12.04-12.05.2024

THE QUOTIDIEN, 2024. Karsten Krogh-Hansen was born in Oslo and is currently studying painting in Antwerp, Belgium. With a peculiar interest in painting as a medium, he combines everyday scenes of life and artisanal materials, which together emphasizes a complexity and dynamism - lending his work both immediacy and timelessness.

By mixing his own distemper paint with custom made cloth, he explores new relationships between the paint and the canvas. The chemical process has become an important part of the process, in an effort to record his observations. He reflects a respect for tradition in the context of a modern every day. Including his own artist's frames, his paintings are technical and personal in equal measure. With a certain sense of melancholia, he explores both landscape and portraiture, thus the identification isn’t always clear. His subjects are often on the edge of abstraction and make themselves recognizable to the spectator through a latent cognitive perception.

Because of the many layers in Krogh-Hansen's work, his paintings feel almost sculptural. With a sense of escapism, he is showing that past memories aren’t locked in the past but can shape a hopeful future.

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