Peter Linde Busk

Name: Peter Linde Busk
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Who speaks of Victory? To endure is all

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Danish artist Peter Linde Busk examines the grotesque facets of human experience by combining defeat and despair with a rebellious humour. His art, featuring tragic and awkward figures such as fallen heroes, jesters, and outlaws set against abstract and ornamented backgrounds, employs diverse textures and techniques alongside remnants of previous creations. The book takes its title from a poetic fragment by Rilke, reflecting themes of endurance rather than victory.

This richly illustrated monograph includes a major essay by historian Maria Fabricius Hansen, which draws comparisons between Linde Busk's work, medieval mosaics, and Renaissance grotesques. It also contains a catalogue raisonné covering his works from 2015 to 2022, complemented by short prose texts and a curated playlist by writer Minna Grooss to accompany the tactile quality of the artworks.
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Format: Hardback

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This book is ideal for readers and art enthusiasts interested in contemporary art, particularly those fascinated by the grotesque, medieval and Renaissance art influences, and the intersection of texture, technique, and poetic inspiration in visual culture.

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Coupling defeat and despair with rebellious humour, Danish artist Peter Linde Busk explores the grotesque conditions of human existence. Populating his works with tragic and awkward figures like fallen heroes, jesters, or outlaws in abstract spaces of detailed ornamentation, his figurations are meticulously composed using a great variety of textures and techniques, and often incorporate random material relics from previous works. Similarly, his titles are wry quotes or poetic fragments: it is from Rilke that Peter Linde Busk has borrowed the title of the book, Who speaks of victory? To endure is all.

This richly illustrated monograph features a major essay by art historian Maria Fabricius Hansen juxtaposing Linde Busk's work with medieval mosaics and the grotesques of Renaissance art. A catalogue raisonné of works from 2015 to 2022 is supplemented by short prose texts and a playlist by writer Minna Grooss that suggests a soundtrack to the materially emphatic works by Linde Busk.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775755474

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 270 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Minna Grooss
Text by Maria Fabricius Hansen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 274.0mm

Weight: 1540g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

PETER LINDE BUSK (*1973, Copenhagen) is one of the most renowned Danish artists of his generation. Educated in London, New York and Düsseldorf and working in multiple media such as painting, sculpture, relief, and mosaic, a central theme of his work is seeing the beauty and value in what is normally considered failed. This is evident both in his motifs and in his choice of materials such as discarded matter or studio debris. Linde Busk lives and works in Berlin.