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Birgitte Lund <\/strong>-Artist Statement

Archeological Pictorial Landscapes \u2013 by Birgitte Lund


The medium is painting and I work in series.

My work revolves around the discovery of pictorial landscapes \u2013 like an archeologist uncovering but in reverse order.

The landscapes are built up through many textured layers.  Tracks are left behind on absorbent or repellent surfaces.  Lines, marks, calcified figures from my graphical sketches, drawings and earlier works form landmarks on the surface.

Materials such as cement, fluid rubber, chalk, and shellac are used to lay a grid of expressive tracks.  Forms and figures are often covered, revealed and then minimized again, before being emphasized, transformed and made solid.  This grid of fragmented stories and implied figures is what I call the pictorial, archeological landscape.

When the landscape of each picture is fully \u201cdis-excavated\u201d, color takes over.  The final color composition is built-up from many layers of glazing \u2013 in some places transparent to emphasize the underlying story and in other areas covered, powerful and dominant. The \u201cskeleton story\u201d in the landscape of the picture is fused together with color, which acts as the body to merge the many layers into one.

Psychedelic Landscapes and The Relief of Horizontal Lines are two themes that I have worked with since 2006.  A two-year period in New York City provided the inspiration and fascination for dividing the surface into horizontal lines and compose landscape paintings.

In New York I was inspired, fascinated, captivated and overwhelmed by the bombardment of vertical lines. I found myself longing for and often seeking natural, flat (and homely) experiences, which led to the prevalence of powerful horizontal lines in my work.

My paintings are devised as serial building blocks that can be combined together to complement a space.  The elements multiply into a larger work, that flows horizontally and vertically according to the shape and expression of the room.

Singularly or together the works manifest as a pictorial landscape into which the viewer enters.  A landscape that can both appeal to the viewer\u2019s own \u201cstories\u201d, and \u201cplay with\u201d the specific space the paintings are hanging in.<\/p>\r\n

Birgitte Lund <\/strong>\u2013 Kunstnerisk Praksis

Det billedlige ark\u00e6ologiske landskab


Min kunstneriske praksis er maleri og jeg arbejder i serier.

I mit kunstneriske arbejde, kredser jeg om at afs\u00f8ge og afd\u00e6kke det billedlige landskab. Som en ark\u00e6olog afs\u00f8ger et fysisk omr\u00e5de, \u2013 bare i omvendt r\u00e6kkef\u00f8lge.

Maleriet bliver bygget op gennem mange teksturerede lag. Spor afsat p\u00e5 sugende eller afvisende overflader. Linier, tegn, indimellem kalkerede og overf\u00f8rte figurationer fra mine grafiske skitser, tegninger og sort\/hvid fotografier markerer og former orienteringspunkter p\u00e5 overfladen. Materialerne er feks. flydende gummi, cement, kridt, shellak, jeg bruger til atudtryk afs\u00e6tte et grit af ekspressive spor med. Former og figurer der oftest tild\u00e6kkes og sl\u00f8res, minimeres igen, for senere at blive genfremkaldt, understreget eller omformet og konkretiseret. Dette grit af fragmenterede historier og antydede figurer, er d\u00e9t jeg kalder det maleriske ark\u00e6ologiske landskab.

N\u00e5r maleriets landskab er f\u00e6rdigt excaveret, tager farven over. Den endelige farvekomposition, bygget op i mange lag lasurer, nogle steder gennemskinnelig for at understrege den underliggende historie og andre steder d\u00e6kkende, kraftfuld og dominerende. Farven bliver som en krop der samler \u201cskellettet\u201d- historien i maleriets landskab og de mange forskellige lag smelter sammen til \u00e9t.


Siden 2002 har jeg arbejdet med temaerne: \u201cPsychedelic Landscapes\u201d og \u201cThe relief of horizontal Lines\u201d. Inspirationen til dette og til min optagethed af at komponere landskabelige malerier og at opdele fladen i horisontale striber, udspringer af to \u00e5rs ophold i New York. Jeg var inspireret, fascineret, bjergtaget og overv\u00e6ldet af bombardementet af vertikale linier, og oplevede mig selv l\u00e6nges efter og ofte at ops\u00f8ge naturoplevelser af mere flad (og hjemlig,) karakter. Her startede optagetheden af at implementere horisontale\/landskabelige linier i mine malerier.


Mine v\u00e6rker er t\u00e6nkt som \u201cbyggeklodser\u201d, mange malerier komponeres sammen. Elementer multipliceret til st\u00f8rre v\u00e6rker, der folder sig ud, horisontalt og vertikalt, efter rummets form og udtryk. Som hele skal v\u00e6rkerne fremst\u00e5, som et malerisk landskab beskueren kan tr\u00e6de ind i. Et landskab, der kan appellere til beskuerens egne \u201chistorier\u201d og samtidigt kan causere over og spille op til d\u00e9t specifikke rum de h\u00e6nger i.<\/p>\r\n

Birgitte Lund <\/strong>\u2013 Kunstnerisk Praksis

Det billedlige ark\u00e6ologiske landskab


Min kunstneriske praksis er maleri og jeg arbejder i serier.

I mit kunstneriske arbejde, kredser jeg om at afs\u00f8ge og afd\u00e6kke det billedlige landskab. Som en ark\u00e6olog afs\u00f8ger et fysisk omr\u00e5de, \u2013 bare i omvendt r\u00e6kkef\u00f8lge.

Maleriet bliver bygget op gennem mange teksturerede lag. Spor afsat p\u00e5 sugende eller afvisende overflader. Linier, tegn, indimellem kalkerede og overf\u00f8rte figurationer fra mine grafiske skitser, tegninger og sort\/hvid fotografier markerer og former orienteringspunkter p\u00e5 overfladen. Materialerne er feks. flydende gummi, cement, kridt, shellak, jeg bruger til atudtryk afs\u00e6tte et grit af ekspressive spor med. Former og figurer der oftest tild\u00e6kkes og sl\u00f8res, minimeres igen, for senere at blive genfremkaldt, understreget eller omformet og konkretiseret. Dette grit af fragmenterede historier og antydede figurer, er d\u00e9t jeg kalder det maleriske ark\u00e6ologiske landskab.

N\u00e5r maleriets landskab er f\u00e6rdigt excaveret, tager farven over. Den endelige farvekomposition, bygget op i mange lag lasurer, nogle steder gennemskinnelig for at understrege den underliggende historie og andre steder d\u00e6kkende, kraftfuld og dominerende. Farven bliver som en krop der samler \u201cskellettet\u201d- historien i maleriets landskab og de mange forskellige lag smelter sammen til \u00e9t.


Siden 2002 har jeg arbejdet med temaerne: \u201cPsychedelic Landscapes\u201d og \u201cThe relief of horizontal Lines\u201d. Inspirationen til dette og til min optagethed af at komponere landskabelige malerier og at opdele fladen i horisontale striber, udspringer af to \u00e5rs ophold i New York. Jeg var inspireret, fascineret, bjergtaget og overv\u00e6ldet af bombardementet af vertikale linier, og oplevede mig selv l\u00e6nges efter og ofte at ops\u00f8ge naturoplevelser af mere flad (og hjemlig,) karakter. Her startede optagetheden af at implementere horisontale\/landskabelige linier i mine malerier.


Mine v\u00e6rker er t\u00e6nkt som \u201cbyggeklodser\u201d, mange malerier komponeres sammen. Elementer multipliceret til st\u00f8rre v\u00e6rker, der folder sig ud, horisontalt og vertikalt, efter rummets form og udtryk. Som hele skal v\u00e6rkerne fremst\u00e5, som et malerisk landskab beskueren kan tr\u00e6de ind i. Et landskab, der kan appellere til beskuerens egne \u201chistorier\u201d og samtidigt kan causere over og spille op til d\u00e9t specifikke rum de h\u00e6nger i.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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