Peter Martensen “THE POWER OF SILENCE” : June 5 – July 5, 2014

PETER MARTENSEN

THE POWER OF SILENCE

PETER MARTENSEN

535 west 25th street, nyc | 212.627.4444 www.bdgny.com cover: detail from The Crooners 1 68¾" x 98½"

opposite: The Mission 59" x 86½"

2 | The Waiting 51" x 40"

The Ruin 68¾" x 98½" | 3

4 | The Park 51" x 76¾"

The Surveillance 51" x 74½" | 5

6 | The Transportation 1 51" x 78½"

The Foundation 31½" x 39½" | 7

PETER MARTENSEN

Peter 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.

8 | The Crooners 1 68ž" x 98½"

10 | The Undone Sketches 68他" x 51"

Night Scene 11" x 14" | 11

12 | The Entrance 68他" x 51"

The Attention 68他" x 51" | 13

14 | The Box 31½" x 39½"

Strange Day 31½" x 39½" | 15

16 | The Undone Sketches 2 38" x 57½"

The Writer 33½" x 41½" | 17

18 | The Climb 15¾" x 19¾"

The Crooners 2 16½" x 20½" | 19

20 | Sketch for the Archive 14" x 11"

The Archive 48他" x 33他" | 21

22 | The Listener 2 51" x 39½"

back cover: Paysage Américain 76¾" x 98½"

The Listener 1 51" x 39½" | 23

©2014 Peter Martensen

24 | The Wall 47" x 33½"

The Care 23½" x 19¾" | 25

The Transportation 2 50½" x 35"