Page 68 - Art at Mayfair Hotel Tunneln

Thomas Bangsted: Anchor Bay, 2006-2008. C-print, 149 x 182.9 cm, edition of 3.
In his artistic practice, Thomas Bangsted mainly works with landscape photography. Through several years of developments in technique and research methods, he has cultivated a course of slow and meticulous image processing that places itself far away from that which we normally would associate with qualities of photography – the fast snapshot of a fleeting impression. Bangsted’s photos are created over a long period where he repeatedly photographs at the same place and thereafter digitally layers the many photos on top of each other. It can take many years for him to create a finished work and the result is a photo with clarity in detail and at times an almost surrealistic expression. Bangsted’s work Anchor Bay has been two years underway and is created of photos that have been shot in both Canada and the US Midwest.
Thomas Bangsted (1976, DK) lives in New York and has an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Arts, 2007, and a post-graduate diploma from Goldsmiths College, London. Bangsted has a long series of exhibitions behind him at institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, US; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DK; Brandts, DK; Marc Straus, US; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, US, and The Bronx Museum of Art, US. His work is part of the collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, US; Schloss Kummerow, DE; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DK; Brandts, DK, and The Danish Arts Foundation. Bangsted is represented by Marc Straus, US, and Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK.
68