SCULPTURES

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SCULPTURES

TheMetamorphosis of Multifarious Art.Per Eli:

For Per Eli the ideal about a painting is that you will find somethingnew in it every day. And variability in this otherwise, when finished,frozen medium is just what we find in his works: Impressions ofanimal-like, and/or human figures share the contoures, unite andtransform into something different before our very eyes. The worksof Per Eli are metamorphoses. The work of art is changeable andendless.

Per Eli’s work is primarily abstract in the CoBrA style, and –spirit,with elements of figuration, and his works cause you to think of AsgerJorn. They both possess the force to dominate a wall. They both,however, are individualists in their own right. Fantastic and disquietingcolour- and emotional impressions explode in front of the spectator,demanding his full attention.

The explotion is the visual evidence of the emotions and the creativeurge of the artist. An urge that he for a period put the lid on because

he didn’t feel ready to exhibithis soul. He has been paintinghis whole life, but just acouple of decades ago he letall his motifs loose on thecanvas. An uncontrolled massof fabulous monsters, andbestiality came alive, and nowa countless number of eyes arestaring at us from the canvas.In Per Eli’s works you feel adynamic commmotion causedby bold diagonals, contrasting

and aggressive collisions of colours and emotions, like when you sensemelancholy confronted by anger.

The world that Per Eli is introducing us to consists of one conglomerateof bodies in which the individual amalgamates with part of the hybrid.You are surrounded and embraced by the world and by each other. Thesad tear of one figure is the greedy tooth of another; the eye of oneshape is the nipple of another. The paintings hold a formal ambiguityresulting in what one minute ago seemed to be the contour of a profilehas now turned into a frontal. It endows the dynamic with an overridingbalance, harmony in the disharmony, if you will, that the multitude ofcreatures constitute a unified whole. They are part of the livingorganism formed by what seems to be its own inner primitive force.

Per Eli is working fundamentally with his most basic and intuitiveemotions, but also with all that he himself is not, but would like to getinto contact with. Thus his masculine, respectively feminine, sidesreveal themselves by the either sharp contours or delicate lines thatrender the paintings their own cachet. They are all characteristic withan enormous variation from work to work.

“I am everything, but without you I am nothing.” Such is one of PerEli’s mantras. It underlines the importance of discourse, the dialoguebetween one’s self and one’s work during the process of creation inwhich the motif is graduallyexpressing itself to him; thediscourse between work andspectator, the discourseduring which the work ispotentially revealing itselfinter spectatores. True, apainting may effectivelyproject a sentiment onto theviewer, but you may arguethat the sentiments of thespectator may in reverse betransferred onto the

painting, thus rendering it a renewed emotional hue day by day. Theartist may well have an idea about his motif before putting brush tocanvas, but the work sometimes demands to go down another lane thanoriginally planned. To Per Eli it is essential that his spirit is involvedin the process of painting. The work must be neither too brooding, nortoo much craftmanlike. The creation of the work is happening duringthe actual painting process, that is, with his heart, not his head. For himit is about letting go. About avoiding to be chained, so to speak, to acomposition, yet taking the direction that Inspiration urges him to. Forfrom the resulting pleasure and spontaneity innovation is spurred.Being prone to suffer from horror vacui Per Eli will not leave an emptycanvas well alone. This trait is the reason for his large productivity.

The story of Per Eli does not end with painting. Musician, poet,sculpturer, are other titles he can call himself. All of it, however, fusestogether to the title of Multifarious Artist, since each medium infringeson each other. Therefore Per Eli likes to let his various works presentthemselves together, inspiring each other, and originating from eachother. This is illustrated by various book publications of his, in whichpoetry is confronted by painting, bronze sculpture by a figure in apainting which, again, may have given inspiration to the form of thesculpture. So, not solely within a painting a figure may be transformed.Sometimes an urge of the artist makes it come alive in another mediumoutside the canvas. Akin to that the strokes of the brush will add a sortof musicality to a painting, thus avoiding the static state.

Therefore abstraction fits the artist’s temperament and musicality sowell.

Artist’s homepage: www.pereli.dk

Translator: Niels Kock

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