Filip Jensens art...

A fabulous Easter Saturday, my pulse run up in the sky and I get happy to land in some kind of Alice in Wonderland but in a totally different way…

http://www.bankeraat.dk/

On our way to find Ahlefeldsgade 27-29 and Bankeråt we have the luck to run into the artist Filip Jensen by coincidence. We find a window that was really really crazy in a good way, at least in my way of look at things, I get really really happy over this crazy window with a lot of strange animals that was mixed in a very very crazy way (and I mead crazy as a good way!) When we were standing their admire all the animal that was mixed with dolls and other things a voice behind us asked if we want to buy something. No, we are just admiring all this stuff. The voice belongs to Filip Jensen and I asked if it was possible to have a look and it was!!! This short visit made my day more then anything else, even if I had a great day this meeting I will live at for a very very long time I can tell for sure. I was allowed to take photos and I thought he was a nice guy, when I was high-strung over all the impressions and art that he had create, he just say; it´s nature! That was the way he see it, and in my way I had got into a candy store of art.

Filip Jensens kunst

Jais fik indrettet Bankeråt med forskellige kunstnere og skabte det skæve univers, som vi kender Bankeråt for i dag. Den kunstner, som har sat det største præg på Bankeråt - og stadig gør det - er den lokale kunstner

Dyr og dukker

Det første der møder én, når man træder ind af døren på Bankeråt, er en bjørn i tjenerkostume. Hele Bankeråt er befolket af dyr i alle afskygninger, iklædt mennesketøj og i gang med at udføre handlinger, der strider imod deres natur. De overtager vores roller og handlemønstre. Grævlingen er stivnet i sin læderjakke midt i en dans, stadig med radioen klæbet til øret.

Dyreliv

Kunstneren bag dyrene er Filip Jensen, som har lavet skulpturer siden 1987. Han skabte sin første skulptur ved et tilfælde. "Hos en marskandiser så jeg et hjortehoved med knækket gevir, og da jeg senere fik øje på en mannequindukkekrop, samlede de to dele sig i mit hoved." Siden da har Filip arbejdet på at give dyrene livet tilbage og finde tøj, der passer til deres personlighed.