COPENHAGEN.- The ARKEN Museum in Denmark presents the exhibit Go Figure! Young Danish Painting through August 6. Colourful and compelling, fantastic and figurative. Just now a new generation of young, popular painters are sweeping onto the Danish art scene. They and their works are hot in demand. But what in fact is their approach to the long established medium of painting, which themes occupy them and what stories do they have at heart?

The exhibition presents about fifty works, taking the temperature of the new figurative painting which since the mid-1990s has gained an artistic foothold. The expressions are as manifold as the subjects and themes employed: Anything from sublime landscapes and fantastic visions to farms on country roads and ordinary everyday situations appear. The paintings set the stage for odd and sometimes grotesque scenes taking place in anything from a teenager's untidy room to a magical fairytale universe.

In the past years ARKEN has acquired a substantial collection of the new figurative painting. Some of these pictures will be shown in the exhibition accompanied by a number of works on loan – including paintings by the very young artists who are graduating from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts these days.