GLENN SORENSEN
2020-11-16Though figurative painting has been the base of his practice in preceding bodies of work, Sorensen has in recent years increasingly let go of recognizable references in his work. This latest presentation of striking black and green works characterizes Sorensen’s progression into ever greater abstraction.
Essentialism has been the driving force behind Sorensen’s work. In previous work this led him to portray his every day, domestic surroundings, focusing on flowers and plants and his family. The resulting works are instilled with a dreamlike, removed atmosphere, in which the underlying private tensions and emotions remain concealed within the image.
In this recent body of works Sorensen pushes himself further, creating paintings in which the source of the image is masked to unrecognizability. Rather, with the painted canvases laid on wooden panels, the works evoke religious icons. In the use of materials and abstraction, Sorensen explores the essential in the image to a heightened degree. The various bold and less defined lines and spots of colour depicted, communicate an array of movements, emotions and tensions both unknowable and open to interpretation.
Opposite – Non-Stop, 2018
Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2020
Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016PL Amsterdam
Netherlands
