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Magnus Andersen: Opstilling med pølsebrød og serviet (Tableau with sausage bread and napkin), 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 55 x 65 cm.
To paint everyday life is a central point in Magnus Andersen’s artistic practice. Even though his motifs are always well-known, he creates displacements between representation and painterly expression. He does this using color and by creating visually interesting spaces that seem possible and impossible at the same time. Magnus Andersen uses painting to imagine other worlds. He investigates the relations between image and representation and in this connection, he also uses symbols in his paintings. Historically, painting has been used as a tool of communication that has carried both pedagogical and educating qualities and the visual language of our present is colored by such potentials which Magnus Andersen experiments with and stretches in a contemporary artistic perspective.
Magnus Andersen (1987 DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. He studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and Städelschule in Frankfurt. Magnus Andersen has exhibited at Neue Alte Brücke, DE; Gio Marconi, IT; Kunstverein Wiesbaden, DE; Bianca D’Alessandro, DK; Tranen, DK, and Petzel Gallery, US, among others. His works are part of the collections at SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, DK; Sønderjylland Museum of Art, DK, and Collection European Central Bank, DE. Magnus Andersen runs the exhibition space Bizarro with Louis Scherfig and Mai Dengsøe. He is represented by the gallery Palace Enterprise in Copenhagen.
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