The press release states that Pedersen «was among other things a leading figure in the European artist group Cobra, and whose hallmark was a boundless imagination and an inexhaustible joy in creation... Besides the artist's well known pictorial universe, ARKEN's exhibition also demonstrates the variety of Carl - Henning Pedersen's art:
war pictures typified by wildness and horror, the eruption of energy in the Cobra years, and later examples of a more texturally oriented surface painting.