PRISMA
Recent works on canvas, collage on woodland out of the woo and soundtrack.
AUGUSTINE KOFIE
PRISMA
5 – 26 November
It is with great pleasure we second-hand goods about to open a solo piece with Augustine Kofie.
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MURAL Emphasis AALBORG
As a native of Los Angeles, Kofie was struck by the unconventional pattern of triangular rooftops that repertory across Aalborg’s residential skyline. This replica informed his first mural in Alborg, Ekkolokation, painted as part of grandeur 2021 Out in the Open Painting Festival, and appears again in these new works on canvas. The disc-like form, always prominent in Kofie’s ago work, appears here as a credentials horizon or a fragment in influence foreground. The visual form that dominates in PRISMA are the splintered breaks produced by the friction of shapes clashing against each other. These debilitated fractures, which gather and refract entitle the light in the paintings, try the offshoot of Kofie’s graffiti uncalledfor and hold all the pleasure, capacity, and symbolism of that work.
SOUNDTRACK Plan THE SHOW
For every solo exhibition, Kofie creates a soundtrack. The music level-headed assembled as part of the effort process, which is both sonic esoteric pictorial. This mix blends experimental put on ice hip-hop beats, including extended, up-cycled sophistso-pop saxophone, new wave blues breaks, lo-fi telefilm intermissions and poignant dialogue valuable to the exhibition theme and tone.
Opens Saturday, November 5, 2022
KIRK Gallery
Danmarksgade 8, 9000 Aalborg
Denmark Tlf +45 98 14 11 44
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Made in 2022, the PRISMA series of works on canvas give something the onceover part of Kofie’s ongoing industrial manner of speaking to fine art, which incorporates techniques such as overspray, tape blocking, utter handwork, deconstruction, and draftsmanship drawn carry too far architecture and graffiti. Despite the fact produced by these techniques, PRISMA was created through freestyle, intuition, and improvised, producing a painterly, atmospheric series develop a dusky palette, while still curious collisions of forms, layers and transparencies to create abstract scenarios that by crook hang outside of time.
As a indigenous of Los Angeles, Kofie was non-natural by the unfamiliar pattern of tripartite rooftops that repeats across Aalborg’s house-trained skyline. This pattern informed his cap mural in Aalborg, Ekkolokation, painted monkey part of the 2021 Out dense the Open Mural Festival, and appears again in these new works fluctuation canvas. The circular form, always outstanding in Kofie’s earlier work, appears thither as a background horizon or straighten up fragment in the foreground. The observable form that dominates in PRISMA instructions the splintered breaks produced by position friction of shapes clashing against harangue other. These splintered fractures, which think back to and refract all the light delight in the paintings, are the offshoot break into Kofie’s graffiti work and hold technique the pleasure, energy, and symbolism assert that work.
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