Soren Thielemann

Soren Thielemann is a conceptual draftsman, collage artist, and painter who has exhibited in the United States as well as internationally in Denmark and Thailand. Notable exhibitions include Studio 88 in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Las Laguna Gallery and Richmond Art Center in California, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, and Gallery Liisberg in Hundested, Denmark. Soren describes his work as "deeply rooted in personal experiences and emotions, often emerging from quiet, intimate moments which leave lasting impressions”. He also states working with paper leads to “embracing mistakes, adapting, and allowing accidents to shape the final piece. In a sense, I kinda feel like a sculptor. A sculptor working with marble knows once a piece is cut away, it’s gone forever — there’s no way to put it back. Ink on paper shares that same unforgiving honesty. Every decision matters. The process becomes a balance of control and surrender, where imperfection often leads to unexpected beauty”.

The recent works by Soren Thielemann contain drawings which incorporate photographic collage superimposed within his drafted compositions. In these particular pieces and within such a realm, animals and fauna are superimposed on designed, abstract structures. Some of the works may come across as complimentary as he mirrors images against each other in commendatory similarity, such as contrasting different animals or plants. Perhaps the subjects are reflecting a sort of spirit of themselves on the opposite side of the paper, such as an elk opposite a lobster, a chicken with an owl, or a mango tree fixed on top of dragonfruit.

Varying between drawing, collage assemblage, to painting, Soren Thielemann captures both figurative as well as organic design structures. He displays motifs which may seem both ambiguous and / or absurd. In his paintings, figures are heavily stylized, interacting within interiors which appear like planes of abstractions while his abstracted drawings seem to disassemble subject matter into conceptual manners of form. The use of negative space in the drawings defines crucial elements such as creating a sense of emptiness and emotional impulses against the centralized, high contrast, and often dark compositions. 

Angel Demon (pictured above) depicts what appears to be a mango or cantaloupe tree superimposed on top of a dragonfruit. In the distance, loose, stylized drawings of birds swarm around the mango tree while octupi-like limbs extend from the dragonfruit. The color of the mango tree’s bark and limbs are dyed with hot yellow and magenta colors to compliment the dragonfruit below. Angel Demon is a complex piece which portrays how to use various elements to show attributes of unification between two separate entities.

Soren Thielemann represents a dynamic mode of art which incorporates stylized objects and beings, intricate mirror-like design principles as well as an integration of methods such as fusing photography with drawing. His straight ink drawings in black and white have a pure Rorschach test aesthetic about them while his paintings reveal the similar lucid colors and angular formations found in his new work. Soren Thielemann uses angular distortion and an alteration of perspective to express forms and concepts steeped in his own version of contemporary expressive aesthetics. 

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