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Martin Bigum
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Martin Bigum is a Danish painter, poet, writer, and video artist. Born in Copenhagen in 1966. He is best known today for his paintings. During the 1980s he worked as comic artist for the Danish version of Mad Magazine. Bigum's work is focused on uniting High Art and Low Art in comic-style paintings and video installations. Unlike former pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, his aim is not to show the emptiness of pop culture, but rather its fullness. His ambition is to create his own mythology through art. Works Heartland, 1990-1991 Bigum's first exhibition Heartland showed a new artist, trying out different techniques, addressing questions to contemporary art. Still, the two paintings in comic art style First Sight 1 and First Sight 2 gave an impression of what he was about to become. Each of these two pictures presents a child thrown into a dream of colours, coping with this situation as well as they can. Maybe they are psychological self-portraits of the artist himself. Radical Myth, 1992-1993 Literary Body, 1994-1995 Millennium, 1995-1996 The Homecoming, 1997-2002 Chr. IV: Barn og Konge, 2003-2004 The Face of God 2002-2006 
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