Martin Bigum

Martin Bigum is a Danish painter, poet, writer, and video artist. Born in Copenhagen in 1966. He is best known today for his paintings. During the 1980s he worked as comic artist for the Danish version of Mad Magazine.

Bigum's work is focused on uniting High Art and Low Art in comic-style paintings and video installations. Unlike former pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, his aim is not to show the emptiness of pop culture, but rather its fullness. His ambition is to create his own mythology through art.

Works

Heartland, 1990–1991

Bigum's first exhibition Heartland showed a new artist, trying out different techniques, addressing questions to contemporary art. Still, the two paintings in comic art style First Sight 1 and First Sight 2 gave an impression of what he was about to become. Each of these two pictures presents a child thrown into a dream of colours, coping with this situation as well as they can. Maybe they are psychological self-portraits of the artist himself.

Radical Myth, 1992–1993

Literary Body, 1994–1995

Millennium, 1995–1996

The Homecoming, 1997–2002

Chr. IV: Barn og Konge, 2003–2004

The Face of God 2002–2006

References

• Martin Bigum on artnode.se
• Martin Bigum - Official internet site

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