Husk Mit Navn (DK)
Urban Space
Husk Mit Navn
Born 1975 in T�strup, Denmark
Lives in Copenhagen
While some artists work primarily within the framework of the art institution, others, like Husk Mit Navn (Remember My Name), target the public realm. In his seven years as a street artist, Husk Mit Navn has crafted an idiom which, for all the mordancy of its take on the political scene, has endeared itself to the public, both domestically and abroad.
It is the story of an artist who started on the street incognito, equipped with a spray can and roll of poster paper, and ended up establishing his name in a wider arena than the art scene. His artistic manifestations include street posters (including self prints), graffiti, T-shirts, drawings and illustrations for a whole range of media - and latterly sculptures too, which give life to the comical figures who are the butts of his criticism.
The naive, strikingly stylised figures in Husk Mit Navn's universe, egg-headed and sausage-limbed, have passed into the common image bank. What springs out in Husk Mit Navn's practice is his ability to combine everydayness, down-to-earthness, humour, poetry, identity and politics in art. The artist's commercial success has in no way blunted the sharpness of his political swipes. Quite the reverse. The broader the appeal, the more there is that needs saying. With antennae well attuned to the world of politics, Husk Mit Navn skewers the hot-button issues of the day, opening our eyes to what is going on around us - and we chuckle, not revealing our ignorance.
The works at U-TURN are in the same vein. Here posters are replaced by life-size
carved wooden figures, set in S�nder Boulevard in Vesterbro. They hang out, sitting on benches - reflecting the gritty reality and multitudinousness that the artist sees in his city. Not far away, a figure scales a building to secure a banner bearing a legend that plays on the Danish name for Copenhagen - K�benhavn: K�b-en-havn [literally: 'buya- harbour'] and throw the poor into the water. Street life and corporate power in direct confrontation. Husk Mit Navn explores at street level the full gamut of Copenhagen's identity, with welfare Denmark, vested interests and social marginalization thrown into stark focus.
-MHB
Lives in Copenhagen
While some artists work primarily within the framework of the art institution, others, like Husk Mit Navn (Remember My Name), target the public realm. In his seven years as a street artist, Husk Mit Navn has crafted an idiom which, for all the mordancy of its take on the political scene, has endeared itself to the public, both domestically and abroad.
It is the story of an artist who started on the street incognito, equipped with a spray can and roll of poster paper, and ended up establishing his name in a wider arena than the art scene. His artistic manifestations include street posters (including self prints), graffiti, T-shirts, drawings and illustrations for a whole range of media - and latterly sculptures too, which give life to the comical figures who are the butts of his criticism.
The naive, strikingly stylised figures in Husk Mit Navn's universe, egg-headed and sausage-limbed, have passed into the common image bank. What springs out in Husk Mit Navn's practice is his ability to combine everydayness, down-to-earthness, humour, poetry, identity and politics in art. The artist's commercial success has in no way blunted the sharpness of his political swipes. Quite the reverse. The broader the appeal, the more there is that needs saying. With antennae well attuned to the world of politics, Husk Mit Navn skewers the hot-button issues of the day, opening our eyes to what is going on around us - and we chuckle, not revealing our ignorance.
The works at U-TURN are in the same vein. Here posters are replaced by life-size
carved wooden figures, set in S�nder Boulevard in Vesterbro. They hang out, sitting on benches - reflecting the gritty reality and multitudinousness that the artist sees in his city. Not far away, a figure scales a building to secure a banner bearing a legend that plays on the Danish name for Copenhagen - K�benhavn: K�b-en-havn [literally: 'buya- harbour'] and throw the poor into the water. Street life and corporate power in direct confrontation. Husk Mit Navn explores at street level the full gamut of Copenhagen's identity, with welfare Denmark, vested interests and social marginalization thrown into stark focus.
-MHB