Danish Arts Foundation / 3 - year work grants 2010
Ane Lykke was awarded the three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation in 2010. Upon awarding the grant, the Danish Arts Foundation issued a statement which included the following:
Ane Lykke approaches her subject material with great care and thought. Usually, this subject material consist of art for the public space, with all that this entails in terms of interpretations of the genus loci of the given sites. She has a special fondness for those aspects of buildings that usually go unnoticed: a passage, a corner, an end wall; places that are not usually regarded as anything much in their own right. When used as a canvas or vehicle for Ane Lykke’s works, the special characteristics and strong points of these zones are highlighted. And the works become site-specific. Tailored. Regardless of whether the creative outpourings take place for – and on – a windbreak or a full façade.
In her point of departure Ane Lykke works in a very controlled manner, often on the basis of a grid and usually while employing simple geometric shapes that are easily decipherable in themselves. At the same time her works are created for spaces where many people pass through, and the way in which people experience the works while moving is a central concern in their creation. The key to the pure, serene beauty of Ane Lykke’s works resides in her superb ability to play with the transition between the statically two-dimensional and the dynamically three-dimensional.
The grids employed are always spatial in nature. Within them, she carefully builds her compositions, which change depending on where you stand and how you move in relation to them; depending on your stride, your velocity, and your state of mind. With their restrained simplicity, Ane Lykke’s works enter the souls of passersby as an unexpectedly strong and unforgettable poetic experience. There is much beauty in store for us from the hands of this designer in future.