Exhibition: Humans & Creatures – Henrik Godsk

Across Henrik Godsk's works, which fuse folkloric and high art, he utilises the portraits and creatures that form his subjects as vessels for his exploration of colour and form. In his first solo exhibition with Vigo, the artist's androgenous and striking forms are directly reminiscent of the accentuated designs of fairground rides, a nod to Godsk's upbringing in the world of the Danish funfair.

The formal components of the artwork are inseparable from the artist's time spent as a child painting the panels and façades during renovations of the rides. At 23, he left fairground life to become an artist. The controlled brushwork, geometric lines, flat surfaces, and tight compositions of the artist's cubistic portraits act as a conduit for his personal exploration of classically modernist forms. By playing with artistic conventions of the past, Godsk offers a refreshing take on portraiture through the lens of his cultural upbringing and love of twentieth-century modernism.