Morten Skrøder Lund | online portfolio
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Morten Skrøder Lund, LUN_15_0002 [HR] MSL-2015_160x140cm_ Polyester,aluminumfoil,oil,varnish on canvas, (3)
A mass of impasto, Morten Skrøder Lund’s paintings are dense microcosms. Here, memories and moments are re-visioned and re-visioned, in fleshy dabs of oil, acrylic and gesso. Abstract and unmoored, these surfaces vibrate, casting the solidity of life to the wind.
Selected works
Morten Skrøder Lund, untitled, 2016
oil pencil, gesso, canvas
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2018
emulsion and inkjet ink on plastic sheets, canvas, cardboard, 28 × 20 × 4cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2015
oil, gouache, tusche on canvas, 180 × 125cm
Exhibitions and series
Wet Suction Spins Forever
Belmacz, London (UK), 2023
Installation View
Morten’s third presentation with Belmacz. Here, hung high upon the gallery’s walls, the surfaces of his paintings reverberate, almost lighting up the gallery, transforming the space into a dynamic ecosystem.
(read about the exhibition here)
Parterre
Kunstscenen.xyz, Denmark, 2019
Morten Skrøder Lund, Strip pom pom, 2019
exhibition view in Parterre, Kunstscenen.xyz, Copenhagen
“…The parterre was a noisy, often boisterous place, where talking, whistling, drunken brawls, hissing, even dancing and singing was common behaviour and where people reacted on the stage performance with applause or booing or by pelting the stage with oranges. …”
read the exhibition text here
merge
Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2018
The paintings in merge were each made by projecting visual sources onto the canvas; for example, a painting by Caravaggio depicting a horse and its fallen rider and the image of a sitting as well as a reclining figure. As each work progressed, these visual sources began to blend together, forming a third source imaged here by Morten.
(read about the exhibition here)
Morten Skrøder Lund, Iris, 2018
gesso, aluminium, oil, canvas, 150 x 200 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2018
gesso, aluminium, oil, canvas, 125 x 125 cm
ome
Belmacz, London (UK), 2018
Morten Skrøder Lund
ome, 2018, installation view at Belmacz, London
Can a painting capture a moment in time before the moment dissolves?
Morten Skrøder Lund is labouring over canvassed surfaces in order to respond to this self-imposed chore. His canvases use colour and shape outside aggregates of abstract or figurative ideas. Many 20th Century painters have extensively dealt with these alleged opposites, but Skrøder Lund seeks his thrills outside outmoded criteria, melding polar positions into a seemingly momentous painting. Forging ahead, the artist is looking to create situations and compositions, where an openness allows his forms to dissolve into a perceptible transient instance.
—Ben Street, 2018
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2017
gesso, oil, violin-bow polyester, canvas, 240 × 190 cm
Mustang
LTD Gallery, LA (USA), 2016
Morten Skrøder Lund
Mustang, installation view at LTD Gallery, LA
“The work in Lund’s exhibition is heavy on interplay and the alchemical, toying with various combinations of paints, finishes and various physical interjections with the canvas that underscore his interest not in the act of painting so much as that explicitly engaged with the hand and it’s expression of movement, but of a more expansive perspective on both the body and the paint in engagement with the surface….”
(read more here)
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2016
oil, Polyethylene Vinyl Acetate
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2016
oil, Polyethylene Vinyl Acetate
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2016
oil, Polyethylene Vinyl Acetate
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2016
oil, Polyethylene Vinyl Acetate
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2016
oil, Polyethylene Vinyl Acetate, 140 x 11 x 181
Lyst
Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2015
“Morten Skrøder Lund’s paintings often bear traces of action and material segmentation, with corporal qualities such as paint that is peeling off, paint that accumulates in puddles, jarring brushstrokes, and materials that morph under different chemical reactions.”
(read the full press release here)
Morten Skrøder Lund, untitled, 2015
vinyl paint, oil, canvas, 240 x 190 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2015
ink, lacquer, plastic, acrylic, inkjet photo print, toner, oil, canvas, 180 x 125 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2015
gesso, watercolour, toner styrofoam, lacquer, silicone, canvas, 180 x 140 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2015
acrylic, oil, tin solder, canvas, 180 x 140 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2015
oil, pencil, canvas, 95 x 65 cm
Wellbound
Belmacz, London (UK), 2014
Morten Skrøder Lund
Wellbound, installation view at Belmacz, 2014
Skrøder Lund considers himself not to be a painter but as “someone who produces paintings”. His works are textured but reduced and with a rich atmospheric intensity. He uses bold constellations of colour and subverts the usual detached and calculated formulas of what is expected in ‘process painting’.
(read the press release here)
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2013
oil on polyester, 161 × 146cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2014
ink, acrylic, varnish, industrial paint, paper, screws on canvas, 165 x 145 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2014
oil, wax, acrylic, vinyl, paint, styrofoam, glass, copper, screws on canvas, 170 x 130 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2014
mixed media on canvas, 40.5 × 30.5cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2014
gouache, oil, silicon, plastic and foam on canvas, 160 x 145.5 cm
Hang
Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2013
Morten Skrøder Lund
Hung, installation view at Christian Andersen, 2013
“Morten Skrøder Lund’s textured paintings strains from thoughts on reduction, stripping away narrative logic in favour of the disjointed.”
(read the press release here)
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2013
acrylic, lacquer, oil, metal paint, canvas, 195 x 400 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2013
acrylic, lacquer, oil, metal paint, canvas, 160 x 145 cm
Master
Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2011
Things should not always add up.
Morten Skrøder’s aim has been to rid his work of depictions and
associations to other works of art.
This can be seen as a new attempt to rid abstraction from the markers
of abstract painting. If so, it is accidental.
Rather, as in a sequence of Drone music, when a note or chord is played prolonged,
without support of a melody and recurring rhythms, all narrative progression is
overcome. Here Morten Skrøder has found a space equaling what he is painting.
The sounds bring no message outside its presence.
The painting tries to free itself from any relation.
—Staffan Boije af Gennäs, 2011
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2011
oil, canvas, 35 x 35 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2011
acrylic, varnish, canvas, 40 x 35 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2011
oil, canvas, 30 x 39 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2011
acrylic, varnish, oil, canvas, 34 x 27 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2011
acrylic, gel, canvas, 37 x 30 cm
Morten Skrøder Lund, Untitled, 2011
oil, acrylic, canvas, 35 x 35 cm
Texts and publications
ome
published on the occasion of ome, Morten Skrøder Lund second solo show at Belmacz in 2018.
Artist biography
Education. Morten completed his MFA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Professor Tumi Magnusson.
Selected exhibitions. Wet Suction Spins Forever, Belmacz, London (2023); Lys over Lolland, Sukkerfabrikken, Denmark (2019); Parterre, Kunstscenen, Copenhagen (2019); merge, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2018); ome, Belmacz Gallery (2018); Occupied With Imaginations, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö (2018); IF YOU DON’T LIKE ART, GOODBYE, FUCK OFF, GO-HOME…, Nordic Contemporary Art Collection, Vestfossen (2017); Becoming Zero, Galleri Flach, Stockholm (2017); Yey, an unusual way of spelling yay, Jir Sandel, Los Angeles (2016); Mustang, LTD Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Lyst, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2015); Group Show V, Alexander Levy, Berlin (2014); Wellbound, Belmacz, London (2014); Circus T M, Belmacz, London (2014); Hang, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2013); il monaco, Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted (2013); Ibur, with Jonas Jensen, NoMad, Frankfurt (2012); Master, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2011); Such a Short Memorial Form, Phonebos IMO, Copenhagen (2010); Brief Relief, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen (2008); Moist Envelope, Henningsen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2008).
Public collections. The Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen.
Morten lives and works in Copenhagen.
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