Simon Gorm Andersen

Simon Gorm Andersen was born and raised in Denmark and studied at the Royal Institute of Art 2008-2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2015 he moved to Roskilde, Denmark, where he still lives and works. 

Simon’s artistic practice is tied to the process-oriented work. A work that is made over and over again. The logic of the works is not based on a clear concept, but rather on a series of competing elements that, like the ingredients in a soup, swim around each other and, when working optimally, make the soup more than the sum of the individual ingredients. 

The many extensions/remodels are used to work in a searching, trial and error method that creates a process that works like making a snow globe for a snowman. You roll it around and collect not only snow, but also other physical materials, scraps, plans, failed plans, concepts, rhythms, dogmas, etc. until eventually an internal logic is created and the work falls into place and closes as finished. 

When we look at the physical proximity of the finished work, we are looking at an aesthetic that balances between the delicious, beautifully colorful and the messy and muddy. The construction and the dilapidated, the generous versus the vulgar. A work that, when it seems perfect, has a physical attraction, like the little runners on candles that you just have to break off.