White Monochrome Hedge, 2009.
The Hedge Paintings is an ongoing series of paintings (2009-2023) where a plastic hedge is the canvas.
In Denmark, a common way of living is in a house surrounded by a hedge. A hedge represents both the good, quiet life behind the hedge in suburbia and, at the same time, frustration and a lack of freedom for some people. In Danish, privet-fascism is a well-known term referring to the most common hedge plant, the privet, and is a critique of the often conservative and petty-bourgeois values life behind the privet hedge represents.
The Monochrome Hedge paintings connect two major directions in painting, the monochrome and landscape painting. Both ways of painting have a long history and very different ideas about painting.
The Monochrome Hedge paintings are directly related to Yves Klein’s and Piero Manzoni’s monochrome paintings from the late 1950s—1960s and aim to add new perspectives to both monochrome and landscape paintings.