Erik Parker: Adapt at Faurschou CPH. Installationsview

Ten years ago the American based painter, Erik Parker, had his international breakthrough with his unmistakable painting style, which he has faithfully developed and refined during the following decade. Taking his cue mainly from pop art and graffiti, his paintings is characterised by a swirl of bright colour, arabesque forms, and psychedelic details that infuses them with complexity and a hurricane like energy.
In Erik Parkers' new works currently on show at Faurschou CPH, he has turned his attention to human physiognomies, that he treats in his usual subversive and iconoclastic fashion using a diversity of references to Rococo, acid-rock posters, Surrealism, animation and the comic strips. The grotesque figures of this humorous, but somewhat scary universe lingers somewhere between man and machine with their goggle eyes and dissolved, skinless bodies, that reveals that their inside is made up of skulls and bones as well as something that looks like mechanical components. With equal right Erik Parkers new works can both be interpreted as an ironic comment on recent biotechnological research on the mapping of genes, cloning, and transplants between humans and animals, but also as powerful expressions of emotions and states of mind.

Erik Parker (b. 1968) was originally born in Stuttgart, Germany, but lives and works in New York. He is educated at University of Texas at Austin and at SUNY Purchase in New York. He has had several shows at both galleries and art institutions all over the world, and in Denmark he is represented by Faurschou CPH.

29. januar - 10. april 2010

St. Strandstræde 21, 1255 København K.

web site:www.faurschou.com

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