Jens Ulrich Petersen

Jens Ulrich Petersen: The Tragic Comedy of Life.
JUP once said to me, "When painting, I do not make pictures, I tell stories." Indeed, when contemplated, this distinctly appears as the painterly project of the artist because his paintings often seem to be reduced to sheer story telling. The players have fallen in, but the stage is empty, and only the merest props are present. The stories that the paintings are telling us appear wily, even humorous but at the same time serious, even absurd, the tragicomedy of Life being central.
The high or low line of horizon is one of the visually exciting traits of JUP's paintings. On a background dominated by one single colour, a figure will be observed in the - for the artist characteristic - point of intersection at the periphery of the painting. Often his paintings are playing with extreme perspectives, noted, for instance, by the presence in a street of either purposeful or else aimlessly meandering pedestrians seen, for instance, from above, throwing long, dramatic shadows behind them, resulting in beautiful compositions on the canvas.
One recurring theme in JUPs paintings, especially worth pointing out, is loneliness. Loneliness at home, in the throng of the city, at old age. A tou...

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