ERIK A. FRANDSEN, Denmark

Erik A. Frandsen (b. 1957, Randers) is a selftaught artist.

Having chosen an unconventional path, dispensing of the traditional academic training, Frandsen takes his inspiration from all areas of life, as well as from art history and the artisans he has encountered through his extensive studies. In the years 1976-1979 he went to Greece to study ceramics, spent time in Carrara, Italy training as a sculptor, and traveled to Paris, France where he worked with graphics.

Erik A. Frandsen’s oeuvre is characterized by a recycling of motives and the application of these to various mediums, with an altogether different expression as the end result in order to illuminate that, which is not visible at first glance.

A frequent motif by Erik A. Frandsen is the flower composition, although they are not flower motifs in the traditional sense, but rather images of interiors in which the flowers are centrally placed. Frandsen’s flowers of choice are weeds such as thistles and dandelions placed in urine bottles in kitsch vases. In an art historical context the flower motif has sustained as a symbol of beauty, sensuality, life, death, and vanity. Erik A. Frandsen has earlier applied the flower motif as a symbol in his artistic exploration of intimacy, relationships, and home life as the chosen themes of his paintings.

Erik A. Frandsen has exhibited widely abroad as well as in Denmark – e.g. ARoS, New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Arken, Statens Museum for Kunst and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

 

CV 

 

 

Giotto's Method, Trapholt 2022:

 

 

• Edouard Vuillard's Desk, 2020 Edouard Vuillard's Desk, 2020
• Gulbergsgade (small), 2021 Gulbergsgade (small), 2021
• Ghisallo, 2021 Ghisallo, 2021
• Sugar Bowl, 2021 Sugar Bowl, 2021
• Paintbrush Lily in a Svend Hammershøi Vase, 2021 Paintbrush Lily in a Svend Hammershøi Vase, 2021
• Untitled, 2021 Untitled, 2021
• Guldbergsgade (large), 2021 Guldbergsgade (large), 2021
• Untitled, 2021 Untitled, 2021
• Untitled, 2021 Untitled, 2021
• Light and Shadow, 2021 Light and Shadow, 2021
• Fælledvej 21, 2021 Fælledvej 21, 2021
• Fælledvej 23, 2021 Fælledvej 23, 2021
• The Pigeons from Stavanger, 2021 The Pigeons from Stavanger, 2021
• Untitled, 2021 Untitled, 2021
• Giotto's Method #1, 2020 Giotto's Method #1, 2020
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Available Works:

 

 

Paintings

 

• Saint Elizabeths, 2021 Saint Elizabeths, 2021
• Como, 2021 Como, 2021
• Hesnæs, 2021 Hesnæs, 2021
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Drawings and watercolors

 

• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Basic Europe, 2015 Basic Europe, 2015
• Tour de France, 2019 Tour de France, 2019
• Tour de France, 2019 Tour de France, 2019
• Tour de France, 2019 Tour de France, 2019
• Tour de France, 2019 Tour de France, 2019
• Flower Angles II, 2018 Flower Angles II, 2018
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Mosaics and steelworks

 

• Morandi's tablet - 2015 Morandi's tablet - 2015
• Morandi's tablet - 2015 Morandi's tablet - 2015
• Morandi's tablet - 2015 Morandi's tablet - 2015
• Morandi's tablet - 2015 Morandi's tablet - 2015
• Morandi's tablet - 2015 Morandi's tablet - 2015
• Morandi's tablet - 2015 Morandi's tablet - 2015
• Masaccio's “The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” as Painted by Giovanni Giacometti, 2017 Masaccio's “The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” as Painted by Giovanni Giacometti, 2017
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Selected Works:

 

• Commission at Realdania Commission at Realdania
• Flower compositions (2012) Flower compositions (2012)
• Stone Mosaic Piazza del Popolo (2005) Stone Mosaic Piazza del Popolo (2005)
• The Family Series (1998) The Family Series (1998)
• The Jalta Series (1989) The Jalta Series (1989)
• You get 2500 (1988) You get 2500 (1988)
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• Crown Princess Mary in her study Crown Princess Mary in her study
• Flowers (2005) Flowers (2005)
• Cannabis (2006) Cannabis (2006)
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