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What is Art?
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Patterns of life
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Drawing
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Danish Contemporary Art
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Figurative Art
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Bjørn Eriksen
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Luke Gilliam left a comment for Bjørn Eriksen
Happy New Year Bjorn !! Let's get back in touch.
Photos posted by Bjørn Eriksen
Bjørn Eriksen left a comment for Petra
Hi Petra
Nice to be friends, you are a very good artist! Thanks for adding me.
Best, Bjorn
Bjørn Eriksen commented on Dorthea Rejkjær's photo
Jeg nyder leret! Er gået helt amok i lerfigurer...
Vesterhavet lyder godt, der burde man troppe op mindst én gang om året!!!
Bjørn Eriksen commented on Dorthea Rejkjær's photo
Bevægelse og lethed, tror du ikke du har været japaner i et tidligere liv? :)
Bjørn Eriksen commented on Diana sellers's photo
Funny, I have done something likely recently!
Marko Gavrilovic commented on Bjørn Eriksen's album
Excellent work Bjorn!
Your style is simply an original and distinctive, you are using strong colors with trill!
Paintings and the outside world
Paintings that are more than oil on canvas...
Photo posted by Bjørn Eriksen
Bjørn Eriksen commented on Bjørn Eriksen's photo
You can call this painting on: 0045 81 303 118
Profile Information
- Website
- http://www.eriksen.be
- Relationship status
- married
- College / University
- Danish School of Design
- Program
- Graphic and Drawing
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Drawing, Painting
- I am...
- Very sensitive and caring...
Don't like to wash up, own a machine to do that :)
- About my artwork
- 'For Bjørn Eriksen it is the human figure. Although his earlier work was apparently influenced by the Scandinavian neo-primitivists of the Cobra group and the German neo-expressionists, his present paintings seem more akin to early Alex Katz, when there were still faint traces of New York School 'process' in Katz's figurative style. But being a postmodernist, Eriksen's hints of the hand may be more beholden to the so-called 'Bad Painting' movement of the 1970s, in which deliberately crude paint handling was combined with narrative intimations for ironic effect.
The double irony, though, is that even when he aims for bad, Eriksen is a very good, which comes across particularly well in his portraits, such as 'Laila,' depicting a woman with a red rose in her hair whose somewhat frumpy Mona Lisa demeanor he manages to endow with a winsomeness akin to Elizabeth Peyton's wispy rock and roll androgeynes. Capable of aping the clumsiness of folk art by making a tan shadow on Laila's face as harshly palpable as a caramel wafer, he can turn right around and sever the dark curve of her shoulder from the dark background with a sinuous sliver of light that could have been cut with a razor.
Such contrasts between awkwardness and grace animate all of Eriksen's paintings in compelling ways, giving the topless girl with her name tattooed on her pelvis in 'Rita Meter Maid' an archaic formal simplicity akin to Modigliani, as she raises an arm above her head to display a clean-shaven armpit; heightening the nerdiness of the four grinning guys in identical checkered sportcoats posed frontally like a publicity shot for a barbershop quartet, in 'Please Return'; emphasizing the burlesque-comic inanity of the bozo in an ill-fitting suit bending over in a kick-me posture with a blond bimbo who looks like she's posing for a pin-up calendar balanced coolly on his back, in 'Anything Goes.'
Bjørn Eriksen based the latter two paintings on old photographs that he found while visiting New York (perhaps they were discarded by some low-rent theatrical agent like the one played by Woody Allen in 'Broadway Danny Rose,' while divesting his dusty files of former clients). But by virtue of his mastery of the deadpan manner, he manages to make the people in the pictures look perfectly bored, as though striking such outlandish poses is all in a day's work.'
Ed McCormack
Gallery&Studio
New York City
- Artists I like
- Picasso, Hockney, Matisse, Braque, Gris, Freud, Bacon, Mykines, Ingalvur av Reyni, Jonna Pedersen, Lars Svanholm, Rama King Nash, Jorn, Lis Zwick, Joergen Nash, Munch, Bonnard, Manet, Rembrandt and many others...
- Interests
- Art, chess, music, fishing, computers...
- Centre of the artworld:
- New York, London, LA, Berlin, Beijing, my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere, another city
The new book!
Bjørn Eriksen's Photos
Bjørn Eriksen's Videos
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Butho dance, part one...
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Showtime
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Comment Wall (79 comments)
- At 4:39pm on January 4, 2012,
Luke Gilliam said…
Happy New Year Bjorn !! Let's get back in touch.
- At 9:55am on May 28, 2011,
Clementine McGaw said… absolutely beautiful book, thank you so much, very grateful indeed.
clem
- At 9:31pm on April 1, 2011,
Marko Gavrilovic said…
Thanks Bjorn,
Great watercolor pieces you have!
Have great weekend!
best,
Marko
- At 2:11pm on March 27, 2011,
Ekaterina Alexander said… - Hi Bjorn, I like your watercolour sketches very much, thanks for your friendship, Ekaterina
- At 4:11pm on February 21, 2011,
Hillel Kagan said… - Dear Bjorn, I'm flattered that you like my work enough to post an image on your Facebook page and I thank you for taking the trouble to show it to me. Maybe I should emigrate to Denmark where there is at least one art critic who thinks I may be a good painter.
- At 10:36am on February 21, 2011,
Kyra Munk Matustik said… - Cool paintings
- At 11:53pm on February 13, 2011,
Luke Gilliam said…
Thank you for your ideas Bjorn - I think I like Mannerism better than Rennaisance - I like the idea of imagination adding personal elements that are not in the original image - maybe surrealism is an offspring from Mannerism - in that case I like Mannerism the best - please stay in touch, Luke =)
- At 11:57pm on February 8, 2011,
Luke Gilliam said…
- What is the Mannerism? Best from Luke :)
- At 5:00pm on January 25, 2011,
Luke Gilliam said…
- Hi Bjorn - long time no talk - lets get back in touch again
- At 7:44am on February 4, 2010,
Victor Vidal said… - Tak Bjørn
Det var hyggelig at møde dig
mange hilserne
Victor
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