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Adam Saks (born 1974 in Copenhagen) is a Danish painter. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. == Biography == Adam Saks studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen from 1993–1999. In 1996–1997 he studied under Professor Bernd Koberling at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Northern and Mediterranean influences flow together in Adam Saks' paintings and paperworks. He lets himself drift through travel narratives; directly into the horror of plundering, pillaging and colonialism with its solitude and aggression (e.g. the French Foreign Legion); through compendiums of heraldry and emblemata; and out of cheap comics or tattoo magazines – seafarer's or criminal tattoos as traces of human presence – in order to salvage strangely familiar stretches of land and valuable strips of seacoast; wild animals and grotesque chimeras; serpentine blazonry and shredded script in the form of invocations or protective spells. In 2011 and 2012 Adam Saks has devoted himself extensively to examining the relationship between human beings and nature, or the human figure as an integral part of the organic cycle of life: in the same way that nature is witness to a perpetual becoming and passing, figures, foliage, symbols or text elements appear upon the canvas only to be dissolved into pure colour in the very next blink of the eye. Adam Saks has created several artist books with Schaefer Grafisk Vaerksted, Copenhagen. Among them ''Deep Drawings'' (2004), ''Raid'' (2004) and ''Fill Your Hands'' (2007) are made in the monochrome technique of direct transfer in a limited edition of 250 copies each. ''Elephant Island'' (2009) is a faksimile of a large ink drawing which – like James Joyce's ulyssian stream of consciousness – waves and weaves itself as well as a massive array of motifal flotsam throughout the whole 29,7 × 630 cm long span of the book rawly bound as Japanese paperback. Adam Saks has had numerous solo exhibitions, e.g., Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum (Denmark, 2003), Århus Kunstbygning, Center of Contemporary Art (Denmark, 2007), Lieu D´art Contemporain in Narbonne (France, 2008), the Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (Sweden, 2009), the ARoS – Aarhus Kunstmuseum (Denmark, 2010) and the Städtische Galerie Offenburg (Germany, 2012). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Saks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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