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Bjørn Eriksen 51, Male
Copenhagen, Denmark

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Website
http://www.eriksen.be
Relationship status
in a relationship
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...
The centre of the artworld is
online, nowhere and everywhere

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At 4:47pm on 25th November 2008, Adamo Macri said…
That's great Bjorn, keep an eye on me as I'll spare one out for you. Stay in touch. Best, Adamo
At 3:40am on 23rd November 2008, Adamo Macri said…
Impressive body of work.
At 12:38am on 14th November 2008, Marta Melniczuk said…
Thanks a lot for comment, dear Björn, if you are interested: there is internet competition : www.12-okp.de its open to EU Members, winners get exhibition and publication, Cheers Marta
At 8:55pm on 27th October 2008, Noura Debbouche said…
hello Bjorn
how are you
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At 6:31am on 22nd October 2008, Julie Tremblay said…
Hej Bjørn,
Glad for at du var ind at se min udstilling OG at du ikke var skuffet :-) Vi kan godt snakke over kaffe... Bare send en mail til julie@julietremblay.net

Mvh,
Julie
At 10:07pm on 13th October 2008, Hanna Watts said…
Bjorn, my deep appreciation for you, for taking the time to look at my gallery, and leave such a comments!
I was looking where I can comment back, but did not see any place.
so you write that: "you know...!" would you like to share with me "what you know?" :)
thank you so much for your feed back!!!
Hanna
At 9:45pm on 13th October 2008, Hanna Watts said…
Hi Bjorn
thank you for the add!
I love your art work! i will need to look at them more closely.
Hanna
At 4:11pm on 11th October 2008, Kjeld Ulrich said…
Hej Bjørn, er du den bjørn Eriksen som jeg mødte for omtrent 1000 år siden hos galleri Feldballe i Kolding ? :-)
At 3:55pm on 11th October 2008, Kjeld Ulrich said…
Hej Bjørn ,er du den Bjørn Eriksen som jeg mødte for cr 1000 år siden hos Galleri Feltballe ?
At 5:35pm on 10th October 2008, Sara Servati said…

 
 

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