MATHIAS MALLING MORTESEN INNER SOUND

29 July - 20 August Galleria SARP 

SARP is pleased to present the first solo show in Italy of Mathias Malling Mortensen, abstract artist from Copenhagen. The exhibition shows works conceived in Sicily. Spanning works in oil on canvas and paper cuttings, through which he interrogates the relationship between form, color and space- the show features works that have been influenced by the landscape of Sicily together with seminal works which remain at the core of Mortensen’s practice. In his paintings, he expresses the sound of colours through chromatic juxtapositions .

They are part of a geometric abstraction emphasising the luminous surface of the painting into natural and crossed lines. A careful look of his paintings reveals the deteriorating marks of his brush strokes, gently distorting the two-dimensional picture surface and creating a surprise to the observer. In his paper cuttings, he cuts the paper with absolute perfection: works often comprise of small or big geometric cuts which then become part of a harmonious composition. Each cut has been done with a single gesture and there is affinity between rawness of the cut and the colour applied to it. Mortensen's paintings and paper cuttings succeed in creating a language of Inner Sound in which no one is fully present unless the depth of colour, forms and shapes bring a synaestethic reference to the future.