Magnus Plessen
13.10.2017
Saganonack
Magnus Plessen is best known for a painting style that combines additive and subtractive techniques. Plessen often begins with a photograph, using both brush and spatula, to revisit the image. He enjoys taking familiar images to an “unknown place” through his art.
He is also known for his signature blocky forms and the blending of figures and background, as well as the use of vivid colors. In more recent works, he has been exploring ideas of rotation and revolution, and employing a central axis point in his compositions.
LINKS
Discussing his work at White Cube
Solo Exhibitions
2016 "The Skin of Volume," White Cube, London
2015 "Nineteen Hundred Fourteen," Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 “1914: Magnus Plessen,” Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
2013 “Magnus Plessen,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2012 “Magnus Plessen,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Riding the Image,” White Cube, London
2010 “Magnus Plessen,” Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland