Lars Schwander – Anders Brinch The Inner Landscape
The Inner Landscape explores the vivid and unruly world of Anders Brinch’s paintings. Moving through grotesque figures, surreal dreamscapes, and moments of absurdity and humor, the book focuses entirely on the works themselves—dense with narrative, texture, and emotional charge. Behind aliens, skeletons, and pool tables lies a deeper reflection on life and death. As Walter Benjamin once wrote: “The skull’s incomparable language: uniting utter lack of expression—the darkness of the eye sockets—with the wildest expression—the grinning rows of teeth.”
Brinch’s practice blends abstraction, figuration, expressionism, kitsch, and conceptual play into something unmistakably his own. His works are intensely personal, shifting between joy, irony, and anguish.
Anders Brinch (*1971) studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has exhibited widely in Denmark and internationally. His work is part of several museum collections, including ARKEN, KUNSTEN, Skive Kunstmuseum, and Randers Kunstmuseum.
Lars Schwander (*1957) is a writer, photographer, and curator. He has previously published books on and with artists such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Yoko Ono, and Viggo Rivad, and has worked with institutions including Brandts, the Royal Library, the Photographic Center, and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
The publication was generously supported by New Carlsberg Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation and Billedhuggeren, professor Gottfred Eickhoff og hustrus, maleren Gerda Eickhoffs Fond.
18 cm × 23 cm
120 pages
Hardcover
Published April 2025
ISBN 97887-85336-01-9
The Inner Landscape explores the vivid and unruly world of Anders Brinch’s paintings. Moving through grotesque figures, surreal dreamscapes, and moments of absurdity and humor, the book focuses entirely on the works themselves—dense with narrative, texture, and emotional charge. Behind aliens, skeletons, and pool tables lies a deeper reflection on life and death. As Walter Benjamin once wrote: “The skull’s incomparable language: uniting utter lack of expression—the darkness of the eye sockets—with the wildest expression—the grinning rows of teeth.”
Brinch’s practice blends abstraction, figuration, expressionism, kitsch, and conceptual play into something unmistakably his own. His works are intensely personal, shifting between joy, irony, and anguish.
Anders Brinch (*1971) studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has exhibited widely in Denmark and internationally. His work is part of several museum collections, including ARKEN, KUNSTEN, Skive Kunstmuseum, and Randers Kunstmuseum.
Lars Schwander (*1957) is a writer, photographer, and curator. He has previously published books on and with artists such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Yoko Ono, and Viggo Rivad, and has worked with institutions including Brandts, the Royal Library, the Photographic Center, and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
The publication was generously supported by New Carlsberg Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation and Billedhuggeren, professor Gottfred Eickhoff og hustrus, maleren Gerda Eickhoffs Fond.
18 cm × 23 cm
120 pages
Hardcover
Published April 2025
ISBN 97887-85336-01-9
The Inner Landscape explores the vivid and unruly world of Anders Brinch’s paintings. Moving through grotesque figures, surreal dreamscapes, and moments of absurdity and humor, the book focuses entirely on the works themselves—dense with narrative, texture, and emotional charge. Behind aliens, skeletons, and pool tables lies a deeper reflection on life and death. As Walter Benjamin once wrote: “The skull’s incomparable language: uniting utter lack of expression—the darkness of the eye sockets—with the wildest expression—the grinning rows of teeth.”
Brinch’s practice blends abstraction, figuration, expressionism, kitsch, and conceptual play into something unmistakably his own. His works are intensely personal, shifting between joy, irony, and anguish.
Anders Brinch (*1971) studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has exhibited widely in Denmark and internationally. His work is part of several museum collections, including ARKEN, KUNSTEN, Skive Kunstmuseum, and Randers Kunstmuseum.
Lars Schwander (*1957) is a writer, photographer, and curator. He has previously published books on and with artists such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Yoko Ono, and Viggo Rivad, and has worked with institutions including Brandts, the Royal Library, the Photographic Center, and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
The publication was generously supported by New Carlsberg Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation and Billedhuggeren, professor Gottfred Eickhoff og hustrus, maleren Gerda Eickhoffs Fond.
18 cm × 23 cm
120 pages
Hardcover
Published April 2025
ISBN 97887-85336-01-9