Jens Fänge (born 1965) came to public attention in the 1990s with a distinctive figurative style in pastel colours. He often mixes figurative and abstract in absurd combinations in a manner reminiscent of Surrealism. Fänge’s images often contain references to art history and Sixties’ pop culture. The result is a visual world in which effeminate men in eighteenth-century clothing come together with pop-culture icons such as Ringo Starr in pared-back interiors or urban landscapes, as if taken from Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysical paintings. In Hans Christian Andersen (1998), the Danish storyteller is no longer a physical presence, but more a montage of different parts, a sugar sculpture straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
Kristoffer Arvidsson from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014
