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Teodor Bók: Generalen, 1997. Wood, 116 x 50 x 58 cm. Untitled, 2003. Wood, 103 x 35 x 38 cm.
The artist Teodor Bók was originally from Poland but he moved to Copenhagen where he lived
and worked for the rest of his life. With his background as a Polish Jewish refugee, Bók’s practice continually circled existential and moral questions of humankind and the human’s place in the world. In both his sculptural and painterly practice, Bók’s motives are influenced by beautiful universes that are often dislocated by unpleasant or gruesome additions. There is this duality in his works that also arise in the two sculptures. They carry references to historical bust portraits while they also have something supernatural about them which makes them scary and erratic. Bóks works are colored by a richness of detail and the decoding of them is happening gradually. As the works’ details are being studied, new meanings will continually appear.
Teodor Bók (1947-2007, PL/DK) lived in Copenhagen from 1972 until his death. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Copenhagen in 1976. He exhibited his works in his lifetime from the 1970s and on, and posthumously. Exhibition places count Brandts, DK; Galleri5000, DK, and Arden Asbæk Gallery, DK, among others. There have been two large retrospective exhibitions at SAK Art Association, DK, and Holmen Museum, DK. In connection with the last-mentioned exhibition, the book En kunstner krydser sit spor. Teodor Bók som flygtning og kunstner i Danmark by Helle and Michael Moesgaard Andersen was published.
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