THE EXHIBITION
In his solo exhibition 'Under a Marquee Moon', the Danish visual artist Lasse Thorst transforms albert contemporary into an atmospheric space of transformation, exploration, and transcendence.

Here you will experience Thorst's colorful and figurative paintings and an expansion of the artist's use of mediums in the form of two wooden sculptures.

In addition, Thorst's paintings possess a new and distinctive nocturnal characteristic: a term used within the world of music and art to describe works containing nightly light and color combinations, scenarios, and moods.

The exhibition titled 'Under a Marquee Moon' references the album 'Marquee Moon' by the American rock group Television from 1977, which had a fundamental impact on the punk-new-wave movement, and a great personal significance for the artist.

In this way, the artist unites the worlds of music and visual art – and thus his musical past and present visual artistic contemporaries.

In 'Under a Marquee Moon', the artist conjoins the album's themes and atmospheres with his visual works, which both explore themes of transformation, exploration, and transcendence through imagery in pastoral and nocturnal modes.

For the night is at once blurry and dazzling; a period of diffuseness and heightened awareness. A recurring duality in Thorst's visual language, where the portrayed figures often are depicted brilliantly colored but nevertheless possess a distinctive masked and mysterious peculiarity.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lasse Thorst lives and works in Aalborg. His artistic style is colorful, expressionistic, and figurative. As a Nordic painter, he's particularly interested in the classical landscape but often used as a stage for portrayed characters, which are placed in these – for them – unfamiliar landscape scenarios. They're personal and freely painted but often inspired by old photos and somehow relate to the artist's surroundings.

Here, the people portrayed reveal in one way or another a particular time or period, where the landscape seems almost timeless.

This creates both 'old' and 'new', traditional and modern paintings.

As a matter of fact, Thorst works more like an abstract painter, where he does not use sketches but tests his ideas directly on the canvas. He works in quick sessions - usually wet on wet - with oil on canvas.