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Fredrik Værslev
Untitled, 2019 Spray paint and solvent on canvas, 188 × 79 in. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Andrew Kreps Gallery, and Gió Marconi Untitled, 2019 Spray paint and solvent on canvas, 188 × 79 in. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Andrew Kreps Gallery, and Gió Marconi
In this series of works, Værslev places his painted canvases outdoors for long periods of time and subjects them to the harsh Norwegian climate, their colors and surface tarnished and bleached by rain, snow, and sun. This process of collaboration with the environment creates a powerful disjuncture between the artist’s graphic stripes and the unpredictable effect of natural forces beyond human control. Reminiscent of modernist abstraction, the canvases are based on the designs and sizes of outdoor awnings from the artist’s childhood. They sit angled from the wall on hinges, evoking the shaded shop frontages on Pompeii’s Via dell’Abbondanza. —HJ
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