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Magnus Frederik Clausen, Painting as Time Goes By
The first time you remove the training wheels from your bike, the first walk to school unaccompanied, the first time driving a car, the first kiss, the first loss of a loved one—these are all blind dates with fate. No one knows when they will arrive, but at some point, they do. A random moment pinned to the timeline of life acquires new significance, marking an anniversary nobody anticipated–but here it is, as long as you remember it well.
Between 2020 and 2021, Magnus Frederik Clausen taught his oldest son how to read the time on the clock. Thanks to this somewhat accidental, somewhat deliberate circumstance of parenting, the artist began reflecting on the process of translating and oscillating between one system of codes and another. More precisely, Clausen started to swing from an analog system to a digital one and the other way around, developing a series of paintings depicting clocks, which he has kept...More
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Magnus Frederik Clausen, Painting as Time Goes By
The first time you remove the training wheels from your bike, the first walk to school unaccompanied, the first time driving a car, the first kiss, the first loss of a loved one—these are all blind dates with fate. No one knows when they will arrive, but at some point, they do. A random moment pinned to the timeline of life acquires new significance, marking an anniversary nobody anticipated–but here it is, as long as you remember it well.
Between 2020 and 2021, Magnus Frederik Clausen taught his oldest son how to read the time on the clock. Thanks to this somewhat accidental, somewhat deliberate circumstance of parenting, the artist began reflecting on the process of translating and oscillating between one system of codes and another. More precisely, Clausen started to swing from an analog system to a digital one and the other way around, developing a series of paintings depicting clocks, which he has kept...More
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