 Sleeping Child, 2004 Oil on canvas, 42 x 33 cm Glenn Sorensen Working meticulously, building up the layers of paint slowly, Glenn Sorensen offer small windows into his real life studio and home. He paints his everyday surroundings but also pushes the motifs towards a two-dimensional abstraction. Perhaps most of all the intimate and highly seductive paintings offer glimpses into an ideal world, tinted mauve. "The paintings I'v done for this show are paintings! They are about painterly problems: Composition, colour, line, etc. I've put the paintings together with care in an effort to make pleasing works, but probably, above all else in an effort to make good paintings. As with the majority of my work the beginnings of the paintings come from what I have around me. Things I see everyday and I know well. Some of these objects I've painted before, like the "Mother - In - Laws Tongue", which is my constant companion in the studio. I only have to turn it a little bit and I can then start again. There is also a painting of my son sleeping, plants in the garden and things on the floor in the studio. The one work which might be considered an odd one out is a painting of a memory / snapshot taken while visiting Bangkok. But it is called "Holiday", which brings it back into the loop. It probably goes without saying that I paint what I want to see, that I paint for myself" (Glenn Sorensen, October 2004). Exhibition: October 29 - December 18, 2004 Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 12am - 5pm, Sat 12am - 3pm Galleri Nicolai Wallner Njalsgade 21 (Building 15) DK-2300 Copenhagen Telephone +45 325 709 70 Fax +45 325 709 71 Email nw@nicolaiwallner.com www.nicolaiwallner.com |
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