Casper Johansson

A vandal had written Destroy Power, Not People on the electric transmission building. In 1987, when my perception of power was limited to a source of energy I went home from school and started to scribble down my first piece on paper, attaching a yellow circle with the symbol of radioactive radiation. The style of the letters had already been introduced from the stickers inside Danish bubblegum packages. Two decades later, the power remains but my interpretation has changed, so has the style, today I use it as confrontation which intends to open up dialogue, a dyslexic language targeting the alleged veracity using unpressured paint as the core in my artistic expression.

Contradictions, pronounced colouring and sharp outlines, using the urban landscape as a point of departure I want my art to stir up questions with the audience. The range of colours, shapes and style are rooted in graffiti which blends with everyday testimonies of feelings, beliefs and experiences.

The result is a visual debate, a sphere between private and public, assumed truth and the untold, processed and enCAPsulated in the magnetism of art.As art is a necessity and a common good, whether legal or illegal, my work is not strictly limited to canvas bounded...

autodidact

2015, Opdagelser, Group exhibition, Gallery Heike-Arndt,Kettinge, Denmark.

2015, Fresh Legs 2015, Group exhibition, Gallery Heike-Arndt, Berlin, Germany

2015, Transition this!, Solo exhibition, Pansodan Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar

2014, Spring Salon 2014 / Vårsalongen 2014, Group Exhibition, Liljevalchs art gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2013, Mark my Words, Solo Exhibition, Image Ark Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal

2013, A thousand words say more than a picture, Solo Exhibition, Urban Artroom, Göteborg, Sweden

2012, CLAP 1 2 3, Group Exhibition, Dagaung Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar

2012, Rendezvous, South East Asia Urban Art Event, Group Exhibition, Yangon, Myanmar

2011, BETA Version, Solo Exhibition, Pansodan Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar

2011, Elemental, Electronic Music Festival (live painting), Alliance Française, Yangon, Myanmar

2011, Wun Tha Nu, Group Exhibition, DaGaung Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar

2010, Entropia, Solo exhibition, Alliance Française, Yangon, Myanmar

2010, Second Second, Group exhibition, Second Anniversary of Pansodan Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar

2009, enCAPsuled, Solo exhibition, Studio Duelling Banjos, Yangon, Myanmar

2009, Digit.Art Festival, Group exhibition (video), Alliance Française, ...