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Anders Scrmn Meisner
Picked and Orange for a Renaissance Girl -
Anders Scrmn Meisner
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Group exhibitions include Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen (2025); Expo Chicago with The Pit, Chicago (2025); Annual Summer Group, The Pit, Los Angeles (2024); NADA, Miami (2024); Enter Art Fair, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024); La Specola, Isabel Sullivan Gallery, New York (2024); Enter Art Fair, with Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023); The Great Big Winter Show, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); Future Memories, Singing Waves Gallery, City University, Hong Kong (2021); The Great Big Winter Show, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020); Art Herning, Hans Alf Gallery, Herning, Denmark (2019); Artists First, Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2017); Got it for Cheap Vol. 2, 3, 4 & 5, David Risley, Steinsland Berliner, Agnes B, and Black Bear, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Paris and New York (2016); Iris Time, L’Inlassable Galerie, New York, USA (2015); Micro Salon, L’Inlassable Galerie, Paris, France (2015); Kölner Liste w. Hans Alf Gallery, Köln, Germany (2015); Art Basel, Hans Alf Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (2015); Zimmer Frei, Museet Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark (2014); Forårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2012).
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Picked and Orange for a Renaissance Girl
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Meisner’s compositions are built from the lines that he jots down in his notebooks, which become the titles of the paintings that he paints onto the sidebars of his completed canvases. These act as wayfinders – clues offered after the viewer has first encountered the visual image. The effect of this can be equally destabilising as it is expansive. For instance, we might first encounter Escaped Pet-Bird as a kind of devotional image to an exotic, if not slightly awkward-looking bird, but after reading the title, an edge of anxiety creeps in, prompting questions around the life the bird lived before its newly acquired freedom and how it might cope now within the wild. Carefully Arranged, Night Time, Do Not Disturb depicts a dreamy scene of flowers and plants blowing in a midnight breeze, perhaps recalling memories of lying in the grass and of heavily scented gardens at night. But, again, when we read the title, we’re drawn to the carefully constructed nature of the painting and to a feeling of precariousness.There are less complicated moments of pleasure, too. Sleeping with Mama is drawn from Meisner’s images of his daughter crawling into bed with his wife when he is travelling, evoking the feeling of comfort and protection that sharing a bed with a parent can bring, while Lemon for gin and tonic or sorbet calls on our shared sense memory of the fruit’s familiar citrus tang and the joy and remembrance of indulging. To Meisner, each work is only the first line of a story; how it continues – and where it leads – is left to us.
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Anders Scrmn Meisner : Picked an Orange for a Renaissance Girl
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