Simon Spang-Hanssen
UDSTILLINGSTEKST: CONFLUENCES
Simon Spang-Hanssens (DK, 1955) malerier inviterer beskueren på en magisk og eventyrlig rejse, hvor det foranderlige, fantasifulde og fascinerende flyder sammen. Kunstværkerne bevæger, aktiverer og engagerer beskueren. Med farverige udtryk og legende former bliver værkerne levende med poetiske og humoristiske udtryk. De enkle men dog udtryksfulde virkemidler vidner om, at Simon Spang-Hanssens opfindsomhed og kreativitet ikke kun er forbeholdt hans musikalske karriere. Farver og former er i værkerne sat sammen i æstetiske relationer, og de flygtige gestikulationer af organiske og lyriske penselstrøg fører tankerne hen på jazzmusikkens vuggende rytmer og improvisatoriske frihed. Simon Spang-Hassen er inspirereret af bl.a. Kandinsky, Picasso og Miro, men det er tydeligt, han i værkerne har fundet sin egen ”klangfarve”, sin stil, som tjener til hans individuelle, kunstneriske udtryk.
Tekst: Cilia Espeland , kunsthistoriker
Text for the exhibition “Confluences” by art historian Cilia Espeland
“The paintings of Simon Spang-Hanssen (1955,DK), invites the viewer to a magical and adventurous journey, in which the mutable, imaginary and fascinating flows together. The artwork moves, activates and engages the viewer.
With colourful expression and playful forms the pieces comes alive with humour and poetry. The simple, yet expressive means bears witness to the fact that Spang-Hanssen’s inventiveness and creativity is not confined to his musical career.
Colours and forms are weaved together in aesthetic relations, and the fugitive gesticulations of organic and lyrical brush strokes leads our thoughts to the elastic rhythms and improvisational freedom of jazz music.
Simon Spang-Hanssen is inspired by, among others: Kandinsky, Picasso, Miró –
but it is obvious that he has found his own timbre, a style that serves his own individual artistic expression.”
Exhibitions
“Inner Cities” , Biblioteket , Danasvej, Frederiksberg, 1-31 october 2012
Kunstforeninger : ESS-Food , Brøndby – Cobham, Lyngby2014 ”Intersections” Galleri BLOCH, Kbh.2015 Kunstforeninger: Mark Information Lyngby, BASF, Rødekro
” Nattens Væsen, Dagens Nar” , Gule Villa, Fredriksberg with Jette Botchinsky,
Maria Bloch og Ole Bundgaard
exhibition in Det Lille Musikhus during Copenhagen Jazzfestival
FRB Kunst (censured), fdr. Fredriksberg Town Hall , october
Maanefiskeren, Christiania w. Rithva.dk
KU.BE, Frederiksberg
Guest with FUGA, Broendsalen, Frederiksberg
Ibrahim Yassin, Pernille Frimand, Thomas Agergaard, Hanne Piasecki…
Tranum Strand Kulturcenter w. Jens Hostrup, Martin Knakkergaard, Tine Lilholdt…