"My first meeting with author Karen Blixen was in 1982. It was pure coincidence, and I first thought that with her "outdated" language, she must have been dead for at least 100 years. After a few pages of reading, I was totally enchanted by the being that emanated from this author, its amazing dramas, its imagination and its erratic style. In my mind, the paintings appeared one after the other. I then read everything there was to read about this author. A few years later the film "Out of Africa" was released, then a Museum was dedicated to her in the old house she occupied in Nairobi, Kenya. A few years later the Karen Blixen Museum opened in Rungstedlund, Denmark. When the Capazza gallery offered me a personal exhibition, I thought it would be exciting to pay tribute to Karen Blixen with my own expression. With Karen Blixen, playfulness, seriousness and strangeness are inseparable. Her writing is interwoven with references to, for example, the Bible and the Koran, from which she integrates narratives and figures, God and the prophets, symbols and questions. But they are evoked and diverted with humour – some could make it a blasphemous reading – while demonstrating that his world is no less profound. She manages - with one of her favorite Shakespearean quotations - to transform precious pieces from the past and tradition "into something rich and strange" - into a "new and wonderful Treasure". She’s mischievous by nature, but "well-behaved". So you have to be very careful to spot your mischief behind the literal facade and the old-fashioned style that is deliberately transvestite." Inge Horup May 2022