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Christian Skeel’s new paintings deal with different corners of the world’s visual presence on a scale from open winter landscapes, waves and tree trunks to other artists’ pictures and film stills. The paintings have in common that they all lead the familiar and intimate, originally photographed, space out to the border where it partly breaks down in visual paradoxes.The familiar spaces and scenarios are folded into boxes or dissolved to a series of frames that move into the picture, thereby bringing disorder into what is near and far and what is up or down. On another level the paintings combine the photorealistic and almost transparent representation with more dense textures of paint, which points to the painterly act as a material and bodily phenomenon. The paintings are not just snap-shots of spaces that stand still, but also spaces that takes place through time. To step into such landscapes is also to step out into a more disorienting space, where things are misplaced compared to how they use to be, retranslated through a materialized and kaleidoscopic approach.On the other hand, all these confusing spaces and visual wrong-turns don’t seem to lead directly to chaos. There are in the paintings also a calm and sense of balance, that invite to absorption and make it possible to come nearer the spaces and experiences which lie just outside or behind the objective eye of the camera.
Christian Skeel (b. 1956 DK) is a visual artist and composer and have often worked interdisciplinary, by example he has created the light artwork on the front façade on the Nils Bohr Institute “NBI Colliderscope” (2010) with visual artist Morten Skriver and the physicist Clive Ellegaard. Selected solo exhibitions: "Portraits" (2013), ”Malerier 2009-10” (2010), ”Nærbilleder” (2008), Galleri Tom Christoffersen. As a composer he has released the cds ”Metropolitan Suide” (w. Martin Hall), ”Samlede Kompositioner” (w. Morti Vizki) and ”Short Pieces”. Publications: ”Rejsebog, Vej” and ”Den usynlige dreng” made in collaborationMorti Vizki. Christian Skeel is represented by a.o.: Kiasma, Helsinki (SF), Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Ny Carlsberg Foundation and The Danish Art Foundation.
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Three Body Problem, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2018
Portraits, solo exhibition, Galleri Tom Christoffersen 2013
Paintings 2009-10, solo exhibition, Galleri Tom Christoffersen 2010
