a different depiction of nature. Here, we are not dealing with a naturalistic view of a geographical reality, but rather a dreamy world. Mie Olise Kjærgaard has an overall artistic interest in the structure of society, its architecture, and conditions, which she examines through her paintings and expands in a female historical perspective. She has traveled to countless parts of the world, and the inspiration from other cultures and peoples are reflected in her paintings, where elements of something alien and yet universally human are pictured.
Mie Olise Kjærgaard (1974 DK) studied at Central St. Martins in London and the School of Architecture in Aarhus. She has exhibited at the Trapholt Museum of Art and Design, DK; Nikolaj Kunsthal, DK; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, US; Museum of Fine Art Houston, US; Museo de Arte Acarigua, VE; Torrance Art Museum, US, and Himmerlands Kunstmuseum, DK, among others.
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