Poetic Play with Colours
Contemporary artist Malene Landgreen (b. 1962) is preoccupied with colours and how they affect us as viewers. Her idiom consists of beautiful, harmonious colour combinations and geometric shapes. She thus works with some of the basic components of visual art but gives her works a wonderfully poetic and positive expressions, and as a viewer one is enveloped by a sensuous play of colour.
She has been called one of Danish art's "favourite colourists" – and her artwork as "a pure journey of pleasure and joy through the world of colour". With her simple tools, Landgreen wants to make an impression on our thoughts and implicitly influence us with her ideas about what the world should look like. That is what art can and must be, according to the artist – otherwise it is meaningless. Landgreen's works has clear connections going back to Concrete Art’s non-figurative expression.
Landgreen studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1984 to 1994 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1987-88. Today, her works are exhibited all over Denmark – and internationally from Berlin to Miami. The format ranges from small to huge, and she works with both canvas, murals, fabrics, installations and the so-called "in situ" works for exhibitions. She often uses the architecture around the works and has decorated rooms in private companies and several public buildings, including Rigshospitalet, Nyborg Highschool and the Copenhagen Main Library.
