Kristoffer Axen 'Entropy'
Kristoffer Axen 'Entropy'
Artist : Kristoffer Axen
Title : Entropy
Medium : oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm
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Kristoffer Axén’s atmospheric paintings are often auto-biographical as a means of tapping into the wider human condition. Works revolve around themes including the utopia of childhood, the temporary, dreamlike, quality of reality and the unconscious search for something oblique or unspecified. A sense of nostalgia is often tinged with an overarching feeling of the melancholy of transience. Inspired by cinematic imagery, anonymous photographs from the internet and childhood snapshots, Axén’s paintings and drawings are often bordering the dreamstate and the inner world. While contemporary and historic references include Michael Borremans, Mamma Andersson, Vilhelm Hammershoi and Richard Diebenkorn, his use of textured mechanical pencil for the drawings and the juxtaposed realism with the simplified blocks in his paintings are uniquely his own.