Troels Worsel
Experimentation and intuitivity have long been at the center of Troels Wörsel’s self-taught art practice, however as his body of work has consistently been characterized as constructivist and formalist, his recent works have been focused on the representation of visual perception. Early in his career Wörsel was captured by the emerging Pop and Conceptual Art movements, inducing his adoption of the associated styles as a way to explore semantic and philosophical issues such as the limitation of painting as a medium, the continuous conversation of contemporary art with art history, and the relationship between space and time. As his work developed he became interested in the purely painterly, omitting any meaning behind the paintings presented. This work was hinged on his own process which was dedicated to highlighting the ability to generate illusions. Wörsel shares that the subject of these illusionistic paintings is “flatness,” which is drawn from the modernist dialogue on absolute flatness that further resulted in cubic and abstract expressions.
Beginning his career in 1970 Wörsel has displayed work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Recently he has been highlighted in solo exhibitions at Galleri Riis in Oslo, the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark, Galleri …
Experimentation and intuitivity have long been at the center of Troels Wörsel’s self-taught art practice, however as his body of work has consistently been characterized as constructivist and formalist, his recent works have been focused on the representation of visual perception. Early in his career Wörsel was captured by the emerging Pop and Conceptual Art movements, inducing his adoption of the associated styles as a way to explore semantic and philosophical issues such as the limitation of painting as a medium, the continuous conversation of contemporary art with art history, and the relationship between space and time. As his work developed he became interested in the purely painterly, omitting any meaning behind the paintings presented. This work was hinged on his own process which was dedicated to highlighting the ability to generate illusions. Wörsel shares that the subject of these illusionistic paintings is “flatness,” which is drawn from the modernist dialogue on absolute flatness that further resulted in cubic and abstract expressions.
Beginning his career in 1970 Wörsel has displayed work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Recently he has been highlighted in solo exhibitions at Galleri Riis in Oslo, the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark, Galleri Susanne Ottesen in Copenhagen, Tønder Kunstmuseum in Tønder, Denmark, Galerie Fred Jahn in Münich, Benveniste Contemporary in Madrid, and Art Statements Gallery in Hong Kong. Additionally his work has been featured in group exhibitions at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänattä, Finland, Kunst Gruppe in Cologne, Germany, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, and CHART art fair in Copenhagen. Wörsel’s paintings can be found in various public collections including the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark, Malmö Konstmuseum in Malmö, Sweden, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York Public Library, and Washington Museum of Art.
National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
FRAC Auvergne, France
