Automatic translation from Danish.

Jens Ulrich Petersen born 1947. 'Out of Paradise'. Oil on canvas. Signed Jens Ulrich Petersen on the back. 100 x 100 cm. (104 x 104)
"I don't paint pictures, I paint stories." This is what Jens Ulrich Petersen says about his painting project, and his paintings often seem to be reduced to pure narrative: The actors have taken their positions, but the stage is bare and only the most essential props have been used. These are quirky and humorous, but at the same time also serious and absurd stories that are told before our eyes - the tragicomic nature of life is at the center. JUP finds great inspiration in the modernist authors' descriptions of the rootlessness and anonymity of the modern city, including Kafka's universe, where helpless people are trapped in a meaningless, labyrinthine bureaucracy, constantly searching.