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- Adam Saks is a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, in short, an astounding inventor of images and besides that, an outstanding protagonist of his generation in Scandinavia.
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Adam Saks is a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, in short, an astounding inventor of images and besides that, an outstanding protagonist of his generation in Scandinavia.
Adam Saks was born in 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1993 to 1999. In 1996-97 he studied at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Germany, under Professor Bernd Koberling. Adam Saks currently lives and works in Berlin.
Adam Saks’s work is rich in charged symbols. He explores questions relating to masculinity, sexuality, violence and death, but also to love.
Apr 24, 2021 · In the seven new paintings created for this exhibition, Adam Saks employs the phenomenology of nature to establish a nature-like but painterly realm. By fragmenting the human figure into legs or arms, almost as x-ray-images, he condenses those limbs to elemental symbols.
Adam Saks belongs to the early-2000s generation of painters who pull freely from various artistic sources. He is known for picking his subject matter from different periods of art history and visual culture, thereby deriving fascinating parallels and meaning: the themes rise from art history and previous visual art and from pop art and outsider ...
Adam Saks (b.1974, Copenhagen) lives and works in Berlin. Saks graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Hochschule für Kunste, Berlin and is the receipient of numerous awards including Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, Artist Award, 2003, Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfond, 2009 and the Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant, 2014.
In his paintings and works on paper, Adam Saks offers a contemporary, mixed-media take on the traditional still life genre. In pop art fashion, Saks’s work is dense with cultural and political allusions that range from colonialism and comics to …
