THE FAT EYE
art gallery & artist in recidence
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PER BUK
Per was born in 1969 and lives on Langeland. His work consist of company decorations, facade paintings and decorations in public spaces.
THE LIGHT BEARER
Art is often serious. If a painter's works reflect an unconditionally bright mind, it can be difficult to be taken seriously. The old masters, who are considered the most significant, are also those who have taken the most violent lives with existence; the most feted among the living are those who turn the material, the contemporary and themselves inside out. In the inner circles of the
don't hide their intentions and don't cover themselves under some sophisticated veneer. They volunteer. Invites. Smiling amused, as if they were carrying a secret, which they now reveal to the viewer: the secret of joy. And if you dare to surrender and step closer, if you dare to give in and let yourself be seduced, it is pure Alice in Wonderland.
cultural milieu, aspirational ugliness is easily confused with aesthetic pleasure, and lifestyle with intellect.But in the world of art, a small group of stubborn, smiling light bearers and mild ironists move among the dark doomsday prophets. One of them is called Per Buk.
His images can appear almost offensively positive and cheerful, and they can appear momentarily naive. It is probably precisely here that the key to the artist's world must be sought.His works are insistent. They
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- Exhibition in BIWAKO HALL and subsequent traveling exhibition in Kyoto/Otsu in Japan.
In connection with the 150th anniversary of Japan/Denmark Diplomacy.
Organizer: The Danish Embassy in Japan. - Main artist in Culture Region Funen's project MOD.STRØM. A collaboration with school students from all of Funen's 9 municipalities.
- The Danish Embassy. Manila, Philippines
- Tändstikgränd Jönköbing, Sweden
- SAK Art building. South Funen Artists
- H.C. Andersen Festival
- Ward Museum
- Artist of the Year in Svendborg
- Artists' Summer Exhibition in Tistrup
- Gallery Knud Grothe
- Sculptural artist on Destination Fyn's Manor Route
- 1st International Exhibition-Competition in Painting and mixed media. Lessedra, Bulgaria
