Metamorphosis: Morten Lassen

For Danish artist Morten Lassen, the intangible world of big data is art’s brave new frontier.

Lassen has for a decade, investigated an invisible world that we struggle to comprehend let alone visualise—creating paintings of the indefinable moment where words, pictures and music traverse the space between our computers and mobile devices. It is information transference on a scale and speed that is increasing exponentially every year. 

Lassen is describing a landscape of the world that we cannot see. In doing so he is creating a language of marks that owes much to Modernist methodologies, yet is thoroughly contemporary in its underlying manifesto.

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the Italian Futurists celebrated the rapid changes in technology and society—speed was king, the motor car the agent and symbol of the new world order. The world was becoming a faster place and painting had to evolve to remain relevant.