Posts Tagged 'description'

Mirabelle Two branches and the colours of red, yellow, blue, and green. The branches are from the Mirabelle tree, the tree with stem spines and yellow or red fruits. A tree which has seldom been planted by anyone but which

POP The object of this series is the seed capsules from the plant Large-leaved Lupine. And it brought itself into focus … One day when I was resting outside, I heard a sound. First, it was far away, and something

A leaf consists of leaf tissue and veins. The veins are the leaf’s “blood vessels,” which lead water and nutrients through the leaves. The veins also support the leaf itself. One could say that they are the skeleton of the

Arch, 2026 The first arch I made… When I drew the first arch, my mind was empty… I thought it had come out of nowhere. I felt relieved… But then I realized that I had made several arches before… and

RE-invert From 1989 to 1992 Jan Skovgård visited art museums all over Europa. From the Joensu Art Museum in Finland to Prado in Madrid, from the Uffizi in Florence to the Tate Gallery in London. During his travels Jan Skovgård

Wild Rose, 2019 With reference to Devils II, 2017. The subject of this series is the roots of the Rugosa Rose. It is also called Beach Rose, and in Denmark it comes under the designation “vildrose” (translated: Wild Rose). Perhaps

RE-flower 8 The series introduces roses – roses in bags. One night when I lay awake on-off, as I often do, an image came to my mind, with a reference to Olga Rozanova’s “Green Stripe” from 1918. The subject of

RE-late 3 The current series is a “generational work” based on another series, RE-late 1, which in turn is based on one of my earlier works, Sound of Picture from 1993. Sound of Picture is a sound work in which

RE-flower 21 I live in the countryside of Denmark. At the end of my property, I have an orangerie from where I have a view to the fields. That’s where this series was born. It is a landscape of land,

Civilization 2 Da jeg i 1994 udgav bogen The Grand Tour (note 1), var det med et maleri af en blomsterbuket på omslaget. Motivet valgte jeg, fordi buketten som begreb, en samling, repræsenterer noget af det, jeg ville med mine

Plus/Minus, 2021 Consider this … Plus: Is there anything that has gone well… a success? Minus: A failure… something that you wish you had handled differently? The current series is intended as a confessional… or a mirror with plus/minus signs,

RE-flower 11 Vorter kan bekæmpes med dens saft, og hvis man plukker den for at bringe den ind som buket, klasker den sammen. Blomsten lukker sig og stænglen bliver slap som om den ikke vil finde sig i dens slags