The Endless Reality: Interview with Jens Fänge
By Sylvia Tsai
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Swedish artist Jens Fänge creates perspective-twisting environments that tease one’s perceptions. His bold-colored assemblages not only skew the interior spaces and figures he depicts, but also lure in viewers as they try to dissect the artist’s visual play, which fluidly combines materials, techniques and even paintings within paintings. It’s a playful and dynamically engaging experience. In one picture plane, he deftly blends dream-like surrealism and geometric abstraction. Jens Fänge was recently in Hong Kong for the opening of his solo exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, where he featured 17 new panel paintings. ArtAsiaPacific had the chance to interview the 52-year-old, Stockholm-based artist and discuss the starting point for a new series, his assemblage process, and how he sees exhibition design as similar to creating a music album.
