...& deadly decor 2018

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A google search of the word green, a commission and a visit to Horsens Statsskole, which was founded in 1532, lead to the exhibition theme, title, and person depictions.


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...& darkness

oil on plexiglas and canvas 106 x 86 cm

...& vibrio cholera

oil on plexiglas and canvas 106 x 86 cm


...& refraction of light

oil on plexiglas and canvas 106 x 86 cm

A google search of the word green, a commission and a visit to Horsens Statsskole, which was founded in 1532, lead to the exhibition theme, title, and person depictions.

...& arsen

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


...& tri

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm

...& oxid

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


We are all familiar with the color green and for the modern human being it is hard to imagine, that it would be deadly, to get the color on your walls. Never the less, this was the case back in late 17 and 1800.


...& Gosio's gas

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


...& Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


After 1775, White cobber arsenic was used in the production of green soap, candles, fabric, toys, grocery and wallpaper. In 1875 it became possible to produce wallpaper mechanical and therefore affordable for the Victorian middle class. Their homes where decorated with green wallpaper containing up to 1gram of arsenic per m2, that alone enough to kill hundreds.

The color green runs through the exhibition ”…& deadly decor”, which contain 18 oil paintings on canvas and green plexiglass. The motifs are depictions of persons, who have a historical connection to the knowledge of colors or the story about the arsenic wallpaper.


...& Scheeles green

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


...& Paris green

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


...& arsenic

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


The idea to these depictions of historical person’s, came partly from a commission and a visit to the above mentioned school, where June Jin, got a guided tour through the extensive portrait collection. The collection shows the development in how people throughout 400 years, has chosen to be immortalized through painted portraits. Later this year, June Jin herself will contribute with a portrait to this very collection.

...& gravitation

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


...& zur Farbenlehre

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm


...& myth

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm

...& the whistle

oil on canvas

46 x 36 cm