It seems that Danish artist Kathrine Ærtebjerg has set herself the task of painting the lived experience of existentiality, identity and sexuality as seen through a dream prism; one which refracts reality in a
phantasmatic manner and allows us to view it in surprising but recognisable ways that cause it to look entirely magical.
Ærtebjerg creates images, which combine different and contradictory expressions: the naive, the vulgar, the expressive, the humourous, the spiritual, the cloying. The apparently childish universe that is conjured up in clear and radiant colours is however in no respect innocent or simpel, but rather complex and ambiguous.
Ærtebjerg's paintings may at a superficial glance resemble the enchanted iconography of the children's fairytale, but a warning should be inserted that this material is for adults, even though the borderland
between these two states, that of the child and the adult, is in a sense a fundamental theme.
This richly illustrated book surveys Ærtebjerg's work from the past decade through essays written by Art Historians Barry Schwabsky, Ann Lumbye Sørensen and Rune Gade.
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1. Aufl. Text in: Englisch, Dänisch. - / Danish artist Kathrine Ærtebjerg has set herself the task of painting the lived experience of existentiality, identity and sexuality as seen through a dream prism . (Original-eingeschweisstes Ex. - verlagsfrisch! / new - in original wrapping) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1500 ill. OLeinen / Hardcover (cloth). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 405237
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> That Artebjerg's work is concerned with childhood is self-evident. Not only do the figures she depicts often look childlike, but they are befriended by animal familiars like the protagonists of fairy tales and cartoons. We can allow this childlike aspect to charm us but that does not mean that as viewers we can curselves afford to adopt a false naivete in our own approach to the pain- tings. What would constitute such a naive approach? Two possibilities either to approach the paintings with an affected innocence, as if they were inviting sos to play some beguiling but inconsequential game with them, or to approach them in the pompous spirit of a pretentious maturity that imagines that it is above all these childish concerns. One approach misses the point as much as the other although at least the first might be more fun. But either one would miss the subtle ambivalence of the work. That's the perspective that allows one to enser the work as perhaps its maker did-in a s. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Batch-FM452-VG-10205
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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. Hardcover.Width: 30 cm. Height: 25cm. 160 pages. English text. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19295
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