Preview: Please contact Asger@hansalf.com
New works for Enter Art Fair 2025 with Hans Alf Gallery
I am happy to be showing four new paintings with Hans Alf Gallery this coming August in Copenhagen.
The Girl With The Red Umbrella, The Red Swan, Sing Like A Bird and Moonlit Swimmers will be on display from August 28th to the 31st. For prices, preview and availability please get in touch with the team at Hans Alf Gallery on info@hansalf.com
Thank you.
Moonlit Swimmers, 95x100 cm, 2025.
Girl with The Red Umbrella, 95x100 cm, 2025
Sing Like A Bird, 95x100 cm, 2025
The Red Swan, 95x100 cm, 2025
Los Angeles - Giant Postcards of Affection at The Pit until 19th of April
My show Giant Postcards of Affection is up in Los Angeles until April 19th
The Pit is pleased to present “Giant Postcards of Affection,” a solo exhibition of new works by Danish artist Anders Scrmn Meisner, his first with the gallery. The show will be on view from March 15 to April 19, 2025. The artist will attend the opening reception on Saturday, March 15, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The Danish author Inger Christensen begins her seminal Fibonacci-inspired poetry collection Alphabet by listing things that exist: apricot trees exist, greylag geese exist, hydrangeas, lakes, and June nights exist. The continued repetition and accumulation of images have a physicalizing effect: the words appear as vignettes. The corresponding objects, arranged in mise en scènes and still lifes, feel tangible as if by the poet’s final line, you could reach out and touch one.
Anders Scrmn Meisner’s paintings perform a similar transfiguration in the opposite direction. His distilled but not abstract water lilies, sailboats, setting suns, swans, lilacs, and fireflies are arranged like poems across canvas or, as the title suggests, scrawled on postcards. The tension between dense, delicate dabs and simple opaque shapes lends the compositions their lyrical sensibility, symbolically charged and emotionally resonant. The brilliant color combinations estrange the familiar, creating space for interpretations that transcend the limits of visual representation.
Disavowing illusions of depth, Meisner avoids linear perspectives and modeling. Instead, his compositions evoke the flat planes characteristic of ukiyo-e, a style of Japanese woodblock printing that depicts “the floating world” or the fleeting moments that constitute daily living. Think: a carp leaping, a woman’s kimono caught on a branch, a blossom carried in the wind. While Meisner's botanical patterns and sensual details reflect the intricate prints, his renderings of textiles, vases, and shell-shaped vanity boxes pay homage to the decorative arts tradition that inspired them.
The layering of calligraphic marks, repeating motifs, and swathes of unobscured color collapses any lingering distinction between foreground and background. This confluence of figures and landscapes aptly embodies one of the primary tenets of Zen Buddhism: the interdependence of all living things. Accordingly, the artist’s reverence for the natural world is borne out in his restless textures, telluric tones, and formal imagery. In works like Waterlilies, That Look In Your Eyes and Great Nap White Swan Fresh Lilacs, he celebrates the Buddhist belief in the ephemerality of organic matter, preserving the fulsome blooms of fast-fading flowers.
Elsewhere, the vigor and vibrancy of his inexorably entwined color and line have a simmering, shimmering effect on the materials. As with French Sailboats and Jazz Landscape, where verdant emerald trees sway in the breeze beside flowing, light-flecked bodies of cobalt-cyan-cobalt-cyan water under blazing vermillion suns set against mimosa-yellow skies. This world is simultaneously familiar and from a waking dream, contemporary and that of ancient history.
Indeed, Meisner synthesizes observation and sensation, the real and fantastical, so that the decorative and subjective become one and the same. By privileging the transformative power of the imagination and the mystical potency of nature, his images acquire a symbolic, almost allegorical sheen. What we glean from his cornflowers is not the nature of a cornflower but its vitality: not its physiology but the experience of its presence, of being presently in a field full of cornflowers on a summer afternoon.
Along with reverence and revelry, the range of large-scale paintings comprising “Giant Postcards of Affection” provoke feelings of nostalgia, solace, and delight. Delight in the absurdity of existing in a body in time and space surrounded by other bodies, beings, animate and inanimate things. Yes, swans exist. Fireflies exist. Guitar amps exist. Paintings that are poems and poems that are paintings exist. Yes, you and I exist. —Tara Anne Dalbow
For further information, please contact the gallery at info@the-pit.la.
Jutland to Los Angeles
A late happy new years from your worker in paint.
January is almost over and that means that the danish art world will undertake their annual migration to the capital of central Jutland to show works at Art Herning and dance at the local bodegas. I am happy to have a few new paintings on display with Hans Alf Gallery. If Jutland is not near you - you can also see new works in the gallery in Copenhagen where a few new works are on display too - although not during this weekend.
These days I am in the process of bubblewrapping all the new paintings for my show in Los Angeles that will open the 15th of March at The Pit. The show will carry the title “Giant Postcards of Affection” and consists or 10 large scale paintings. The family and me will set sails for California and do a bit of painterfriendly non-action hiking before the opening mid march. We can’t wait. I even got new hiking shoes and to be honest they are also my first hiking shoes. We see how that goes for me and my glass ankles. Below you can see a few of the new works for Los Angeles. The Pit has a full preview in place and you are very welcome to email them about that at info@the-pit.la
thanks for reading and looking!
Anders
Below are works from my upcoming show at The Pit, Los Angeles
Below are works from Hans Alf Gallery and their January presentation in the Copenhagen gallery and their presentation at Art Herning
Upcoming show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in West Palm Beach Flori
“You Can Be Captain If I Can Bring My Chihuahua”
six maritime paintings by Anders Scrmn Meisner
PRIVATE VIEW:
Saturday, 7th December 2024, 6-9pm AND Sunday, 8th December 2024, 11-2pm West Palm Beach (Florida, USA)
Im happy to show six new paintings at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida. The new paintings all feature sailboats and are themed around life near the sea. The multi colored sails and white sailboats made their way into my sketchbooks this summer riding my bike along the coast line here in Denmark and went onto canvas as soon as I was back in my city studio in Copenhagen.
For availability and prices please contact: info@kristinhjellegjerde.com or visit their website here.
"One More Beach Rose Please" opens in New York
Hi everyone,
A few days ago my show “One More Beach Rose Please” opened in New York at Isabel Sullivan Gallery. It will be up until September 28th, so if you are in the Tribeca area do stop by and say hello to Isabel and Timothy at the gallery.
The show features 10 small size paintings that I’ve made over the course of the summer. It’s also my first show with Isabel Sullivan, and the first time that I have a cohesive group of paintings on display in New York.
“One More Beach Rose Please” is a real end of summer show. The paintings were made just on the brink of the end of the holiday here in Denmark, and even though the summer has been a bit longer than usual here, all the signs of autumn closing in are present. I have painted small fishing boats, summer dresses, Antonias’ My Little Ponies, corn fields and the new trees we planted last autumn.
You can see an overview of the works on artsy here and on the Isabel Sullivan Gallery website here, where you can also read further and see all the works. Feel free to email Isabel about availability and prices on info@is.gallery.
Thanks for reading (and looking!),
Anders
"Wild Range" opens in Los Angeles August 10th
Happy to have four new paintings in the groupshow “Wild Range” at The Pit in Los Angeles. The show opens on August 10th and coincide with The Pit’s 10 year anniversary celebration.
Gallery Announcement:
The Pit is delighted to announce our group exhibition Wild Range at our Los Angeles location. The show will include work by Shara Mays, Anders Scrmn Meisner, James Goss, Hopie Hill, Tracy Thomason, Howard Fonda, Jennifer King, Camila Varon Jaramillo, and Yirui Jia. The exhibition is on display from August 10 - September 14, 2024 alongside James Hayward’s solo exhibition. Join us for an opening party on August 10 from 4-7pm!
For further information, please contact the gallery at info@the-pit.la.
Photos by Chris Hanke
Shark Smiles and Sunflowers is now open in London
Hi Everyone
Very happy to have my first solo show in London with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery up and running. The show is up until June 22nd in the gallery’s Wandsworth location in London. You can view all the works here.
SHARK SMILES AND SUNFLOWERS
A bunch of sunflowers plucked from a neighbour’s flower bed. The sensuous shadows of marble sculptures in a garden at sunset. The heady scent of a lilac tree on a late summer’s evening. Shark Smiles and Sunflowers, Danish artist Anders Scrmn Meisner’s first solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, presents a playful new series of paintings that explore the emotional value of objects and the power of visual storytelling.
The titles of Meisner’s works are almost as important as the paintings themselves. He builds his compositions from the lines that he jots down in his notebooks and then paints the titles on to the sidebar of his completed canvases. As such, the viewer encounters the work from two perspectives: first as a purely visual image and then with a written prompt that offers a clue into the story that Meisner is imagining. A seemingly simple painting of a vase of sunflowers, for example, takes on another layer of meaning when we read the title, I Stole For You Last Night while Lilac Fragrance, My Blue Eyes, Your Full Moon imbues the painting of a feathery blue, leafy tree with a sense of romantic nostalgia.
To Meisner, these works are all ‘giant postcards of affection.’ They capture specific moments in time, memories of an emotional experience and physical connections. The flat, graphic style of the imagery plays into the postcard aesthetic while the vivid colour palette and Pointillist-inspired backdrops evoke a youthful, summery mood.
At the same time, Mesiner takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to such nostalgia. View From Expensive Holiday, for example, depicts a nonspecific sunny, seaside landscape while Chiesa La Domenica (Italian for church on Sunday) features a bunch of flowers in a Ferrari-branded pot. Both of these works knowingly play on stereotypes, inviting the viewer into the joke, while the flattened perspective and addition of slightly surreal or unexpected elements, such as the two orange suns in View From Expensive Holiday or the pink high-heels in Chiesa La Domenica, create a sense of intrigue. As Meisner puts it, ‘I am just starting the story. The rest is left to the viewer’s imagination.’
It is this playfulness that makes Meisner’s work so captivating. Each image is simultaneously familiar and open-ended, filled with endless potential. Just as Meisner takes pleasure in allowing himself to paint whatever he feels like, ‘it doesn’t matter how weird it is,’ his work invites us to let our minds wander and dream.
You are more than welcome to email Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery about available work through info@kristinhjellegjerde.com.
UPCOMING SHOWS IN 2024:
In August I am very excited to be included The Pit’s summer group show in Los Angeles. Im also happy to announce that I will have works in the NADA art Fair in Miami in December also with The Pit.
In Copenhagen I will show four new paintings with Hans Alf Gallery at Enter Art Fair also in August.
PRINTS
I have added two prints to the webshop over at TRBL Studios.
Everything is Amplifed opens at Hans Alf Gallery
My new show “Everything is Amplifed” is now open at Hans Alf Gallery here in Copenhagen.
Thank you so much to everyone who came out for the opening. The show runs until April 27th. For information about the works you are always welcome to get in contact with Hans Alf Gallery on info(@)hansalf.com. You can also see an overview of the show on Artsy here.
My next show “Sharksmiles and Sunflowers” will open at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London the 23rd of May. To get updates on new available works for that show please join my mailinglist here and you will be amongst the first to know. You are also welcome to email Kristin Hjellegjerde for a preview on info(@)kristinhjellegjerde.com
Read more about Everything is Amplified below.
thanks for reading
Anders
EVERYTHING IS AMPLIFIED
In “Everything is Amplified”, SCRMN revisits something that was vital in his early works; an almost fetishistic obsession with seemingly trivial objects, which are elevated and impregnated with complex stories and personal memories in the artist’s idiosyncratic vernacular. The childhood PEZ dispensers meticulously arranged on a skateboard; an old suitcase; a woman’s pink pumps; a miniature horse; an upright piano – all of these are innocent objects of everyday life that are bestowed with a new and deeper meaning in SCRMN’s peculiar tableaus. And concurrently the picture frame is ceaselessly invaded by trees, shrubbery, twigs, flowers and leaves as constant reminders of a metaphoric wilderness lurking in or around us; a symbolic juxtaposition of nature and culture.
“Everything is Amplified” has two meanings: On one hand, the title refers to the actual amplifiers in SCRMN’s new paintings; on the other, it refers to a more abstract feeling that everything in the show – colors, emotions, objects – are enlarged.
The artist explains this quite poignantly:
“The first painting, I did for the show, was of a guitar amp. There is a lot of nostalgia in guitar amplifiers for me; they remind me of my teenage years, of punk, rebellion, and youthful noise. So that became the impetus for the show. At the same time, the title also refers to the depicted objects themselves, as they are generally enhanced and amplified. In some sense, I have zoomed in on everything in a sort of hyper-sensitive, mescaline teenage fever-dream, where every object is imbued with private emotions and memories. In a lot of ways, “Everything is Amplified” marks a return to the exhibition “The World Was Weird” from 2014 and my obsession with the inherent history of a given object. Back then, American author John Albert wrote that “seemingly unremarkable objects become keys to unraveling memories and the nature of the human experience.” I think that sums up the exhibition quite well.
Upcoming shows: Copenhagen, London, Berlin and Los Angeles
Excerpt from my newsletter February 21
Hi everyone!
2024 is shaping up to be a fun but busy year. So far I’ve spent very little time outside studio since coming back from Colombia in January and now, as my first show of 2024 is getting nearer, I thought I would share some sneak peaks of paintings. These will all be in my upcoming show at Hans Alf Gallery, opening on April 5th here in Copenhagen. The show will carry the title “Everything is Amplified” and will feature paintings of guitar amplifiers and amplified objects in general. I’ve had a lot of fun painting everything from colombian sodas to dinosaurs, Pez on skateboards, cellos, pipes, ashtrays and lilacs. Some of the paintings you can see below.
In May my first solo show in London will open at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, which is a big thing for me, and in June I will head down to Schloss Goerne outside Berlin to participate in the yearly groupshow at the old castle - also with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.
In August, I am also excited about starting my collaboration with Los Angeles gallery The Pit where I will have works in their annual summer group. Needless to say, I got a spring in my step in the studio these days and feeling grateful to see my work travel far and wide this year.
In late August, I will also show new works with Hans Alf Gallery at Enter Art Fair here in Copenhagen for everyone here at home.
Now enough about plans. I hope to see you the 5th of April for “Everything Is Amplified” at Hans Alf Gallery. Here are some sneak peaks of the new works, you are always welcome to reach out to the gallery about prices and availability on specific works to: info@hansalf.com
Thanks for reading and special thanks to all of you who signed up lately (and long time ago) it means a lot.
Anders Scrmn
Work sizes from top to bottom:
Beethoven, Lingerie and Sunflowers
145x125 cm
Acrylics on canvas
Pez on Skateboard
50x70 cm
Acrylics on canvas
Nashville Skyline
105x90 cm
Acrylics on canvas
Piano Nap
135x150 cm
Acrylics on canvas
Blue Girl
85x90 cm
Acrylics on canvas
New show up at Hans Alf Gallery
My new show titled “Members Only” is currently on display at Hans Alf Gallery. The show will run until Oct. 14th. Here are some links to learn more: Work Overview / Inquiries / Show overview on Artsy
The gallery is open for visits Tuesday-Friday 12-18 and Saturdays 12-15
Below some installation shots.
Thanks for reading!
Anders
"MEMBERS ONLY" Opening September 22
Friday September 22, Hans Alf Gallery invites everyone to join the opening of Anders SCRMN Meisner's project room show "Members Only".
LINKS: ALL THE NEW WORKS HERE / OVERVIEW ON ARTSY / INQUIRIES TO info@hansalf.com
A painting by Anders SCRMN Meisner - before being a garden, a memory or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with coloured dots arranged in a certain order. In Members Only, a frieze of 12 new oil paintings on raw cotton canvas is accompanied by three ceramic figurines. The new body of work expands on the artist’s signature iconography, developed over the past decade: landscapes, icons, and ornaments. Blending together loose impressions, art historical references and his own memories, SCRMN portrays a personal (re)vision of bygone times.
The title of the exhibition is both a direct reference to the restricted access to nature’s splendour, but also to the many fences within the paintings, flowerbeds, gardens and fields; frames within frames. The titles of the works, on the other hand, directly refer to the narrative. The mostly two-word titles are all made up in advance as themes to inspire the content; to create scenes in response to them.
Diagonals created by the painted dots of light, colours and shades enhance the dynamic asymmetry of the paintings. Variegated patterns of fields, cypresses, rivers, stone fences, and clouds are scattered throughout the paintings, while tiny figures form points of interest: strollin’ on the French boulevards, gardening, dreaming, contemplating, or sunbathing. SCRMN revisits some of the airy, impressionistic, if not metaphysical, traditions of French painting to articulate presence of absence. The flat patches of meticulously coloured ‘dots’ punctuate the compositions and serve as visual anchors. The spaces left empty, however, are equally arresting, leaving room for ideas or strings of hazy memories: “I think of the lemon trees in Sicily, once picked by hand and grown without fear of forest fires,” the artist says. “Smell the small french fishing villages. A sunbather on a flowerbed, flower collectors, cultivated fields and beautiful botanic gardens, secluded and kept by gardeners on small stamp-sized pieces of land surrounded by roads of black heat-absorbing asphalt.”
No matter where you look, the love of French painting stirs. In the ever-picturesque cypress and olive trees of the Mediterranean, reduced into geometric forms, the nostalgia of history merges, moist and heated, between the meticulously dotted and sketched, almond-shaped leaves, green and waxy. SCRMN beautifully translates the irony of untamed nature, ultimately turned into an elusive privilege, tamed, cultivated and hidden behind fences. The thickets of leaves on the cypresses become smaller and smaller, more domestic, but just as decorous. Before flickering into abstraction (again). Fuss: as a Mediterranean wind. Earth coming down from a hill. Leaves from trees. The seasons change. The artist's eye scans each leaf. With the attention of a romantic gardener or a modernist architect. He measures them before he paints them. He records them.
"Members Only" opens September 22 and will be on view through October 14.
Upcoming show + Enter Art Fair
Happy to announce that I will show 15 new paintings at Hans Alf Gallery in early Autumn. The show will open on the 22nd of September 2023. Before that I will show new large scale works at Enter Art Fair in August - also with Hans Alf Gallery.
New Monotypes
Six new monotypes are now available from the webshop
Series of new small oil paintings
This new series of 9 small oil paintings have recently arrived at Hans Alf Gallery. For availability and prices please email info(@)hansalf.com or jump straight to Artsy
Opening December 10th: "I'm Soft, Like Andalusian Cotton"
Happy to share that my show “I’m Soft, Like Andalusian Cotton” opens on December 10th at Tinimini Room in Dordrecht. For more info on the show, prices and availability of the new paintings please send me an email or reach out to Tinimini Room here.
Merry December!
Anders
Soft Like Andalusian Cotton
(this was my november newsletter that I sent to mailinglist subscribers early November. If you would like one too next time please sign up here. Thank you!)
Hi everyone,
I’ve been back in the studio for a few days after 5 weeks of travelling through the south of Spain, which was wonderful. We’ve been up in the mountains, in small towns without roads, at the beach, in parks, at roman ruins and eaten lots of food. Our base was our “home away from home”, Sevilla. The city has had a huge influence on me and the art I make. Many of the patterns and the colours I use all have their roots in the city, la sevillana, el flamenco and the heavy influence of the mudéjar architecture and decorative culture. I first moved there when I was 20, and since then I have lived there in periods with Carolina. Sevilla is a returning theme in my life and I love that city.
Even though winter is on its way in Denmark, it is great to get back to the studio I must admit. Especially since I have a show opening at Tinimini Room Gallery in Dordrecht, Holland on the 10th of December that I need to finish. Tinimini Room is founded by dutch artist Ralf Kokke, who happens to open a show in Copenhagen at Hans Alf Gallery on 2nd of December. So do go see it if you are in Copenhagen, and if you are in Holland I hope to to see you at my show on the 10th of December, everyone is welcome and I will be there to chat and say hi.
The show will be titled “I’m soft, like Andalusian Cotton”, and will feature a small selection of my new gouache paintings. But more about that when we get closer to the date. I will send out an overview of all the new paintings when the show opens in early December to you all.
While I’ve been working on the december show in Holland, I’ve dived further into my obsession with patterns, which are now hanging on the walls of the studio. I also made a lot of new drawings while in Sevilla. Some of pure patterns, but some of Male Strippers taking a cigarette break and Amateur Performances of Evita.
I have added new vases to my webshop here by the way, and after having it closed during my absence in October, now its open again with both ceramics and limited edition prints just in time for the holidays!
Thanks so much for reading. If you are interested in any of the new drawings or have any questions, dont be shy to just reply to this email.
All the best,
Anders
Riding The White Stallion - September Newsletter
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Hi everyone
So my show “Apricots and Freshwater Pearls” at Hans Alf Gallery is closely coming to an end. August has been one of those months that run by you like a well trained Amsterdam pick pocketer who just realized he robbed the local ganglord.
There are, to be exact, 8 days left to see the show. The gallery is open today (friday) from 12-18 and Saturday 12-15. Next week, the gallery is open and the times to visit are from tuesday to saturday 12-18. Those will be the last days that all these paintings will get to hang next to each other, before they ship out to live in new homes. I take great satisfaction thinking about that and I am thankful to everyone who came out to see the show and maybe even picked out their personal favorite. Gracias. If you want more information about the show and to see a list of the last available works, the team at Hans Alf are available on info@hansalf.com.
The last month I’ve been making some new works and some of them are shipping out to Korea when they are dry. Two of these will be available at my friends Unglamouse when they open up in Seoul later in September, along with some of my works on paper. Below in order of appearance “La Hamaca”, “Art Dealer With Pet Bird”, “Selfportrait as the artist making eggs”, “Checking Eyebrows” and “Riding the White Stallion”. All 35x45 cm.
This month Im working on paper with my old favourite weapon of choice, the gouache. I’ll take some pictures for my October newsletter as the walls fill up. September will also be the month of the great big family relocation to Sevilla where we will reside, ride horses, study patterns and look at the Autumn fall on the Guadalquivir.
Hope you get a chance to see Apricots and Freshwater Pearls before it closes on September 10. More news in October about a show in Holland in December.
Thanks for reading,
Anders
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"Apricots And Freshwater Pearls" opens on August 12th at Hans Alf Gallery
The Scrmn Letters August 2022
(this is my August newsletter that I sent to mailinglist subscribers early August. If you would like one too early September please sign up here. Thank you!)
Hi everyone
Hope that you had a good summer so far. So there are two fun things to talk about. Maybe even three but let’s stick to the two serious ones.
First of all my new show Apricots and Freshwater Pearls opens at Hans Alf Gallery on Friday the 12th of August here in Copenhagen. You are very much welcome for a drink on the day at the Opening. We open at 17.00 and doors close at 20.00. The show will run until September 10 but it’s most fun if you can come and say hello at the opening.
The second thing is my new silkscreen print “Showtime” which is being released today and is available in my webshop. It’s one of my bigger prints based on a crayon drawing. I’m very happy with it. Special thanks to master printer Rune from Icescreen Printing. It’s always a pleasure to work with him - his patience with me, finding the right red, which is almost orange is second to none.
Back to the show. The title “Apricots and Freshwater Pearls” came from, well it’s pretty obvious… Apricots. I bought some very pretty Apricots one day and came home with them. They looked like small butts and had this intense orangeness with a red hue and yeah, they got me excited about painting them and painting apricot trees. On my way out to the studio I took some of the apricots and more or less by accident put them next to some of Carolina’s pearl jewellery. This was another painterly moment because the two objects together worked just great. When I look at these things I think about the history of the pearls - pearl divers, oysters, beauty, warmth, heat, islands and then you get it mixed up with french apricot farmers, the fickleness of the climate, ripe fruits, life, the design of everything, god maybe, the diverse european countryside - how everything nice seems to happen outside the city. For me, in this situation (the situation with the apricots and pearls) you have two options. Either you pack your bags and head to the french countryside and get wine and local food or you start painting. Painting is my main attraction so I went to the studio and started painting apricot trees.
One other thing about the show that might be important. When I did the last shows, Modern Love in 2018 and Angel in 2020 I painted a lot of women with their back turned against the viewer. But as with most good things you can’t keep doing them. So I stopped painting those.The truth is that, while I did those shows, and other shows, I tried to paint Carolina, facing me, and I was never really happy with the paintings (so I never showed them) until this year when I got to a place where I was suddenly happy with the outcome. The first one was “The Heatwave”. The painting is kind of self-explanatory. I think I worked on that painting for 7 years (in my head). As a painter you always wait for those moments - when something you tried to make work, suddenly works. When this happen you can tell yourself that all those other things you’ve tried and failed to do will probably also suddenly work one day. You can then continue the work. I think that’s why many painters paint until they are physically unable to do it anymore. It’s a real kick - I am my own little circus horse!! Apricots and Freshwater Pearls is a pretty personal show of mine - images from my own life, more or less real.
Asger and Hans from Hans Alf Gallery will handle all inquires for paintings and preview, pdf’s and the like. You can reach Asger on this email: asger@hansalf.com and he is available to send all information about the new paintings. And of course you can see all the new paintings here.
Hope to see you on the 12th of August. Write me if you have any questions.
all the best
Anders
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