Christoffer Munch Andersen

TO THE EDGE

The exhibition was shown at Henningsen Contemporary & The Danish Cultural Institute in Brussels

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.