Troels Wörsel – Untitled (1983)

Louisiana poster with the work, Untitled , (1983), by Danish artist, Troels Wörsel, (1950-2018), The poster was published in connection with Louisiana's exhibition of Wörsel in 2020, in the series, Louisiana on Paper. Wörsel is represented in Louisiana's collection with a number of paintings and at the time of Wörsel's death there were a large number of works on paper in his studio, the majority of which had never been exhibited before.

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Whereas contemporary art from the 1990s onwards has in many ways reflected on its own activist, social and viewer-engaging potential, Wörsel did not contribute to such agendas. What we encounter in Wörsel's works exists in a universe where art's own rules apply.

For Wörsel, we can think exactly what we want about the works, but for him art was simply something other than 'lived life'. Social life and life outside the studio play virtually no role in his pictures. A sign here and a sketch of a city plan there, otherwise nothing.

In the absence of references based on life experiences, the material is permeated by an unstoppable appetite for all things linguistic in art. The works constitute a gigantic laboratory of what affects the creation of an image.

A mystery of a kind and at the same time an energetic and all-consuming work with the material. A world on a surface, but precisely there Wörsel stood unhindered on the shoulders of the old masters and cooked with all the ingredients and handled the tools for the production of art. It is precisely in this virtuoso development that one senses the artist's conversations with the time before his own.

Dimensions: W: 59.4 x H: 84.1 cm (A1)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.