Paintworks
Mellanrummet, Malmö Konsthall

2020

 

 

installation view

installation view

Hvid på grå (affotograferet 24. februar)

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Grå på rød (affotograferet 18. marts)

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Paintworks (2010-18) is a series of photographic works by the artists Jonas Georg Christensen and Peter Olsen. The series shows their subtle paintings made directly on late modern industrial and public buildings in Denmark during the period 2010–18. Their intervention in the facades of the buildings is discreet and minimalist, and thus differs radically from the graffiti and the art works we are used to seeing in the public space.

 

These big paintings are done in serial and as simple forms, in different variations of grey, white or black colour tones. They seem to be part of the building’s architecture, as they do not try to go against the lines of the walls or disturb the architecture in any other way. On the contrary, the paintings underline the aesthetic qualities of the walls, as well as of the surrounding space, and can be perceived as re-activating the surfaces of the building.

 

The book Paintworks from 2019 is also exhibited in Mellanrummet. This book is a joint edition between Dokument Press and the publishing company Forlaget Emancipa(t/ss)ionsfrugten and contains a longer theoretical text by Carsten Madsen, associate professor at Aarhus University, as well as an introduction by Claus Peder Pedersen, who heads the research school at the School of Architecture in Aarhus.

 

 

context

 

konsthall.malmo.se/paintworks

 

youtube.com/watch?v=atAKJP437P4&t=

 

idoart.dk/jonas-georg-christensen-peter-olsen-paintworks

 

peterolsen.net/bemalinger

 

jonasgeorgchristensen.net/bemalinger

 

jonasgeorgchristensen.net/paintworks

 

jonasgeorgchristensen.net/palimpsest

 

jonasgeorgchristensen.net/collaboration

 

 

photo credit: Brian Kure

 

 

Paintworks
Mellanrummet, Malmö Konsthall

2020

 

 

installation view

installation view

Hvid på grå (affotograferet 24. februar)

installation view

Grå på rød (affotograferet 18. marts)

installation view

installation view

installation view

detalje

detalje

detalje

detalje

detalje

 

 

Paintworks (2010-18) is a series of photographic works by the artists Jonas Georg Christensen and Peter Olsen. The series shows their subtle paintings made directly on late modern industrial and public buildings in Denmark during the period 2010–18. Their intervention in the facades of the buildings is discreet and minimalist, and thus differs radically from the graffiti and the art works we are used to seeing in the public space.

 

These big paintings are done in serial and as simple forms, in different variations of grey, white or black colour tones. They seem to be part of the building’s architecture, as they do not try to go against the lines of the walls or disturb the architecture in any other way. On the contrary, the paintings underline the aesthetic qualities of the walls, as well as of the surrounding space, and can be perceived as re-activating the surfaces of the building.

 

The book Paintworks from 2019 is also exhibited in Mellanrummet. This book is a joint edition between Dokument Press and the publishing company Forlaget Emancipa(t/ss)ionsfrugten and contains a longer theoretical text by Carsten Madsen, associate professor at Aarhus University, as well as an introduction by Claus Peder Pedersen, who heads the research school at the School of Architecture in Aarhus.

 

 

context

 

konsthall.malmo.se/paintworks

 

youtube.com/watch?v=atAKJP437P4&t=

 

idoart.dk/jonas-georg-christensen-peter-olsen-paintworks

 

peterolsen.net/bemalinger

 

jonasgeorgchristensen.net/bemalinger

 

jonasgeorgchristensen.net/paintworks

 

jonasgeorgchristensen.net/palimpsest

 

jonasgeorgchristensen.net/collaboration

 

 

photo credit: Brian Kure

 

 

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