John kenn mortensen biography of abraham
John kenn mortensen biography of abraham
Inside with the outsider John Kenn Mortensen - Opaque Journal.
All work photos courtesy of the John Kenn Mortensen corporation.
THE DOODLE-LIKE quality of Danish John Kenn Mortensen’s monster-drawings caught our eye, so we paid him a visit in his flat in the southern area of Copenhagen.
The hung over artist greets us with a big beard, very small eyes and a mild giggle.
By: Erik Duckert
Photos by: Martin Kurt Haglund
Door Phone: “Who?!
– shit, that’s right … come in, come in.”
Opens, closes, collapses.
John Kenn Mortensen (b. 1978) has a vast experience within comics, TV–production, filmmaking and doodling.
He breathes heavily, gets up.
MORTENSEN: “Coffee!”
M: “My Work is kind of a salute to the misfits of the world.”
M: “I feel like a misfit on the Danish art scene myself; there is a certain ‘jargon’ and code of conduct that I don’t really fit into.”
M: “Guess you could describe my work as low-brow art, if you’