the Bookshop Project space, April 18, 2011
The painting developed without any clear plan or goal. First I painted a pig which lives 200 meters from my residence in Seydisfjordur from there one thing took to another and this is the result. I want to leave it as open as possible and I hope it will be experienced as productive of meaning rather than being perceived as expressive of any pre-given message. However that may be, the painting does contain some references to factory farming.
Tom Backe Rasmussen
Artist in residence at the Hóll residency during March May 2011.
Tom Backe Rasmussen is born in Svendborg, Denmark. He studied at the academies in Amsterdam, Oslo and Copenhagen. He works in a crossover of media, including installation, sculpture, video, performance and photography, currently focusing on painting. The works emerge at the intersection of a variety of approaches; the critical, the absurd, the analytical and the poetic. Relating to current global/local transitions and changes, switching between microcosmic and macrocosmic views. There is an effort to make visible underlying structures and patterns in society and create a space for the contemplation of the human condition in a parallel now.