Characteristic of Danish artist Maiken Bent's work is its combination of
retinal abstraction and tactile 'toolishness'. Ancient hunters decorated their knifes, bows and
harpoons. The ornaments on such weapons did not depict things,
they were part of the things. Put in another way, these ornaments did
not install a distance between humans and object. This is rather the
case in Bent's use of abstraction. Though the abstraction, which
accompanies her objects, might recall primitive or archaic culture her
style is closer to modernist abstraction than ornamental decoration.
Via Arcademi.
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