MARTIN ASKHOLM
Danish curator, collector, painter, printer and graphic artist
About
Martin Askholm (B. 1967) is educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in 1998. He lives and work in Copenhagen.
Martin Askholm has for a couple of decades been known for his elegantly hard-edge pop paintings and graphics. With inspiration varying from Japanese macabre folklore to a Disney sweetness. Parallel to his figurative art; Martin Askholm has a just as complex production of abstract art. Varying from kinetic ,geometric abstraction, to minimalism.
In both worlds it is the high technical mastership and the mix between brutality and beauty that carries the universe of Martin Askholms art.
Askholms art has been exhibited in galleries og museums in countries such as: Germany, France, Estonia, Letvia, Hungary, Brazil, China, U.S.A.,Canada, Russia and Japan.
Martin Askholm (f. 1967) er uddannet fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi i 1998 og bor og arbejder i København.
Kunstnerens værker med tegneserieagtige figurer og symbolske
referencer har rødder i 1950-
og -60’ernes pop art, og har et både minimalistisk, humoristisk og kulturantropologisk udtryk.
Han arbejder med mange forskellige materialer, og værkerne bærer præg af et højt teknisk niveau.
Martin Askholms værker har været vist på gallerier og museer i bl.a. Tyskland, Frankrig, Brasilien, Kina, U.S.A.,Canada Estland, Letland, Ungarn ,Rusland, Japan.
Martin Askholm er medlem af kunstnersammenslutningen CORNER, kunstnersamfundet, tidligere formand formand for Danske Grafikere samt en række tillildshverv i dansk kunstliv.
Full C.V. can be mailed on request
Komplet C.V. kan rekvireres på mail.
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Selected paintings 1994 - 2010
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Danish curator, collector, painter, printer and graphic artist