Interview with Westend Walls Copenhagen

Painted a wall at the Urban Contemporary art gallery WEST END WALLS in Copenhagen Denmark.

I was recently invited to paint at the out door Urban Contemporary art gallery West end walls in Copenhagen. I have been following the project for some time and always wanted to contribute. So i am really happy i finally got the chance to do it. The concept of the gallery is that every second month they invite two artist to exhibit on the two walls of the gallery. 

Now watch the process and the end result here below. The wall is continuing ongoing process of fragmented drawings i collect through my work while painting and drawing on walls i collect them and bring them and use them as a way of creating a image i have no control over during the process. When the space is filled i am finished and i have created new pieces of actions on the papers that now leave holes in the image. 

Thank you very much to West end Walls for inviting me

Black coffee

Putting up the drawings

First steps 

Creating chaos 

The ending result

First wall in 2017. The Nibiru cataclysm

Spray of the day. Red Blue and White

Ultimate frustration! found in the forrest intoxicated by a lot of alcohol. all of a sudden made the colors blue red and white pop up in my head, and there they are very present. Raisning all sorts of questions! Need to get some answers need to start, figuring everything out! What to do with these colors! Today i made a silver and black drawing on a wall! In the colors that i love so very much! It felt good, but it didn't get me closer to any answers! 

But i am happy! 

The Constant dilemma, Raising questions.

The never ending story of the black on white, continues.

One Size fits all. Exhibition in Format artspace, copenhagen 2016

One Size fits all. Exhibition in Format artspace, copenhagen 2016

Friday the 18th the newest exhibition in Format Artspace opened. It features all the artist represented by the galleri. Each artist participated with one work. All works is on paper. As a special thing, all works no matter size, and or material cost the same. And if you buy something you can take it with you right away! Thanks to everybody who  showed up. 

And thank you to Format for making this possible! 

Text from formats website in Danish: 

http://www.formatartspace.dk/udstillinger/21-one-size-fits-all/

#21: One Size Fits AllUdstillingsperiode: 18. nov – 23. dec 2016Fernisering: d. 18. nov kl. 17-20 med blandet “ta-selv-bar”

Jesper Aabille, Mika Andersen, Martin Askholm, Julie Asmussen, Rikke Bakman, Isabel Berglund, Henrik Bruun, Sidse Carstens, Rasmus Danø, Kristian Devantier, Christina Bredahl Duelund, Mikkel Olaf Eskildsen, Lars Sarto Hempler, Lars Holbroe, Lena Ignestam, Anja Karottki, Konvoj + Grenaae, Carl Krull, Mads Ljungdahl, Anne Munnecke, Mie Mørkeberg, Cecilie Enevold Nielsen, Miriam Nielsen, Thomas Pålsson, Anders Reventlov, Annesofie Sandal, Morten Schelde, Tina Scherzberg, Pernille Snedker, Morten Steinbach, Jonas Hvid Søndergaard, Morten Hemmingsen Sørup, Camilla Thorup, Mike Tylak

Format har inviteret galleriets kunstnere til at deltage i en gruppeudstilling, hvor formatet er frit, men prisen er fast.

34 danske kunstnere og kunstnergrupper, der har papiret som fællesnævner, har hver lavet et nyt værk til gruppeudstillingen “One Size Fits All”. Formatet varierer, men prisen er den samme – alle værker kan erhverves for 1400 kr

.Udstillingen er blevet til udfra et ønske om at understrege galleriets målsætning: at præsentere værker af høj kunstnerisk kvalitet, men som er mulige at erhverve sig uden at skulle leve af havregrød flere måneder efter.

Så drømmer man fx. om en lille tegning af Morten Schelde, et tryk af Carl Krull, en lille pap-kvadrat af Camilla Thorup, en tørret og presset blomst af Jesper Aabille eller en collage af Sidse Carstens, så er der med “One Size Fits All” rig mulighed for at både se og købe. Værkerne kan købes og tages med med det samme, så udstillingen vil I løbet af perioden ændre form og ophængning.

Here there is some photos from the opening: 

Exhibition news November 2016

One size fits all, a group exhibition by artists who works on paper.

opening friday the 18th of November. 2016

I am part of this show at Neun Görlitz curated by Jens Besser

Featuring Artists who have been involved in the Lack Streiche kleber, Urban-Art festival in Dresden. Now the Urban art festival travels to spread the ideas and the documentation about the project. I am extremely happy to be a part of it. Special thank you goes out to the curator and organizer Jens Besser for inviting me in the first place. This show is on until the 2. of december 2016 

Exhibition view from the show at Neun Görlitz Germany 

(photos by Jens Besser) 

Lost youth and old farts

It all continues.The art, Drawing, the graffiti all that I have been using all spare time and all free time on in around 25 years. Last night i painted a wall in a small suburb. Two teenagers was hanging out, in a dark corner. where there was no lights. A boy and a girl. The boy talked constantly to the girl in a slow monotone hash smoked voice! It was so annoying I felt like going there tell him to shut up! At some point he came creeping out the darkness with red sprained eyes and asked me if i worked there? I said no. He asked how much i got paid for painting? A question that persons of all ages everywhere i have painted always seem to be interested in. I said nothing. He looked at me, with a suspicious look. Maybe thinking why an adult person would do anything like painting a wall in the night in his spare time for absolutely no reason than just the one reason: I want to do it. And for the fun and joy of it. That was my response: I just do this for fun. That seemed to be to much for him to grasp. And he turned around and crawled back to his dark corner, to his monotone preaching. That i will never know what was about. They finally left and i could relax and paint undisturbed. 

Later this week i met with my friend Solkongens Nabo (The king of the Suns neighbour) We went around looking at abandoned spaces in searching for some urban wasteland where we could have some fun painting. For me a familiar way of spending a afternoon for, Solkongens Nabo, not so familiar, at least not in the context of artistic expression. We found a place where we thought that to old farts could paint undisturbed. We went home packed our stuff, went back and started to work in complete darkness and silence. Really funny to stand a place and create something. Something that you can't see and something that will never bee seen by anybody in real life. Created a place of the grid that does not exists anywhere. It was really nice. And Solkongens Nabo was really happy, it was the first time he had done something like that. And he felt that now his artistic platform had developed. On our way back i asked him if he could believe that i have been doing this for about 20 years. His reply was yes totally! 

painting to the sound of a teenage stoner

Painting a secret place in pitch darkness with Solkongens Nabo Always fun to see what you have done when you haven't been able to see anything during process. 

Memories 2016

(happy for the rusto-fatcap works on local brasilian spray paint brand)

Sorry for the lack of updates a lot of things is going on and i haven't made a priority of making updates here on my blog. I really appreciate all the visitors and i truly hope you will continue to pass by my blog now exsitising for around 8 years. 

Last update was written in Rio De janeiro. Reflecting on the situation there. How it felt being there. Now back home in the safe havens of Scandinavia sitting and looking through images from the travel. I am dreaming my self back and want to share some holiday photos of what i consider giving me the most quality of life namely painting on the streets without being bothered by police or anything else. In Brasil it is widely accepted to paint where ever you want to. I have never experienced any trouble. Walking around looking for spots to paint is magic and feels as truly freedom of expression. 

It was a good trip seeing old friends again painting and having fun. 

I hope you enjoy the photos below from different places around Rio De Janeiro, where you can see som process shot of painting on the streets. I will really soon make new updates on what is going on here in Denmark new projects is cooking. So stay tuned.

30 Degrees in the sun. Walking around with my Friend Beam, to paint and find spots. 

I found this surface so nice and beautiful. Should probably just have left like if it is above but i really wanted to paint it. and so i did. While painting a man started to ask if we wanted to paint his truck. That way our work could travel all around Rio De Janerio. He like the paintings in the streets and wanted to help us to show our work. We agreed, but all of a sudden he had to leave because his lunch break was over. Next time. 

This wall is the back side of a wall totally covered in graffiti paintings. I asked the owner of the factory if i could paint on the building, but he responded i could only paint in the wall outside surrounding the factory. It wasn't really attractive to paint on a wall already painted but i started to walk along side the wall. to find a spot i could paint over. Then i saw a hole in the wall and climbed through. To find out that on the other side, the wall was completely clean! Considering the owner didn't say only one side of the wall could be painted i made a quick decision of painting the clean side. Somebody have to be the first. 

Painting on Fernandos house. A nice man i met while visiting the 

Projeto Morrinho in Santa Teresa. His hobby is drinking coffee and making food. So i took that in my thoughts while painting his house. He gave me really good home made soup. And good coffee while i painted. Such a nice time.