STEEN LARSEN
Steen Larsen born in Copenhagen 1960, is a Danish realist painter and photographer using roads and streets as a source for his artwork. Larsen is one of a small group of artists using the mimetic approach in their work – meaning they reflect reality through precision in both detail and expression. Conceptually his work with urban settings centre the tracks mankind leave behind in nature.
While driving and traveling in the USA and Europe, Larsen mounts a camera on the windshield on his car and shoots thousands of photos thatlater serve as sketches for his oil paintings. His photo-based paintings are narratives mimicking a road movie on canvas. Speed is captured atits essences as well as other present-day scenes.
In the rainscape paintings he capture some kind of reality but the raindrops at the windscreen place the artwork between realism andabstraction.