Kasper Støvring
Odd Nerdrum’s paintings show man embedded in an order he has not created. Instead of staging the sovereignty of the liberal individual, he reveals that humans confront something older and more inscrutable than themselves: earth, sky, time, guilt, fate, and tragedy. Nerdrum paints what our age prefers to explain away. Truth appears as sudden revelations — pictorial shocks that cannot be explained, only endured.