Collection 4 THE NORTH

Exhibition: „Extent Immeasurable“
Artist: Morten Andersen
Location: Liebkranz Galerie
Augustrasse 62
10117 Berlin - Mitte
Open: March 1st 2013
Running: 6 weeks
www.liebkranz.de
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KALTBLUT: I’ve followed your work for 6 years
now, and I love your unique and abstract style..
but how about if you had to paint a realistic face
or portrait of someone, could you?
MORTEN ANDERSEN: Not at all! I can’t really
draw and I don’t practice it anymore like back in the
days when I was writing and needed a sketch with
letters to start. Abstract is an art form that is built on
something different. Surely you need to be in control of
the brush, marker etc... but abstract is nothing actually.
It’s forms, shapes, elements working together like a
giant puzzle. People are often astonished by their own
lack of knowledge to „tell what it is“, but when I tell
them: „you’re absolutely right - it’s hard to understand
because it is nothing! It’s like instrumental music,
you’re not supposed to understand, there’s no lyrics, it’s
about feelings!“ Then they’re feeling relaxed again.
KALTBLUT: What do you feel makes a good
piece of abstract work? What makes abstraction
special for you?
MORTEN ANDERSEN: It‘s when you can’t tell, but
it hits you in the stomach and you get that feeling like,
yeah it’s right on spot, have no idea why, but it’s there,
I feel it! That’s what my work is about, I’m not telling
you anything specific, anything political, pointing
fingers or something. I’m trying to convey to you an
experience through senses, something different, out of
the ordinary. I once named a solo show „I see colors
like you hear jet planes” - maybe this gives you an idea
about how to try to attack abstraction for a better understanding.
Don‘t try to understand it with a specific goal
in mind or a special optic, because then you‘ll loose.
Feel free... open your mind and let loose.
KALTBLUT: So, the most important question saved
till last, where can we actually see your work
on show?
MORTEN ANDERSEN: „Pieces of the Sky“. February.
Galerie Wolfsen. Aalborg, Denmark 2013
Soloshow. March 1st. Galerie Liebkranz. Berlin, Germany
2013
Museum groupshow. March 24th. Saarbrücken, Germany
2013 35 urban artists groupshow.
Amongst them: (Futura, Rammellzee, Quik, Retna,
Dare, Reso, Invader, Doze Green, Shepard Fairey ...)
Best of BSA (Berlin Selected Artists). Galerie Wolfsen.
June. Aalborg, Denmark 2013
Soloshow. November. Galerie Wolfsen. Aalborg, Denmark
2013
KALTBLUT: Great Morten. Thanks so much for
sharing that insight with us at Kaltblut! Any last
words??
MORTEN ANDERSEN: Thanks to you, Oryanne,
for inviting me to do this interview, always a pleasure
to work with you. High-fives and much respect to my
Danish curator Rasmus Ejaas Fischer from Galerie
Wolfsen and Kent Wolfsen who runs the gallery, these
guys I owe a lot for believing in me and taking my art
to new heights! My Berlin curator Uwe Goldenstein for
pushing me down here. Any one who follows my art
and have been watching over the years, keep following,
I’m only just getting started.
www.m-andersen.com