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Lars Dan: Painting, 2015-2018. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.
Lars Dan is an untraditional painter. He works with oil on canvas, but his artworks have neither recognizable motif, brushstrokes, or an even surface. Dan’s paintings are alien. They appear as reliefs because the oil paint is applied in large, heavy splotches which grow out of the canvas’ surface. In this way he builds his paintings; often with a spatula or with his hands and always with a heavy amount of paint giving the finished piece both a visual and physical weight. The artwork Painting is an example on how Dan works with colour and paint. How he builds up the work in different layers of colour which both overshadow and complement each other. And how he with the volume of the paint creates a physical force which gives the painting the expression of being a sculptural size that takes up space and is bodily present.
Lars Dan (1960, DK) graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen in 1982. Dan’s works are represented at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DK; The National Museum of Arts, DK and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, DK, among others. He has exhibited at countless ex-hibition spaces in Denmark and abroad. He had his debut at only 15 years old at the censured exhibi-tion The Artists’ Fall Exhibition in Copenhagen.
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