Cityscape Fragments

Nina Sten-Knudsen

With her overwhelmingly large paintings, Nina Sten-Knudsen have turned her gaze toward a space of reflection tinged by an immense silence, where she enlists the aid of visual art references in her exploration of painting's present possibilities. Although Nina Sten-Knudsen consciously draws from the legacy of art history's great painters: da Vinci, Rembrandt, Degas and Vermeer, the paintings she creates are far from traditional paintings. Nina Sten-Knudsen revitalise questions about space, perspective, figuration and approaches taken as given in painting, before the 20th Century did away with the figurative.