Jorgen Rosengaard, a Danish world traveler and explorer, attempts to touch the untouchable. His uncommon landscapes of dark, rich acrylic colors, climax in a horizon that's just out of reach, as if the beautiful mountain in the distance is something on the tip of one's tongue, residing on the edge of memory, binding the horizon of the imagination.
The horizon is often at the top of the canvas, far away, with so much land and so little sky. In the foreground is a layered, controlled chaos of color, an intimidating agriculture to be revered and at once questioned. Traveling, to Rosengaard, seems an ultimate, profound expression, and has influenced his work to an unlimited degree. The lens of the artist as explorer or even hunter (as he has referred to himself), is immediate even though the canvas may express a yearning and reaching for what is beyond reach and expression. Sometimes, in his meditative yet urgent paintings, that untouchable horizon seeps into the foreground, and our world is that much richer.
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