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Michael Kvium : A Retrospective, Hardback Book

Michael Kvium : A Retrospective Hardback

Edited by Gitte Orskou

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Danish artist Michael Kvium, born 1955, works in painting, prints, drawing and watercolour, and sculpture, as well as performance and stage design.

His paintings and graphic works often resemble comic strip art or extensions of 17th-century Baroque paintings, depicting the more negative aspects of Western culture.

Motifs include grotesque monsters, half man half woman, sometimes approaching self-portraits.

He is expressing himself in a personal world of images.

His works seem familiar, making the viewer smile at one time and causing disgust at another, yet in their strange way all sharing this familiarity.

Kvium defines and expresses his wholly personal and unflinching understanding of powerful human presence in an area unexplored by others. This first comprehensive monograph takes the reader through Kvium's entire career since his beginnings in the 1980s.

It reveals the various lines in his work from early experiments as a young artist in the world of bikers to an outspoken critic of our current Western society.

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