Rasmus Høj Mygind
Transparency
(17.02.2012 – 17.03.2012)
It is a great pleasure to present Rasmus Høj Myginds first soloshow in HENNINGSEN gallery. In this exhibition he deals with the new abstract painting and its digital spin off.
In his new series of Vacuumed Paintings Rasmus Høj Mygind is working with the basic premiss of painting, the colour and the surface. Dry colour pigment is smeared onto the raw canvas, then retouched using a vacuum cleaner, which is hereby introduced as a new and crucial artistic tool. The results are saturated and dusty abstract paintings containing the traces of their own creation.
As the vacuum cleaner removes the pigment from the surface of the canvas so does the eraser tool in photoshop remove the pixels from the digital image. The Photoshop-drawings based on photographs of volatile doodles in dew or dust on windowpanes are closely related to the paintings. The sum of this coupling could point at the transience of, well ’everything’, existential basic conditions, our ’eternal’ state of relative temporality. Dealing with our fundamental urge to leave a mark how ever insignificant and fleeting it may be.
What to do with the dust? With the dust we used to be, and will become again very soon?
The title of the exhibition, Transparency is taken from the work Transparency Wall Paper based on a photograph of the ’Transparency Layer’ in the computer program Photoshop which is normally invisible in print and only existing so to speak as a structure within the program itself. The wall paper is mounted onto a temporary cardboard wall connecting the two rooms of the gallery, creating a common backdrop for the show of a ’nothingness’ made tangible. And in this context serving as a more appropriate stand in for the usual white cube walls.
Transparency shows the basic urge for abstraction, for painting and colour and is, as always when it comes to the work of Rasmus Høj Mygind, done with unexpected twists and turns leaving this investigation in an exciting and generative limbo.
Andreas Henningsen
Welcome at the opening
Friday, February 13.
At 5 - 7 pm
The exhibition is supported by The Danish Arts Council
