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Anders W. Ø. Larsen: Colere, 2006.
Collage, oil, and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 160 cm. The Old Walk, 2006.
Collage, oil, and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 160 cm.
In Anders W. Ø. Larsen’s paintings, the abstract and the figurative exist side by side. The artist starts his paintings by intuitively dousing the canvas with paint and then comes up with his compositions. It is a grip that allows unforeseen and unreal motifs to emerge. Colere is the name of an Italian mountain town, and the landscape that Anders W. Ø. Larsen has painted is also characterized by snow-covered and hazy mountains on the horizon which is also the case with The Old Walk. The two landscape paintings deviate from the classical and naturalistic landscape understandings associated with the genre. These are enigmatic and strange landscapes. Impossible to place geographically and difficult to navigate in. Anders W. Ø. Larsen often incorporates collage elements in his works, and in both paintings small cut-out people are wandering through the landscape creating an extra layer in the works. The cut-out figures are very small compared to the large nature spaces in which they move, and Anders W. Ø. Larsen’s landscapes appear at once as a reference to romanticism’s sublime understanding of nature, where man’s encounter with the landscape, its energies, and forces, instilled an existential insight into the greatness of nature and man’s imperfect and perishable life.
Anders W. Ø. Larsen (1974 DK) studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has exhibited his works at Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK; West Jutland Art Pavilion, DK; Skive Art Museum, DK; Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, DK; Gallery Leger, SE; Horsens Art Museum, DK and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, DK. He has decorated Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, and his works are part of the collections at Skive Art Museum and the New Carlsberg Foundation.
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