Lot 70 - Lasse Thorst - Blue Tone

ARTIST INFO

About

Lasse Thorst lives and works in Aalborg, Denmark. His artistic style is colorful, expressionistic and figurative. As a Nordic painter, he´s particularly interested in the classical landscape, but often used as a setting for portrayed characters, which are placed in these – for them – unfamiliar scenarios. They’re personal and freely painted, but often inspired by old photos and somehow relate to the artist’s surroundings. Here, the people portrayed reveal in one way or another a particular time or historical period, where the landscape setting seems almost timeless. This makes the works both traditional and modern at the same time. As a matter of fact, Thorst works more like an abstract painter, where he does not use sketches but tests his ideas directly on the canvas. He works in quick sessions – usually wet on wet – with oil. Thorst’s past as a musician and a Grammy-nominated songwriter is clear in his urge to tell stories with his significant, expressive and rhythmical brush strokes.

Education

2019: Aarhus Academy of Fine Art (Denmark) (leave from 2020)
2016: Senior Lecturer, Culture and Communication
2012: MA, Globalization and Integration, Syd Dansk Universitet
2006: BA, Visual arts teaching, Aalborg Seminarium

Select Exhibitions/Awards

Solo/Duo exhibitions:
2023: “Under a Marquee Moon” Albert Contemporary, DK
2022: “Sinners Feast” SPRING BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles, US
2022: “Wildflowers” Galerie Wolfsen, DK

Selected Group shows:
2022: “Our Winter Show” Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm (SE) 
2022: “Watch Me Burn” Ruttkowski;68, Paris (FR)
2022: “Road to Somewhere” The Room, London (UK)
2022: Marrow Gallery, San Francisco (US)
2022: Delphian Gallery, Unit1 Gallery, London (UK)
2022: “A Drawing Show” VO Curations, London (UK) 
2021: “Emergence” Rise Art Gallery, London (UK) 
2021: “Gelée Royale” Galerie Rompone, Cologne (DE) 
2021: “Vol ll.” Á Mon Avis, Copenhagen (DK) 
2021: “Figurative Samplers” Det Ny Kastet Art Museum, Thisted (DK) 
2021: “The Winner Takes It All” Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg (DK) 
2020: “Phoenix – the resurrection show” Galerie Rompone, Cologne (DE)
2019: Aarhus academy of fine art – Art Weekend Aarhus (DK)

Art Fairs:
Spring Break Art Show (US) (SOLO show “Sinners Feast”) (2022)
LA Art Show (US) 25th anniversary of LA Art Show (2020)
Art Herning (DK) (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
NORTH (DK) (2018, 2019)
 

Gallery Representation

Albert Contemporary (Denmark)

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