Jeppe Eberlein
The condensed image world of Danish artist Jeppe Eberlein meets its viewer with enveloping perspectival compositions and jagged templates of colour.
In both large scale and miniscule paintings Eberlein creates exorbitant scenarios with an immediate yet quizzical charge. Curious monolithic and organic shapes entangle with fragments of recognisable form in an illusory space which seems both closely organised and strangely distorted.
Visual as well as textual codes engage the viewer and spurs him to follow poetic and gestural threads, catalyzing new narratives and connections from inside the composition. Drawn in particular to the existential nature of everyday experience, Eberlein oscillates between references to general being and subconscious perception. Glimpses of alternative visions and awkward personal thoughts intertwine with imagery of technological devices and mundane functional systems. The canvas becomes a reservoir for collected data - bits and pieces of ideas and abstraction caught in an irrational and circuitous progression. The works of Eberlein are characterized by a dryness in their paint. This aesthetic consideration coinsides with the artist desire to create dimensions kept separate from the common world - they are not mirroring surfaces but surreal unstable spaces. Dissolving spatial boundaries he invites his viewers into a fluent universe, a mosaic in the process of constant construction and degeneration. Jeppe Eberlein embraces an image world governed by a dual sense of noisy order and silent cacophony.
/Anja Lindholm, MA Modern Culture
Jeppe Eberlein is born and lives and works in Copenhagen and graduated from the Royal Art Academy of Copenhagen, and has participated in numerous group and solo exhibition's since the mid eighties
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