John Kørner

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Commenced during a residency with the gallery in Venice, this new body of work is rich with association, taking the city as a metaphorical springboard into atmospheric realms of speculation and imagination. These new paintings reveal a fluidity of paint and thought as the artist considers aspects of place, his experience of and connection to a city saturated with images and its emotional and psychological undertow.
Hues of gelato or spritz denote a sun-drenched, near-hallucinatory world.
The paintings are rich with association – environmental, atmospheric, chromatic, gastronomic. Elements of Venice’s topography are discernible, its watery aspect evident throughout. Yet, driving forces of fluctuation, mutability and unpredictability serve to unsettle just as reference points are established and understood. Horizons stretch and warp, the ground shifts, rises and falls, defying logic or nature. Meanwhile, heightened, at times pointedly saccharine colours – hues of gelato or spritz – denote a sun-drenched, near-hallucinatory world.