In the end
of Lars Nittve's essay for Hanson's exhibition at Rooseum in 1995 (which Nittve curated), he writes:»... To Hanson,
though, the main question is likely something different: how to find the precise
point of resistance,
of friction,
of dissonance, that will allow him once again to put the maximum pressure on convention — on painting; that will make you feel that the art's narrow constraints are about to burst wide open; or, to use a well - worn but wonderful cliché, that will make the art sing».