Adam Saks

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Adam Saks (born 1974 in Copenhagen) is a Danish painter who lives and works in Berlin.

Saks belongs to the young generation of artists who have discovered the countless astonishing possibilities presented by painting and graphic art, and who paint pictures that everyone can relate to. As applies to many of his contemporary colleagues both in Denmark and abroad, his art is in a “postmedial” phase, where painting has displaced the new media. However, in no way does Saks turn the clock back to the state of innocence of abstract expressive painting, where the artist simply paints on the basis of feeling and intuition; on the contrary, he integrates his experiences from installation art, video art and computer art on the surface while inviting the surrounding world inside and disrespectfully making use of mass-media images, including children’s book illustrations, tattooing and the narrative universes of the strip cartoon.

He is inspired by the French Foreign Legion with its colonial history, solitude and aggression. In his paperworks Adam Saks draws his inspiration from Russian criminal tattoos, which emerges as traces of a human presence and is combined with fragments of landscapes, interiors and stories from exotic regions.