Cutting Through the Surface of Art
The Danish artist Line Busch (b. 1979) graduated from Aarhus Art Academy and today has her artistic base in Copenhagen. Her art has been exhibited at several galleries and museums, such as Galleri Christoffer Egelund as well as Kunsthal Aarhus and West Jutland's Art Museum.
Busch's works challenge the surface of art by playing with the visual concepts of the painting. The canvas is broken up by systematic cuts that take over the room with its tactile three-dimensionality and carefully selected colour play, which also has a degree of unpredictability via the individual details of the cuts made by hand. Her works involve the viewer in an optical illusion that is in constant motion, and thus her works are in perpetual transformation in their interaction with the outside world.
The cut-up canvas can evoke associations with the works of Lucio Fontana, who created waves in the art world with his carefully planned cuts. But unlike the monochrome painted surfaces that Fontana worked with, Busch uses a larger palette of colours and types of cuts, building on the dynamism that this viewer-engaging approach to the canvas creates.