Discovering the works of Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen is like entering an utopian fairy-tale-like dream filled with whimsical and humorous figures that come together in a fantasy world full of colour and mixed materials. The works are often precisely detailed and part of an associative universe. The figures are presented in a simple narration with an at once political and at the same time satiric twist.
In his works, which span from a wide range of media from paper-works to video installations, you see clear references to antiquity, but also to Dutch and Italian renaissance with artists such as Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Furthermore similarities to the Danish artists Arne Ungermann and Bjørn Wiinblad can be traced.
