Fugleburet
Formation Gallery
21 Apr 2023 – 03 Jun 2023
The exhibition A Place in the Sun demonstrates a new development in the works of Danish artist Fugleburet, while at the same time being a continuation of the artist's basic characteristics. His paintings dissolve into a higher degree of abstraction than previously seen, but the spontaneous play with colors and shapes is intact, the expression is just more delicate and suggestive – something new is afoot.
Fugleburet has often used strong colors and more concisely separate surfaces, for this exhibition however his artistic language seems renewed and even refined. A thin pencil line defines the figuration, reminiscent of the world seen from above, from a bird's perspective, and the colors meet the canvas tone by tone in light, balanced shades, and remarkable contrasts. The many pencil drawings and patterns stimulate the imagination and entice us to explore the painting further, to take it all in. For what is actually at stake here? Where exactly is the place in the sun?
The figures are reduced in size, and we move into a more fledgling miniature universe and are thus on an exciting journey of discovery to many small adventurous places and stories. There are round, soft, and organic shapes, with stories and signs everywhere on the playful canvas surface. You see the connection between idea and hand, a controlled wildness, a conscious order in chaos. The colors bridge the many elements, which harmonize and contrast from canvas to canvas.
The elegance is emphasized by Fugleburet, a strong and skilled colorist, who masters his colors. Occasionally he has expressed himself in pure contrasting colors, whereas the color palette in A Place in the Sun is refined and harmonious. There is a point in daring to calm down and turn down the volume, instead of shouting louder and louder, and in letting oneself be guided by one's understanding of and aestheticization of the color scheme. To mature is perhaps also to speak in a lower voice, but yet with a more intense tone.
The works in this exhibition seem timeless and contemporary caused by the degree of abstraction, richness of detail, and elegant color palette inviting you to revisit the painting again and again. That's what a classic aims at doing.
Text by Connie Boe Boss, art critic and founder of the art blog Cobobo.dk
Fugleburet (b.1977) is a Danish self-taught artist. His work fuses inspiration from Danish masters such as Lundstrøm and the COBRA movement and mixes it with his own characteristic motifs, e.g. the bird's beak. The artist unfolds his colorful, sharp, and playful universe in a tightly controlled style that is unmistakably his alone.
