Jan Esmann

Born 1960, Denmark. Raised in Bury, England. Moved to Copenhagen 1967 and has lived there since.

"Contemporary art, especially painting, has turned towards a renewed interest in the craft of figurative art. Contemporary art is of course no longer modernist art, but postmodernist art, and as such a renewed interest in the lost craft of figurative painting, that modernism killed off, is only natural, though it is also a very elitist trend within otherwise selfconceited postmodernism. So we are happy to consider our selves anti-postmodernists. As contemporary anti-postmodern artists we have to reinvent old painting skills in a new form of figure painting. Only this way can we move art beyond the pseudo-intellectual amateurisms of postmodernism."
Jan Esmann 2005-06.

Self-taught artist... Well in order to learn craft I studied at the Department of Conservation at the Copenhagen Royal Academy of Arts 1987-1990.

Past Shows:
2006 Polka-Dot, An Art Gallery, Copenhagen
Gallerihuset, Copenhagen

2005 Gallerihuset, Copenhagen

2004 Gallerihuset, Copenhagen

2003 The More Gallery, USA.
Gallerihuset, Copenhagen.

2002 The More Gallery. USA. (twice)

2001 Gallerihuset, Copenhagen
Artfair: Art Copenhagen (Kunstmessen i Forum)
Artfair: Kunstmessen Herning
10 World Artists at Noosagallery, Australia - Chosen to represent Denmark

2000 Gallerihuset, Copenhagen
Gallerie 108, Rosklide
Artfair: Art Copenhagen (Kunstmessen i Forum)
Artfair: Kunstmessen Herning
Memorial Exhibition for Palle Nielsen

1999
Ikon 2000, Kunstnernes Hus, rhus
Alice Lookingglass Gallery, New York
Artfair: Art Copenhagen (Kunstmessen i Forum)
Lejnieks Fine Art, California

1998 Gallerihuset, Copenhagen..
Artfair: Kunstmessen Herning
Alice Lookingglass Gallery, New York
Lejnieks Fine Art, California

1994 Gallerie Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund

1993 Galleri Kobolt. Copenhagen.

1992 Charlottenborgs ForrsudstillingRead more