Bruger:Lars Rahbæk Lund

Rahbek (Lars Rahbaek Lund) is born 1973. Danish contemporary artist. Graduated at The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark. Has been working as an Art Director. Owner of the advertising agency Cre'Aid. The last few years he has been working creating his own artistic impression.

Rahbek combines the politicized energy of street art with a photorealistic attenuation to volume and detail. His paintings balance painterly expression with careful control, inviting dialogue about the constant tension between freedom and repression that dictates political and personal life. Influenced by a wide spectrum of world affairs—from terror to poverty to religion—Rahbek uses his paintings to honestly react to events that catch his interest. He relies on typography, animated mark making, and cultural imagery to open up a conversation with viewers. Ultimately, art is a mode of entertainment for Rahbek, a way to engage an audience and communicate clear, open-ended messages about contemporary culture. He continually experiments with techniques, reshaping his art practice in response to the world around him.

Rahbek relishes the opportunity to promote change through art and recently donated a painting to “A Race against Breast Cancer.” Trained as an art director, he runs an independent advertising agency while pursuing his painting career. He has traveled extensively and currently lives and works in Slangerup, Denmark.

Rahbek works in an expressive universe – not because of the colour, but due to the many, seeking directions of the brushstrokes. Here is evidence of action-painting from the post-war-era using a drop tecnique where the paint is streaming down the canvas.

A universe – clearly inspirered from the sixties, with eyes on american art, from the use of text fragments in the painting to popular cultural icons, but with a darkness and a destructive atmosphere, which remind us of the punk culture and grafitti painting of the eighties.

Rahbek is born in Skjern, Denmark and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1994.

Galleries

New York: Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA, Tel. 212-226-4151

Denmark: Backyard Gallery, Hoejbro Plads 21B, DK-1200 Copenhagen K, Denmark, Tel. +45 33 93 67 00 http://www.backyardgallery.dk/rahbek

Los Angeles: Coming soon