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CHRISTOFFER MUNCH ANDERSEN
TO
THE EDGE is an exhibition featuring paintings by Christoffer Munch
Andersen at Henningsen Contemporary from 13th November – 18th December
2009.
COLOUR-REFLECTION-GEOMETRY
The exhibition
consists of a series of large paintings, each a realistic depiction of
an enlarged object. All the works have been painted in a singular
colour or with the use of a colour system. Reflection is included
either directly as seen in the paintings featuring metal tins and a
shopping cart made of shiny plastic, the object reflects itself. In a
double subject painting two coffee filters reflect the image of each
other. The works also feature a completely symmetrical plastic packet
of meat and the underneath of a fruit juice carton in which the printed
pattern is repeated along the edge, as the subject.
The composition in the paintings, is tightly controlled by laws of geometry, the square, the circle and the trapeze.
TO
THE EDGE refers to the decision of the artist to paint the edges of the
subject to the edge of the frame allowing this to determine the
paintings form.
The exhibition can be seen in context of Still
life – as in the traditional genre of the Netherlands with a drawing of
inanimate objects in interaction with hidden meanings.
Each
painting in this exhibition depicts an object, an interaction occurs in
the way that the works are displayed in the gallery space, so the
viewer becomes placed in the middle of a Still life with objects from a
basic supermarket shopping trip.
TO THE EDGE refers to
boundaries existing between and the coming together of, the painterly
genres, methods and issues. Realism, constructivism, minimalism and
abstraction exchange positions.
The works in this exhibition
exist both as individual pieces and together become an installation
pushing Still Life - the genre to the extreme. |
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