Erik A. Frandsen
Subtitle: Giottos metode = Erik A. Frandsen : the Giotto method
By: redaktør: Karen Grøn, Katrine Stenum
Contributors: Grøn, Karen, editor; Stenum, Katrine, editor; Kunstmuseet Trapholt
Edition: 1. oplag.
Publisher: Trapholt
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Kolding
Language: dan
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9788772690704
Subjects: Exhibitions; Danish Painting
Other titles: Giottos metode; Giotto method; Erik A. Frandsen :
Description: His self-imposed isolation led to an extremely productive, experimental period and resulted in a large number of paintings. The works are sensuous interiors, featuring an accumulation of cultivated beauty in the shape of books, sculptures, quotes from paintings, pots and labyrinthine carpets. The distinctive structures of the rooms are broken up by a myriad of organic patterns and often feature a large, lush bouquet of flowers as a key eye-catching element. ... The title of the exhibition, The Giotto Method refers to the experiments with spatiality and perspective conducted by the painter/architect Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337). In these early investigations of perspective, it is as if foreground, middleground and background fuse, and the elements of the picture come across as flat layers on top of each other. Erik A. Frandsen's quarantine paintings are constructed on the basis of this principle. It is this construction of an intimate pictorial space that so captured Frandsen's interest. In these paintings, he seeks to establish a sense of 'we' that extends beyond the representation of motifs. Because, during the corona pandemic, it is not only in the paintings, but also in everyone's lives that foreground, middleground and background have merged in both beautiful and frightful moments. -- (from publisher's description)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in Danish and English.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Trapholt, Kolding, February 10 - November 20, 2022.