Martin Brandt Hansen, X-RAY TARGETS (Installation view). Andersen’s, 2022. Photo: Malle Madsen.
Press release, November 2022
Andersen´s is delighted to announce the first solo show in the gallery by Martin Brandt Hansen.
Martin Brandt Hansen works primarily in sculpture and installation, and with a significant style that stems from his Greenlandic origin, as it can be seen in his interpretation on the iconic Tupilak figure. Traditionally, the Tupilak is a figure carved in narwhal or walrus tusk, wood or caribou antler made by Greenlanders, often as a souvenir to the white man, to visualize the stories about their spirits. In Martin Brandt Hansen works he adds the western influence from his upbringing in the suburbs of Nuuk, as Disney/cartoon-like figures in his ceramic Tupilak works. These are often installed aside imported merchandise and other items in either a vitrine or on a shelve, as to create his own narrative.
Martin Brandt Hansen (b. 1990) has a Master's degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Kind regards and looking forward to see you.
Opening: Thurday the 3rd of November, 17-21.
Exhibition period: November 3 - December 3, 2022.
Opening hours: Wed-fri: 10-17, sat: 11-15.
Martin Brandt Hansen, X-RAY TARGETS (Installation view). Andersen’s, 2022. Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, X-RAY TARGETS (Installation view). Andersen’s, 2022. Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Kabinet 3905.9 / Protect/Attack, 2022 (Bronze/brass cast of tupilaks, models of american Airforce SB-17 planes, wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Kabinet 3905.7 / Roots, 2022 (Soap stone figure carved by Aron Berthelsen, first ceramic stoneware sculpture by Martin Brandt Hansen, boxing gloves, wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Kabinet 3905.8 / . Dark Ivory, 2022 (Fimo clay, pork bones on seal skin, packages of the Greenlandic coffee brand Araba Kaffi, wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, X-RAY TARGETS (Installation view). Andersen’s, 2022. Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Kabinet 3905.3 / Ultima Thule, 2022 (Ice cube bag packages, model of snow mobile, plastic stand, crucifix, plastic model of boat, wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Kabinet 3905.6 / Grown Not Made, 2022 (Seal skin, Heinz' ketchup bottles, mask of rubber, metal and plastic, plastic castle, Greenlandic Prince cigarette package, wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Kabinet 3905.2 / New Adventures, 2022 (Bottles of Greenlandic water from Nuuk Imeq, model of cruise ship, wax, inkjet on coffee filter, wood; (remake of a model kayak), wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, X-RAY TARGETS (Installation view). Andersen’s, 2022. Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Montre 004. Game Skinner, 2022 (Erthenware, skin knife, stoneware, Sony Playstation controller, filleting gloves, wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Kabinet 3905.1 / Mike Thomsen's Leather West, 2022 (Leather west, 9 mm bullets, porcelain replica of carving from the Dorset paleo Inuit culture, wax, Model of a pickup truck, wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.
Martin Brandt Hansen, Kabinet 3905.5 / Cirkle, 2022 (Model of Air Greenland Airbus H155, Fimo clay, aluminium bat, model of dumper, wooden shelf & plexi glass frame). Photo: Malle Madsen.