Udstillingsview: Anders Bonnesen, <i>Watch your language</i> 2021

Anders Bonnesen

Anders Bonnesen works in a multitude of media: street signs, crocheted cotton or maculated literature, bronze, blackout blinds, painting, woodcuts, wood, carpets and multiples. In all these types of media, he focuses on language, words and letters.

Udstillingsview: Anders Bonnesen, Watch your language 2021
About
Born 1976 in Danmark. Graduated from Det Jyske Kunstakademi (DJK), Aarhus i 2000 and from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen in 2005. Lives and works in Copenhagen.

Primary media
sculpture, installation, painting


Anders Bonnesen works in a multitude of media: street signs, crocheted cotton or maculated literature, bronze, blackout blinds, painting, woodcuts, wood, carpets and multiples. In all these types of media, he focuses on language, words and letters. As the core of moderne living, communication, is turned upside down, twisted, words shiftet, Anders Bonnesen confuses us, he makes us laugh and he makes us wonder who - and at times where - we really are in this stream of messages, turned around sayings and poetic quotes. As the language gets desoriented, so do we.
Some works by Anders Bonnesen are executed in somewhat surprising materials - as in his large portraits of writers in hand-crocheted, maculated literature or a complete poem by Danish writer Per Højholt handknitted into a 76 meters long scarf.