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Who’d have thought so – Facebook is not about socializing only: the more you keep an eye out for art, the more interesting positions you can discover. Thus I got to know a young Danish artist who brought some artists to my attention whose work is worth a closer look:

Michael á Grømma: God is in the house, Acryl + Mixed Media, 100 x 100 cm, 2007 © Michael á Grømma

Michael á Grømma, actually a graphic designer,  has found his way to painting only last year when he came back from a trip to California. These experiences there flew into his works. The paintings are collages of prints of skyline photos taken in California, mostly San Francisco.

In Februay, Grømma has his first solo exhibition coming up at Gallerie Rasmus, one of Denmark’s major galleries, in Kopenhagen.

I will report more about his work soon and I’m glad Michael consented to an email interview. (The interview is published now – read on here.)

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Kristian Vodder Svensson: Untitled, Acryl on Canvas, 100 x 200 cm

Kristian Vodder Svensson, another young Danish artist. Also represented by Gallerie Rasmus.

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Ivan Andersen: The shadow out of time, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2007

Ivan Andersen (*1968) is a central figure within a new generation of Danish figurative painters. His motifs are often taken from the most common and tedious surroundings of modern Danish daily life. He captures experiences of parking lots, standard houses, living rooms, apartment houses and hot-dog stands and mixes them with surfaces and structures in the paintings which force the viewer to perceive the objects in a new and different way, which can seem very humoristic and frightening at the same time. Ivan Andersen graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. The same year he received the prestigious “Lille Søndergaard-Grant” (quoted Galleri Bo Bjerggaard).