Walking in parks at night

Berlin in the snow

Winter in Berlin

Above and after the jump cherry blossoms covered in snow

and a couple of other photographs taking in the last couple of days

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I started this blog a year and eight months ago.

My aim was to upload something each week,

not that I always have. 

but still this is post No 100.

Unlike my webpage that is still under deconstruction, 

I wanted it to be less formal 

and be able to include things that does not fit my website format, 

but still would work when someone would be looking for something specific.

The image is a bit of a time travel back to either 1992 or 1993.

I'm sitting in my uncles garden, dressed as always all in black trying to stay pale.

Drawing in one of my drawing books, 

with my favorite pen, the wonderful Rotring Rapidograph size 0.25 mm

that I still use.

At the time I would go almost no where without my walkman, 

listening a lot to tapes among them:

The Cure: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration  

David Bowie: "Heroes", Sort Sol: Flow My Firetear, 

 The Jesus and Mary Chain: Automatic, Primal Scream: Screamadelica,

Lars H.U.G.: City Slang, Blidt Over Dig

Copenhagen Dreaming

I just came back from a trip to Copenhagen.

I had a nice time with the family at christmas, 

and spend some time in a couple of my favorite places, 

Frederiksberg Park and The National Museum.

Here are some of the photographs I took during the trip.

Death Vessel

Death Vessel At The Cooper Square Hotel. 2013. 70x50. Oil on canvas.

Gallerie MøllerWitt has a couple of days left of the annual Christmas exhibition Op Til 2014.

The last day is the 22nd of December.

There among other works you can see my Death Vessel painting, 

that I made from a photo I took of him some years ago 

when he preformed at the The Cooper Square Hotel in New York,

it was a benefit for Participant INC.

My photo was back lit, so I re-imagined his face.

After the jump you can see some drawings I made 

at the same time as the painting.

A Berlin walk

I had a meeting in Mitte today, and decided to walk home afterwards.

As always I had my camera with me,

Here follows a couple of pictures from a wet Berlin.

First Snow

The first snow is falling right now, I love the snow.

Jonas' Julekort

Today and tomorrow is the exhibition of Jonas' Julekort

It is a show with a lot of artists who each have donated a work,

The work are sold just for 500 dkr

The money goes to the a shelter for homeless men in Copenhagen called Mændenes Hjem

At the show you can't see the name of what artist created the work you are looking at, 

you just have to go with what you like, quiet nice, 

so the drawing above is not the one I did for the fundraiser, 

but one I did two days ago her in Berlin.

There are a bunch of good artists taking part in Jonas' Julekort.

The exhibition of the work: 4-5 December at 10-18

The sale starts on Friday the 6th December from 18-22
and last until Saturday the 14th of December, daily from 10-18
Gothersgade 30,
København K

Here are a link to more info on the thing and a list of all the artists taking part.

LINK

Tommy's view

Two months ago when I was last in New York we stayed for a couple of days 

at my friend Tommy McKean's flat in the East Village.

When at Tommy's I always have to look out this window, 

with the great view facing uptown, it has the Empire State Building in the distance, 

His flat is very cosy and green, with big plants both inside and outside,

it feels good to be there.

Tommy is a writer, storyteller and artist he has written a series of children books

he does drawings and a lot of work using metro cards.

You can see some of his work here Link

Monday at the end of a finger tip

A few new drawings, from the last couple of weeks.

Titanic Bar

I'm back in Berlin after a really nice opening of Titanic Bar at Galerie MøllerWitt,

Here are some installation shots and images of all of the work in the exhibition,

for the ones that can't make it to the gallery. 
You can see it all after the jump, click on the images to enlarge.

Titanic Bar
October 4 - 29
Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 11.30-17, Saturday 11-16
Gallerie MøllerWitt
Christiansgade 18
Aarhus
Denmark

 

At the hanging

A shot from yesterday morning wile planning a salon style hanging of the small paintings at Galerie MøllerWitt,

I'll post pictures of the exhibition when I'm back in Berlin.

Titanic Bar warm up

3 Friends. 2013. 20x20 cm. Oil on canvas.

On Friday my exhibition Titanic Bar will open at Gallerie MøllerWitt in Aarhus.

As usually I don't know exactly what will be in the exhibition before I do the hanging.

Here I am sharing some photos of the works that is waiting in the gallery, 

that might end up in the exhibition. 

I saw this beautiful image online, of a man seen from the back walking towards a bar 

that had a neon sign above it spelling out titanik bar, 

the rain is pouring down, the only other thing in this film noir image is an old VW beetle. 

That image set me going in drawing my large Titanic Bar drawing.

After completing the drawing I found and watched the great slow movie, 

Damnation from 1988 by Béla Tarr.

Titanic Bar
Opening 4 October at 16-18
October 4 - 29
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday 11.30-17
Saturday 11-16
Gallerie MøllerWitt
Christiansgade 18
Aarhus
Denmark

See more work after the jump.

The lost and found

And You Want To Travel Blind found and photographed by Magnus Thierfelder

The book fair is over, it was as usually a great experince to talk to everyone there and see all the cool books, 

the most difficult thing is not to buy too many book, most of what I got this time was old art catalogs,

 a Jackson Pollock and a Clyfford Still both from 1969, 

both very beautiful with all the images printed on very thin paper that was chipped in,

they make me want to do a book like that.

My friend the artist Magnus Thierfelder found And You Want To Travel Blind on his way, 

walking over the Williamsburg Bridge, 

someone had lost the book on the bridge then someone put it on the railing to be found.

See some of Thierfelder work here Link

For The Love Of Books

It's time for the The NY Art Book Fair opening next week.

I'm very much looking forward to going there again, it's great to meet all the people

 interested in artists books, and the other publishers.

This year I have four new books: Ladies, All Is Well, Fun Time and Purify Or Magnify, 

it is also a chance to get Written In Fur Drawn In Snow

 and off course some of the older titles, that have not sold out yet.

This year Fluens Forlag will be at Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair for the first time.

I wish I could be there myself but it is at the same time as the one in New York.

Lubok will be at Miss Read next to Fluens Forlag, 

they have Lubok 11 that has eight lino prints by me in it.

It is free to get into both of the fairs.

The NY Art Book Fair
Fluens Forlag
19-22 September
Thursday, September 19, 6–9 pm
Friday, September 20, 11 am–7 pm
Saturday, September 21, 11 am–9 pm
Sunday, September 22, 11 am–7 pm
MoMA PS1
New York
USA

Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair
Fluens Forlag
19-22 September
Thursday, 19, Preview 12–4pm, Opening 4–9pm
Friday, 20, 12–7 pm
Saturday, 21, 12–7 pm
Sunday, 22, 12–7 pm
abc Art Berlin Contemporary
Luckenwalder Strasse 4-6
10963, Berlin
Germany

Orchid

I took this photograph a couple of days ago, of the withe orchid on my window still.

Paintings in the sun

Three paintings in my sunny living room this morning.

For Your Pleasure

My secretary Dear Prudence who traveled with me all the way from New York to Berlin, 

gracefully hanging out in the studio with For Your Pleasure.

Beer

Beer. 2013. 29,7x21 cm. Ink on paper.

On Friday the exhibition Beer 4 opens at Byens Kro.
It's arranged by the two artists Melou Vanggaard and Christian Finne
It's a bunch of small works related to beer by a lot of artists.
It's usually a lot of fun and crowded at the openings, in this old very smoky bar, 

one of the few bars where a lot of artists hang out in Copenhagen.


Beers 4
Opening Friday  30. august
30.august – 1.oktober
Byens Kro
Møntergade 8
Copenhagen
Denmark

I thought this was David Dellagi's cool gold shoe on the counter of the bar at Byens Kro back in 2011, but it's actually
Anders Brinchs. Apparently my memory is as foggy as the air in the bar.  see his Oxygen Island here Link.

Music On My Mind

Gimme Some Truth. 2013. 71x54 cm. Color pencil on paper.

Friday is the opening of the group exhibition Music On my Mind opens at Charlotte Fogh Gallery in Århus, Denmark.

I have two pieces in the exhibition. The watercolor New York City, it shows the text from an iconic photograph of John Lennon wearing a T-shirt with that writing on it. 

The other piece is a drawing, a portrait of a young man. In the documentary Gimme Some Truth (2000) about the making of the album Imagine, filmed in 1971. There is a very touching part where this unnamed man shows up on Lennon's doorstep, he has been camping out at the park of their home Tittenhurst Park in Ascot where the recordings took place, he is obviously on drugs, probably on an acid trip, he has come to meet Lennon, he wants to talk to him to get to know the truth, he thinks the songs were written for him. Lennon comes out on the steps in front of the house together with Ono and some other people, talks to the confused young man, explaining that the songs are written for him self or maybe Ono if its a love song. When the conversation is stalling Lennon asks if he is hungry and invite him in for a bite to eat.

Music On my Mind is curated by the artist Rose Eken

The artists are: Kasper Eistrup, Graham Dolphin, Ben Venum, Thorgej Steen Hansen, Celie Falières, Christian Finne, Anika Lori, Jasper Sebastian Stürup,  Vinyl-Terror & Horror, Ragnar Persson, Søren Behncke, Rachel Cattle, Rose Eken and Jonas Liveröd

Opening 23 August at 4-8

23 August - 21 September

Tuesday - Friday 12-17

Saturday 11 – 15

Charlotte Fogh Gallery

Mejlgade 18 B

8000 Aarhus C

Denmark

New York City. 2011. 32x24 cm. Watercolor on paper.