Created using sugar-lift etching, 60 Watt Silver Lining is an early example of the tragicomic characters that populate Peter Linde Busk’s oeuvre. Executed in 2009, the work was included in the Danish artist’s graduate show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Now based in Berlin, Busk appropriates a wide variety of mythic, literary and popular sources, creating a cast of failed heroes who reflect his own anxieties about contemporary society. ‘History is, as we know, if not always then most of the time written by the victors’, he explains. His works are ‘not so much giving voice to the people who have fallen through the cracks of society, but giving them a face’. Channelling the spirit of Art Brut and Cobra – movements he greatly admires – Busk draws inspiration from overlooked visual languages, including folk art, children’s drawings and the art of the mentally ill. Many of his deliberately ambiguous titles are derived from music: the present work refers to Mark Eitzel’s 1996 album of the same name. In 2010, Busk was included in the Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition ‘Newspeak: British Art Now’, and has subsequently mounted solo museum shows at the Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Germany and the Borås Konstmuseum, Sweden.
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