Per Bak Jensen

Guardian, 2022

“Guardian” is the name of this large-format photograph. But what is being guarded here? The Danish artist Per Bak Jensen shoots his photographs with a deep depth of focus. As a result, the resilient plants growing among the play of light and shadow on the inhospitable stones can be recognised in precise detail. They don’t really require any protection, instead, it’s the aspect of the stones’ enduring quality, their loyal persistence, that has determined the title of the photograph here. Hard-edg...

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MKdW (2024, erworben mit Förderung der New Carlsberg Foundation).
Per Bak Jensen: The Shadows Wandering. Pictures and Words, Kopenhagen 2022, Abb. S. 22.
Katrin Hippel: Per Bak Jensen – Andeutungen des Unsichtbaren, in: Per Bak Jensen. Humming Earth, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Heide 2023, S. 28–29, Abb. S. 41.
[Weiterführende Literatur] Mikkel Bogh: Per Bak Jensen. The Unseen Image, Klampenborg 2006.

Per Bak Jensen (*1949)

Guardian

2022

C-print, Mat Diasec

120 x 168 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 11 BAK 01_DPL

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2024

Not on display

Ankauf ermöglicht durch die New Carlsberg Foundation / Acquisition made possible by the New Carlsberg Foundation

Foto: Per Bak Jensen/Galleri Bo Bjerggaard; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025