Elmer
POST-PAINTING is repetition. A beating of the well-known until it is no longer recognizable. POST-PAINTING is direct copying of the world. - Elmer
Through most of Elmer’s work, the theme of "repetition" has been a major focal point. Repetition – "a beating of the well-known" – of fragments of the social, political and cultural realities that surround us all.
From the days of "post-painting" with plastic copies of everything from swastikas, the classical paintings of art history, beer commercials, and partisan scarves over the abstract and almost banally figurative "liquorice paintings" of the 80s to the metallic portraits of female pop stars of the 90s: Elmer has always investigated how art – and especially a media so burdened by tradition as painting – can relate to and interpret media flux.
Elmer’s work is a denial of "realism" as a painterly genre, but also a denial of the ego-worshipping faith of modernism in the possibility of genuine expression. Not to point to what it IS that surrounds us, but to point to it in the art institution and thereby explode this traditional autonomous space. To point out that our accelerating flow of images gives us a fixed amount of imagery – but that the MEANING of this imagery varies depending on whether we are presented with it in a museum, in a supermarket or in a history book. Because pictures mean nothing in themselves, they refer endlessly.
Merete Jankowski, 2005
 Text in Danish (PDF)
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exhibitions
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Thomas Bangsted (DK/US)
Claus Carstensen
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Ib Geertsen
James Jessop (UK)
Alexander Laner (D)
Marie Søndergaard Lolk
Henrik Menné
Mogens Møller
Mie Mørkeberg
Bodil Nielsen
Allan Otte
Krista Rosenkilde
Christian Skeel
Anna Sørensen
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gallery view
Øivind Nygård and Elmer
NY · EL
Galleri Tom Christoffersen
2007
Øivind Nygård
Tegneren
2007
card board, wooden mouldings and MDF
h. 280 cm, w.120 cm, l. 300 cm
All paintings by Elmer are untitled and are acrylic on either canvas or board.
The dimensions are: 95 x 140 cm, 95 x 100cm, 50 x 42cm
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gallery view
Øivind Nygård and Elmer
NY · EL
Galleri Tom Christoffersen
2007 |
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gallery view
Øivind Nygård and Elmer
NY · EL
Galleri Tom Christoffersen
2007 |
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gallery view
Elmer solo exhibition
ELMER THE DANE
Galleri Tom Christoffersen
2005 |
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Elmer
Untitled
2005
acrylic on canvas
190 x 700 cm |
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gallery view
Elmer solo exhibition
ELMER THE DANE
Galleri Tom Christoffersen
2005 |
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Elmer
Untitled
2005
acrylic on canvas
190 x 138 cm |
