CHRISTIAN SKEEL MALERIER 2009-10

CHRISTIAN SKEEL
MALERIER 2009-10

Christian Skeel
Press Release in Danish (PDF)

Duration
29.10. – 27.11.2010

Opening
29.10.2010 at 5-8 PM

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LENE ADLER PETERSEN:
“Sætning” 1974. Blysat 2010
(Extended. Previously shown at the exhibition ”Nogle arbejder fra halvfjerdserne”)

Lene Adler Petersen’s project ”Sætning 1974” is supported by the Danish Arts Council

Christian Skeel Malerier 2009-10” (Christian Skeel Paintings 2009-10) is Christian Skeel’s second solo exhibition at Galleri Tom Christoffersen. The works are large scale. They present evocative landscapes folded and laid out with respect for the viewer’s ability to sense and navigate in the space of a painting.

How we perceive the world interests Christian Skeel. When he works with painting as media, this interest is focused in the choice of subject matter, by a thorough knowledge of the geometry of the surface and of visual perception. The often complex and detailed compositions appear, therefore, always in balance.

The landscapes are pushed towards the painting’s edge or disappear in a labyrinthine structure into the depth of the painting. And at the same time the paintings incorporate observations from a reality where we exist as body in motion. One particular painting recalls the enhanced experience of being situated in the shadow at the edge of a clearing and experiencing the spectacular contrast as the eye is directed towards sunspots and a meadow bathed in sunshine. Besides to recall something learned or observed the same painting simultaneously presents the façade of a building, that opens up into parallel winter landscape – a displacement of time and space. These impossible spaces are present in all Christian Skeel’s landscape paintings. The complex compositions and the paint method are inspired by digital abilities to morph, rotate, repeat, mirror and blur. They are paintings, where technology has a harmonious place in the final expression.

Lene Adler Petersen’s project ”Sætning 1974” is supported by The Danshis Arts Council.

Christian Skeel (1956) is an artist and composer. He, along with Morten Skriver created installations, books and films, most recently and in collaboration with physicist Clive Ellegaard; NBI Colliderscope an installation placed on the facade of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen’s main building. The artwork is directly connected with the world’s biggest physics experiments currently taking place at CERN outside Geneva.
As a composer, he has released CDs including “Metropolitan suid” (with Martin Hall), “Total Compositions” (w. Morti Vizki) and “Short Pieces”. Books like “Rejsebog, Vej” ” and “Den usynlige Dreng” are produced in collaboration with Morti Vizki. Christian Skeel is represented at Kiasma, Helsinki (SF), Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg. The New Carlsberg Foundation and The Danish Arts Foundation has previously acquired paintings by Christian Skeel.

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Lene Adler Petersen: Sætning 1974