Hans Jorgensen

Graduated from Fine Arts from Copenhagen Denmark in 1976. Devotes himself to painting and spent several years in Morocco and Spain where he produced numerous exhibitions. Settled permanently in France in 1990, he abandoned painting and turned to sculpture. Hans Jorgensen's sculptures are “charged” works. They summon the archaic powers that silently work the energies of the universe. They take hold of the hidden soul of wood and of the original tree which lives, breathes, and acts. The slender tree stretches out its broken arms towards the steps of infinity, and towards men. Hans Jorgensen combines these forces, he takes hold of the source of the vitality of this animated material. And the sculptor works hard on this flesh, timeless, bony and fragile. A feverish, medieval mystic lurks. She transforms each work into a demanding, gripping and spellbinding formal fire. It looks like the wood-material burnt from the inside by a sacrificial fire. Jorgensen's art, far from the seductions of modernity, is a ritual of appearance, against all disappearances. He strikes, by implacable face to face, the terrifying singularity of the archaic feeling. In its brutal immediacy, in its physiology of visual impact, it tears itself away from aesthetic heaviness as the life of the work, fused with cruelties, tears itself away from vital heaviness. Thus lives the great creation. - Christian Noorbergen, Art critic