Education
He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1985-1992) and also in Cairo.
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Martin Andersen
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Andersen lives and works in Copenhagen. Since 2009, he has been a professor at the Academy"s department of sculpture. His installations draw on a variety of techniques and materials including textiles, creations on paper, video, sound and light as well as scaffolding, plants and polyester.
They attract the viewer, providing a new perspective of familiar objects.
His Freud"s Gashgai (2011) in Statens Museum for Kunst is inspired by the rug on Sigmund Freud"s couch which is now presented as a sculpted polyester relief. Like his other works, there is a relationship between the two-dimensional (the rug) and the three-dimensional (when spread over the couch) as well as between image and object.
Other notable installations include Kingdom of dirt, a complex set of symmetric patterns on a concrete floor mosaic, and More give me more give me more — dette dit dørtrin, a huge upright purple carpet hanging on a steel frame representing a contemporary paraphrase of the Ardabil Carpet. lieutenant was on the basis of these pieces that he was awarded the Thorvaldsen Meda
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Awards
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Thorvaldsen Medal; Eckersberg Medal In 2004, Andersen was awarded the Eckersberg Medal and, in 2014, the Thorvaldsen Medal.
The Eckersberg Medal (originally the Akademiets Aarsmedaille or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.; The Thorvaldsen Medal is awarded annually with few exceptions to a varying number of recipients by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and is its highest distinction within the visual arts.The Eckersberg Medal (originally the Akademiets Aarsmedaille or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.; The Thorvaldsen Medal is awarded annually with few exceptions to a varying number of recipients by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and is its highest distinction within the visual arts.