Mads Lynnerup
February 07 2009
Mads Lynnerup, You are the Artist, You Figure it Out, 2008, ink on paper, diptych at 24 x 17 3/4 inches each
Mads Lynnerup was born in Copenhagen, Denmark (1976) and lives and works in Copenhagen and New York. He recently completed an MFA from Columbia University and received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. He has shown his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; P.S. 1, New York; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw and is in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, Miami Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Modern Art.
Lynnerup applies many different media to his artwork, such as video, sculpture, and printmaking to mention a few, carefully choosing the material and process that suits his ideas the best. As a result the outcome of Lynnerup’s work is often diverse, but has remained consistent and recognizable in its approach throughout his career as an artist. Many of the themes in Lynnerup’s work has roots in his constant interest in the everyday and his surroundings, whether it’s the influence of billboards and advertisement texts, that inspired him to make the poster series “If you see anything interesting, please let someone know immediately,” that are based on anti-terrorist posters in the subway of New York City. Or his curiosity and obsession with the daily routines taking place in public space, which instigated Lynnerup’s most recent project commissioned by “U-Turn” a quadrennial in Copenhagen Denmark.
Mad's Lynnerup in conversation with himself at The Orchard
