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Jesper
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Kørner is working on a series of paintings created as a response to the deaths of Danish soldiers posted in Afghanistan. SMK owns two of these works, which all bear the name of a fallen soldier as their title. However, these updated history paintings are never portraits per se, depicting individual soldiers or the circumstances pertaining to their deaths. Rather, they are universal artistic depictions of the death, danger, and pain associated with war and its losses. In other series Kørner has taken a similar approach to arriving at a “motivic core” in the depiction of other types, e.g. prostitutes. The transgressive choice of motif is balanced out by his genuine interest in and empathy for the people and settings depicted in his painterly studies.
Title: Jesper
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Kørner is working on a series of paintings created as a response to the deaths of Danish soldiers posted in Afghanistan.
SMK owns two of these works, which all bear the name of a fallen soldier as their title.
However, these updated history paintings are never portraits per se, depicting individual soldiers or the circumstances pertaining to their deaths.
Rather, they are universal artistic depictions of the death, danger, and pain associated with war and its losses.
In other series Kørner has taken a similar approach to arriving at a “motivic core” in the depiction of other types, e.
g.
prostitutes.
The transgressive choice of motif is balanced out by his genuine interest in and empathy for the people and settings depicted in his painterly studies.