The Materiality of the Banal Peter Carlsen operates at the intersection of high art and the mundane. His work does not seek to escape reality but to confront it through a lens of satire and physical presence. Born in Holbæk, Denmark, in 1955, Carlsen developed a practice that refuses to settle into a single medium. He moves between painting, graphics, and ceramics with a fluidity that suggests a preoccupation with how objects and imag…