Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Cadmium Orange Red Violet Lamp Black Synchronicity, Callum Innes’ solo exhibition is now on view at Kode Bergen through April 27, 2024. Conceived specially for Kode’s Tower Room the exhibition features two site-specific wall works, a selection of oil paintings and a series of 40 watercolors accompanied by poems by the Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark. Innes has also created a new outdoor light installation for the façade of the Lysverket, the former electrical power plant for the city of Bergen.
Using the language of the monochrome, Innes’ paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, painting and “un-painting” by removing sections of color from the canvas with turpentine. Throughout his work Innes brings the potential of alchemy to abstract painting, holding a line between control and chaos.
“I will show a new “Monologue” painting: This comes from a series I made 15 years ago, which I have recently returned to. They use exploration of process, layering, and the transformative nature of paint. They come from a body of work which deal with paintings having their own intrinsic history. They are about a formed landscape and I felt it was appropriate for Bergen – as the meaning in English is Mountain.” – Callum Innes
