[1] Born in Copenhagen, as a young man Bang became interested in Surrealism as practised by Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy.
He exhibited with pioneers in the field including Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt and Bruce Nauman.
[1] Working in an existentialist approach with modest materials, the fragment is a recurring theme and concepts include construction and destruction, open and closed, covering and uncovering, structure and process.
His work has addressed the potential of the object, representing absurd perceptions of dissonance in our attempts to achieve harmony between ourselves and our surroundings.
He exhibited them in the United States in leading museums together with other pioneers such as Robert Morris, Eva Hesse and Joel Shapiro.