3/9/2015
Peter Linde Busk
GL Strand, Copenhagen
In his exhibition the artist focuses on the resources discarded by society and he re-defines the worthless as something that might play an important role in new contexts.
Scratched ceramic figures - some wearing soft petticoats, others dressed in combat uniforms made from clay - stand monumentally on skilfully renovatedbutcher’s blocks. Fragments of ceramics hanging from richly ornamented surfaces. With these, as well as other recently completed and wholly original works, in his exhibition Fear the Goat from the Front, the Horse from the Rear and Man from all Sides Peter Linde Busk focuses on the resources discarded by society and he re-defines the worthless as something that might play an important role in new contexts.
For the past decade, Peter Linde Busk has created a variety of works spanning different mediums such as painting, sculpture, graphic design and installation. His motifs oscillate between the figurative and the abstract, darkness and light, the material and immaterial. The physicality of his works reflects Linde Busk’s fascination with the exclusiveness of every material. What is commonly viewed as mere rubbish, as superfluous or useless material, Peter Linde Busk transforms into delicate, sensuous figures and abstract images. In this way, Peter Linde Busk draws his viewers’ attention to the undesired material and suggests that the rejected character of this material might actually have potential for new meanings. This focus on material further seems enhanced by the artist’s use of various traditional methods of artistic craftsmanship.
In Fear the Goat from the Front, the Horse from the Rear and Man from all Sides, Peter Linde Busk stages his works through three rooms, in which the exhibition creates a ceremonial atmosphere, which unites the different art works in a common aesthetic framework that aims to elevate the worthless, the unwanted and the unsuccessful.
About the artist
Lately, through several exhibitions - Danish as well as international - Peter Linde Busk (born in 1973) has established himself as one of Denmark’s most significant younger visual artists. He received his education at the Royal Academy of Arts and Slade School of Fine Arts - both in London, at Hunter College of Art in New York and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany. Today Peter Linde Busk works and lives in Berlin.
Image: Peter Linde Busk, Fear the Goat from the Front, the Horse from the Rear and Man from all Sides, 2014. 93 x 55 x 34 cm. Foto: Eric Tschernow
Press Contact:
Pernille Wahlgren, pw@glstrand.dk.or
Opening: 4 September 2015
GL STRAND
Gammel Strand 48, Copenhagen
Tue - Sat 11am to 5pm, Wed 11am to 8pm