Jan Sebastian Koch: If Mountains Could Sing

4 Apr-20 Jun 2020

Overview

Following his successful solo show during last year’s Summer Marathon (in which 7 artists presented week-long solo shows over the summer), German artist Jan Sebastian Koch returns to the gallery with his first full-length exhibition, titled If Mountains Could Sing. The exhibition takes inspiration from his adopted home of Norway, Icelandic music, and the “silence and calmness in Northern Norway” where the artist states that the landscape sees few people and hears “hardly any sound apart from the wind through the landscape”. Looking at his serene, ethereal colour-field paintings, it is easy to imagine shifting polar landscapes, melting ice-caps, or the first sprig of flora awakening through the melted snow.