Anne Torpe

Anne Torpe (born in Denmark, 1981) has a masters degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, which she graduated from in 2009. During her studies... Read More

Anne Torpe (born in Denmark, 1981) has a masters degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, which she graduated from in 2009. During her studies she spent a year in the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Münich, where Torpe worked with German artist Günther Förg. Her work presents figures found in photos, drawings, souvenirs etc., taken out of their given context and reiterated into a new setting. The artist lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Style 

Torpe's style is figurative and displays a collage of colors and lines engaging with the subject(s) in the portrayed imagery. Her inspiration comes from everyday settings and scenarios, where ambiguous characters morph together with their surroundings in a cubistic milieu. Creating a modernist idiom, where her paintings become a reflection of the medium of painting itself, her work merges a plethora of parallel worlds into one canvas. There often appears quite literal and concrete divisions in her works, as a linear disruption of the motif by a change of color or another object.

Medium

She often works with oil painting and lithography, which you can read more about here. You can also browse all other artists here.