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CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN    Nov 10, 2011 - Jan 14, 2012

Loire
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Loire, 1989
 
  
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CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN

Licht ist Farbe und Form, Licht ist Lebensspender und Energiequelle, Licht ist Inspiration. So könnte man die Malerei des dänischen Malers und Mitglieds der CoBrA-Gruppe Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913-2007) auf den Punkt bringen. Pedersen hat seinen eigenen Weg gefunden, die vibrierende Energie des Sonnenlichts und das weite Spektrum der Farben – seine wichtigsten Inspirationsquellen – zum zentralen Bildinhalt zu machen.

Früh schreibt Carl-Henning Pedersen Gedichte, erst über die Malerin Else Alfelt, mit der er bis zu ihrem Tod 1974 verheiratet ist, findet er als Autodidakt zur Malerei. Schnell offenbart er sein einzigartiges Gespür für Farben und Formen, für die Poesie der Bilder.

Spuren von der pulsierenden Malweise eines Kandinskys, Klees oder Chagalls sind in seinen Bildern zu finden, doch Pedersens Themenwelt ist eine völlig andere. Seine Fabelwesen, die aus dem Hintergrund auftauchen und wieder vom Bildgrund verschluckt werden, entspringen der nordischen Mythologie und beschwören eine eigene Traumwelt voller Visionen herauf.

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CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN

Light is form and colour; light is the source of life and energy; light is inspiration. That is how you could summarize the artwork of the Danish painter and member of the CoBrA Group, Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913-2007). Pedersen has found his own unique way of turning the vibrating energy of sunlight and the wide range of colours – his most essential sources of inspiration – into the central essence of his art.

While Carl-Henning Pedersen began to write poetry early on in his life, it was not until he met the painter Else Alfelt, to whom he was married until she passed away in 1974, that he discovered his passion for painting, mastering it as an autodidact. It did not take him long to develop his unique sense of form and colour, of the poetry in pictures.
Though traces of the pulsating painting style of artists such as Kandinsky, Klee or Chagall can be found in Pedersen’s pictures, the world of his motifs greatly differs from theirs. The mystic creatures of his pictures that leap out of the background just to be swallowed up by the ground, have their roots in Nordic mythology and conjure their own unique dream world filled with visions.

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