"For the past few months, the young Danish painter has been working in a borrowed studio in London. Her paintings-monumental nocturnal scenes, brimming with writhing, dancing bodies-stretched to the ceiling of her temporary studio, barely able to fit into the space. "It's becoming a bit cramped in here," said Pade, with characteristic frankness, during a video call a few weeks ago, her canvases visible behind her."
"Pade welcomes the chance to paint on a grand scale. Over the past several years, she has become one of the art world's buzziest young talents, known for her tempestuous scenes crowded with bodies moving through flickering, ambiguous terrains. But for close to a year now, Pade has been living in a semi-nomadic limbo, while her Paris home is undergoing renovations. The availability of a friend's open studio brought her to London, where she set down to work. "I've just been working so much, I haven't really had a chance to see people," she said."
"Three of these new paintings- , -will debut with Thaddeus Ropac at TEFAF New York next week, offering a coveted first glimpse of what Pade has been developing since opening her mark-making solo exhibition, "Nærmere (Closer) , and Opstand (Surge) Søgelys " at Ropac's London outpost, Ely House, last fall."
"Born in 1997, the artist was raised in Odense, Denmark. Enrolling in the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, she earned a BFA in 2021. By 2022, she had opened a solo exhibition at Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen. In 2023, she moved to Paris, seeking a more dynamic contemporary art scene, while still completing an MFA with the Academy in 2024. Her sinuous paintings, filled with crowds of naked female bodies, made in thin washes of color, are tied to a deep legacy of European art history, with Edvard Munch, James Ensor, and Gustav Klimt as particular influences."
A young Danish painter has been working in a borrowed London studio for months, creating monumental nocturnal paintings with writhing, dancing bodies that nearly reach the ceiling. She describes the space as cramped and welcomes the opportunity to paint on a grand scale. After living in a semi-nomadic period while her Paris home is renovated, she used a friend’s open studio in London to continue working and to focus on painting rather than socializing. Three new works will debut with Thaddaeus Ropac at TEFAF New York, offering a first look at developments since her solo exhibitions at Ropac’s London outpost. Her career has advanced quickly through education and early solo shows, and her thin, color-washed figures draw on European art influences including Munch, Ensor, and Klimt.
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