While Frank Fischer and Anne Torpe occupy the main gallery and the HAG office respectively, Anders Brinch takes on the project room. The exhibition, which the artist has named “Radiant Love”, consists of a series of 12 new paintings and a sculpture.

The paintings in “Radiant Love” are figurative and narrative, evoking connotations to various painterly traditions such as Expressionism, Surrealism, and Symbolism. In addition to these art historical references, the imaginative and the fantastical, the motifs also stem from the artist's personal and lived experiences, where levels of emotional pain to uninhibited joy can be traced in many of the works.

‘Radiant Love’ serves as a visual document of a mental landscape, presenting works revolving around scenes from both the small and grand aspects of human life, where the trivial rituals of the everyday merge with the magnificent and the cosmic.

In addition to his paintings, Brinch has created a sculpture that bears the title of the exhibition. The sculpture is composed of wood, plaster, expansion foam, textile, paint, and glass glitter. It symbolizes the merging of two souls in the infinite universe and can be seen as a manifesto of love. 

On the occasion of the exhibition, Brinch reflects on his artistic practice: 

"For more than two decades, I have focused mainly on figurative painting: quirky, poetic, small and large narratives that border on the kitschy and dreamy, but also images that are not evoked by a need for closed and pre-packaged meanings, but more as a kind of subconscious vision manifested in the painting process itself. Technically, it's often been oil and mixed materials on canvas. The shades of color move with great texture from the dark and dirty to the bright and clear, and sometimes various tricks are used, such as adding glitter to the paint, reminiscent of the peacock's seductive plumage. My paintings tend to draw on references in the history of painting, literature, and film, and with my roots in the Nordic countries, I am constantly drawn to what is far removed from my own origins, a longing for something else in the form of romantic, utopian dreams, and boundless freedom. However, there's a silver lining, and the Nordic and Dionysian culture lurk between the palm leaves and the sunrises."

”Radiant Love" opens November 29 and will be on view through December 21 in the HAG project room.