- Kunsthal Charlottenborg
This ambitious publication invites every one – for the first time ever – to experience Tovborg’s complete works up till now. The large format offers 700 pages of fascinating works, that are all portals to explore Tovborg’s wondrous world.Alexander Tovborg (born in 1983 in Copenhagen) is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe.
Tovborg has a wide range of prominent national and international solo and group exhibitions to his name. He has been nominated for the Carnegie Art Award and is represented in several significant international galleries, including Blum and Poe in the US, and in Denmark by Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
Alexander Tovborg’s expressions is abstract with references to Oriental decorative art and medieval art. Across various forms of expression and themes, he creates recognizable motifs with religious, mythological, or historical content.
By examining narratives from the past, Tovborg mirrors the current political and social situation. He recontextualizes classic archetypes and raises questions that lead to new selfawareness. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance, conventional thinking is challenged, and entrenched beliefs are questioned. It is through this multidisci plinary repertoire that Tovborg’s work has resonated both at home and abroad.
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