Christoffer Mahlknecht
In his abstract paintings, Christoffer Mahlknecht examines material processes. By heating oil paints with beeswax, he creates crayons that give the paint a multilayered structure.
The crayons are heated by friction, flowing out over folds and cavities before solidifying in a crust. In the series Endogen/Exogen, his paintings are a constant dialogue between what is and what was. A pendulum movement in time and space.
Mahlknecht approaches painting in an open process of retakes and deferrals; traces and fragments of light and shadow are applied, scraped and buried, only to be resurrected with new power, at a new time, through cracks and holes in what was.
b. 1987, Stockholm, Sweden
Endogen/Exogen
Oil and beeswax on canvas
Christoffer Mahlknecht
Latest update: 2022-08-26