peter martensen “the power of silence” : june 5 – july 5, 2014

PETER MARTENSEN

THE POWER OF SILENCE

PETER MARTENSEN

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cover: detail from The Crooners 1 68¾" x 98½" opposite: The Mission 59" x 86½"

�e Ruin 68¾" x 98½" | 32 | �e Waiting 51" x 40"

4 | �e Park 51" x 76¾" �e Surveillance 51" x 74½" | 5

6 | �e Transportation 1 51" x 78½" �e Foundation 31½" x 39½" | 7

8 | The Crooners 1 68¾" x 98½"

PETER MARTENSENPeter Martensen, born 1953 in Odense, Denmark, is a talented artist in several regards; he is a skilled visual artist, painter and musician.

Martensen studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Odense, Denmark from 1971-1977 and consequently studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in

Copenhagen from 1982-1984. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe. He has also been commissioned to make

pieces for the NOKIA Head Office and Saxo Bank Head Office in Copenhagen, Denmark among several other corporate commissions. His work

is part of several prominent public collections, including the Statens Museum in Denmark, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the

Gothenburg Art Museum in Sweden.

His oil on canvas works recall Thomas Eakins and Edward Hopper but they have a style distinctly his own. Using a limited palette of

subdued colors, Martensen confronts the modern, urban world of today and the isolation and loss of individuality that is possible within such

a crowded space. Furthermore, Martensen is gifted in many fields beyond oil painting. He creates highly skilled video art, watercolors, portraits

and sculptures. Peter Martensen, along with two other painters, Svend Danielsen and Peter Holmgren, founded a group of sound performers

in 1990; this group remains active today with 14 members. He currently lives and works in all these mediums in Hellerup, a small Danish town

just outside of Copenhagen.

10 | �e Undone Sketches 68¾" x 51" Night Scene 11" x 14" | 11

12 | �e Entrance 68¾" x 51" �e Attention 68¾" x 51" | 13

14 | �e Box 31½" x 39½" Strange Day 31½" x 39½" | 15

16 | �e Undone Sketches 2 38" x 57½" �e Writer 33½" x 41½" | 17

18 | �e Climb 15¾" x 19¾" �e Crooners 2 16½" x 20½" | 19

20 | Sketch for the Archive 14" x 11" �e Archive 48¾" x 33¾" | 21

back cover: Paysage Américain 76¾" x 98½"22 | �e Listener 2 51" x 39½" �e Listener 1 51" x 39½" | 23

24 | �e Wall 47" x 33½" �e Care 23½" x 19¾" | 25

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The Transportation 2 50½" x 35"