Hotel D’Angleterre

Nyt kunst i restauranten på Hotel D’Angleterre

Kunstneren Lars Rahbek har indgået et interessant kunst samarbejde med Hotel D’Angleterre.

Man har nu en enestående mulighed for at se Lars Rahbeks værker i Restaurant D’Angleterre.

Værkerne vil være en helt ny stil end den man hidtil har kunnet se i restauranten. Stærkere farver og mere iøjnefaldende motiver vil komme til at præge forskellige vægge. Det trænede øje vil desuden kunne ane et lille politisk budskab i malerierne.

”Vi har valgt disse billeder i samarbejde med Lars Rahbek for at få lidt mere moderne kunst ind på hotellet. Placeringerne er velovervejet i vores område omkring restauranten, og vi tror på at gæsterne vil tage vel imod dem” udtaler Adm. Direktør Hanne Lassen

Besøg restauranten og se værkerne.

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Art Is Spectrum

Article from Art Is Spectrum
New York 2008

Danish artist Rahbek's bold acrylics on canvas employ visual cues from advertising and the media to produce a new kind of Pop art relevant to the post-Pop culture. Graphic elements and typography intermix with a fluorescent spectrum of colors in an explosion of powerful, sometimes political, and often humorous imagery. Rahbek's stencil like subjects, typically rendered flatly across the canvas, bleed drips of paint down the surface of the work. This immediacy of composition, therefore, causes the works to take on a street-art appearance, as though they were hurriedly spray painted across a wall. Viewers, then, become implicit in the act, taking on the role of accomplice to Rahbek's perpetrator. In this sense, Rahbek's paintings become more than simply aesthetic objects, but interactive and entertaining experiences for audiences to enjoy. Rather than intimidating the viewer with conceptual ideals.

With more than 10 years experience as an Art Director at an independent advertising agency in Copenhagen, it is not surprising that Rahbek's visual lexicon borrows from familiar imagery and verbiage used in everyday advertising. Rahbek lives and works in Denmark and is included in the Race Against Breast Cancer collection.

ARTFLOOR presents
ATTENTION - Selfish Desires Versus Humanity
Geneva, Switzerland

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Rahbek has become Artist in Residence

International prospects outline the character of future artwork

The Danish Foreign Ministry has provided Rahbek the foundation for a more international working approach. The Ministry has recently awarded a grant that provides the opportunity to take a crucial step across the Danish border. The grant makes it easier to procure the artwork on international grounds – part of it, for instance, is provision of consultancy support from an expert in this specific field. The grant is at first used with the intention of getting in touch with the aesthetic nerve of connoisseurs in Sweden, yet it also expands opportunities in other geographic regions. Besides acknowledging the previous work of Rahbek, the Danish Foreign Ministry thereby also ensures more working space for upcoming artistic expressions.