Per Bak Jensen

Luminous, 2023

Is the glass half empty or half full? This is the question Per Bak Jensen addresses to the viewers of his photograph. Will the prominent shadow continue to expand across the harvested maize field or will it recede? The play of light and shadow has occupied the Danish artist Per Bak Jensen since his earliest photographs, which he took in the Copenhagen Zoo at the age of ten. Back then, the dark shadows found their way into the boy’s pictures by chance – it was almost a mystery to him. He kept acc...

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MKdW (2024, erworben mit Mitteln der FFM sowie weiterer Förder*innen des MKdW).
Per Bak Jensen. Humming Earth, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Heide 2023, S. 79 (Abb.).
[Weiterführende Literatur] Mikkel Bogh: Per Bak Jensen. The Unseen Image, Klampenborg 2006.

Per Bak Jensen (*1949)

Luminous

2023

C-print, Mat Diasec

120 x 168 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 11 BAK 02_DPL

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2024

Not on display

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