Lars Tygesen – Flowers

Galerie Mikael Andersen is delighted to welcome Lars Tygesen back

to the gallery with his new solo exhibition Flowers, opening Thursday

November 20, 17:00-19:00.

In Flowers, Tygesen revisits one of painting’s most classical subjects

— the bouquet — and transforms it into a contemporary meditation

on image, perception and decay. Each painting begins with a paper

collage, assembled as a loose framework and later translated into

paint. These are not naturalistic depictions, but points of departure for

a painterly exploration in which control and coincidence continuously

intertwine.

The paintings present vases and floral arrangements that seem to hover

between construction and collapse. Fields of colour are interrupted by drips

and transparent overlays that alternately construct and deconstruct the

image. The compositions are precise yet porous; they appear both deliberate

and fleeting, as if painted at the moment before disappearance.

Tygesen’s palette is characteristically luminous — pastel pinks, faded violets,

mint greens and warm ochres unfold across the surface like afterimages of

something once natural, now remembered through screens, filters and

memory. What we encounter is not nature itself, but its echo.

While Flowers draws on the still life tradition, it also questions it. The genre,

historically associated with abundance and vitality, becomes here a reflection

on transience. The flowers do not bloom; they dissolve. The paintings are

suspended in a perpetual in-between state — between gesture and

structure, abstraction and figuration, becoming and vanishing.

In Tygesen’s hands, the still life turns into a quiet drama about painting itself:

its endurance, its fragility, and its insistence on beauty even as it

fades. Flowers captures that paradox — the eternal life of something that is

always on the verge of disappearing.

For more information on the exhibition and for press photographs please

contact the gallery on tel. 33 33 05 12 or email: cph@mikaelandersen.com.

The exhibition ends January 3, 2026. Daily opening hours: Tuesday–Friday

12–18, Saturday 11–15.

Sincerely,

Galerie Mikael Andersen