Per Mølgaard: November

Wilson Saplana Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition "November" by the Danish visual artist Per Mølgaard (b. 1969). For this exhibition, Mølgaard showcases oil paintings in which countless layers of paint and dry pigments evoke deep backgrounds and abstract environments. Different moods are played out here, and repeated figures such as the sharp horizon line, the backward-facing person, the empty chair, the bare branch, and the Swedish landscape appear.

Per Mølgaard graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in the late 1990s and was part of the generation of young painters who, despite the cool minimalism and conceptual art movements of the 1980s, insisted on the contemplative quality of painting and its place in Danish art history. Mølgaard freely and elegantly composes picturesque traditions and styles such as landscape painting, abstraction, interior, and portrait, using oil paint, chalk, drawing, and collage. Unlike many of Mølgaard's artist colleagues, he moved away from the big city and the emerging art scene in the early 2000s, towards the quiet Swedish archipelago, which has since formed the background, both mentally and aesthetically, for his practice.