Location: Denmark
I was born 1967 in Soenderborg near to the border between Germany and Denmark with a German father and a Danish mother. As a teenager I started to study drawing and to work in my daddy`s Architect company, making reproductions of the architect`s drawings. Although I thought that I one day might become an architect as well, I ended up with a bachelor grade as a teacher in art and religion, but did all the same work full time as a visual artist since 1989.
TOP LIST OF EXHIBITIONS:
2003: Solo exhibition in the Galleria del Centro Cultural De La Academia de Bellas Artes, Lima Peru.
2007: Palm Art Award, Leipzig, Germany.
2009: World Art Expo, Las Vegas.
2010: The ANIMA AWARD EXPO, Fredericia, Denmark.
2012: The ”KE” for selected artists, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2015: New York Art Expo - Rising Artist.
2015:The X International Biennale of Florence.
2016: Visio Visionari at Museo Internationale Italia Arte - Torino
Homepage: www.henriksaar.dk
My life is loaded with drama, chaos, accidents, disease, survival, love, adventurous trips and religious miracles. Now Look at my artworks: Layer on layer like experience on experience.
I am creating my life story in a cryptic art language. Some of it contains well known symbols, some of are self invented figurative or abstract elements. It does not really matter whether it is abstract or figurative.
The strange phenomenon in my case is, that my visual expression comes before things actually happen in my external reality. I do never paint or draw on memories. My vision is to express, what I do not yet understand, but know is real. What you understand, is up to you, and I`m happy not to dictate you, what to think.
I use only the same three primary oil-colors and black and white. During the past 10 years I have been working my new style: Thick texture and many transparent layer in pure colors on top of the texture is now typical for me. I mix my colors additive in transparency. This gives my paintings a very deep glow. During the process I scrape of a bit of the transparent paint with a scalpel to highlight the details of the texture.
Acrylic and oil on canvas 120 x 85 cm. 2015
Acrylic and oil on canvas 120 x 85 cm. 2015
Oil on canvas 75 x 121 cm. 2015
Oil on canvas 75 x 121 cm. 2015
Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm. 2015
Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm. 2015
Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm. 2015
Acrylic on canvas 70 x 60 cm. 2014
Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm. 2014
Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm. 2014
Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm 2014
Acrylic and oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm. 2016
Oil on wood 50 x 40 cm.
Oil on wood 50 x 40 cm.
Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm.
Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm.
Oil on wood 120 x 100 cm.
Oil on canvas 70 x 60 cm.
Oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm.
Acrylic on canvas 39 x 29 cm.