GHENT, BELGIUM.- S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst presents Jan Christensen - BAR-code, on view through January 7, 2007.
The work of the young artist Jan Christensen (b. 1978, Denmark) mainly comprises murals and site-specific works.

In his colourful, room-filling murals he effortlessly combines figurative and abstract elements, and the painterly application of colour with computer graphics and graffiti writing. The result of this mixture of high and low culture is often a visual explosion of forms, colours, decorative patterns and vibrating lines.

His site-specific works, for which he takes the architecture of the space itself as his starting point, display a much more muted range of colours. No bursting colourful explosions, but architectural drawings meticulously sketched on the computer and then mounted on the wall with extreme precision in elegant black, grey and blue.

For BARCODE Christensen will do a site-specific mural based on the architectural drawings of the S.M.A.K. café.