Viewing Room
Per Lunde Jørgensen
March 7 - April 8

The gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Per Lunde Jørgensen in the viewing room from March 7 - April 8. This is the gallery’s first presentation of the Copenhagen-based artist’s work. The exhibition will include a floor to ceiling modular installation comprised of individual canvases featuring forms of a single color or related set of colors. The textural surfaces of color, sewn into raw canvas, are in fact upholstery fabrics taken from office chairs that the artist researches in classified ads and buys in and around Copenhagen. The title of each final work refers to the location where the chairs were initially collected.

As the artist writes,

It is argued that when a work of art is successful - when the work works - then it has the potential to engulf one and leave one wanting to be consumed by the work or to consume it themselves. That aspect of osmosis is evident in many of my projects, where I integrate material from used everyday objects such as chairs and curtains, and where entering and absorbing are literal parts of a process of collecting private possessions on e.g. English Gumtree, American Ebay and the Danish Den Blå Avis. Seat covers, sofa upholstery and curtains, materials that were either contact surfaces or shields between interior and exterior, and between public and private sphere, are subsequently sewn into unprimed canvas and thereby transformed into pictures.

The works all have a geographical relation as well as an individual history with a family or workplace, and are in a way related to both portrait, landscape and color field painting, but they also have an outspring in the 1960s art strategies around intervention and process. On a formal level, the boundaries between pictorial space and object are explored in a new type of hybrid object image, which oscillates between recognition and abstraction. The works have strong decorative qualities in their simple color and form language, and are often installed modularly, to dismantle the autonomy of the individual image.  And, they become elements where the artist subject is somewhat withdrawn, giving space for to the viewer to enter.

-Per Lunde Jørgensen

Per Lunde Jørgensen was born in Aarhus, Denmark (1964) and he lives and work in Copenhagen and London. He holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and has had several solo shows at Galleri Søren Houmann and at The Danish Cultural Ministery´s Kunsthal O-Overgaden. He has participated in a wide range of exhibitions including Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany, SMK The Danish National Gallery, and KØS, Denmark, and has exhibited at several art museums in Scandinavia. His works are collected by The Danish Art Counsel, The Berkowitz Art Foundation, and numerous other private collections. In 2024 his works will be part of Personal Structures at Palazzo Mora in Venice.