lars christensen
Lars Christensen is a Danish visual artist who works in various media and is most known for his innovations in Geometric Abstraction and his explorations into the subjective experience of colour. He is predominantly preoccupied with painting and sculpture, which are often included as part of serial sequences. Christensen expresses himself through simple, but at the same time, complex forms, thereby expanding the possibilities for interpretation. His practice is founded on an interest in the partially connected phenomenological and postmodernist currents in art theory, philosophy, literature, and sociology. Christensen lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He received an MFA from the School of Design in Kolding and studied at the College of Art and Design in Leeds.
Christensen’s work is a study of painting as an artistic tradition. He explores its formal character and pictorial space, its limits and boundaries. Christensen’s works operate on the border between two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional sculpture, thus questioning traditional artistic categories. Christensen challenges the idea of art’s originality and universality. His works are not limited to universal interpretations. Instead, they make possible a diverse range of approaches and attitudes, whereby meaning is created and developed through dialogue and interaction.
