Kasper Sonne - Pure Colors

'Lists of words that I see when I look at Kasper Sonne's work. Words in my own head, scrolling by, as much as in the work itself:  Black holes, density, mirrors, reflections, lies, secrets, possibility, infinite, alchemy of numbers, uselessness of letters, violence.'
Shamim M. Momin - on language, secrets, violence and truth in the work of Kasper Sonne.

Charles Bank Gallery is pleased to present "Pure Colors" a new mixed media exhibition by Kasper Sonne, September 16^th - October 24^th 2010.

Kasper Sonne's work confronts as much as it reflects. It find meaning through its secretive and dense nature. The work displays a deep awareness of the crisis constructed within a deliberate circle of repetition and reappropriation, where meaning is lost and regained, only to be lost and regained again.
Sonne's ritualized work process is informed by elaborate systems of science and poetry, however the exact nature of these systems can never be more than guessed at as we only see what they produce. It is as if the broken and reflective surfaces, as well as the isolated words, bind together in a constant and provocative gesture forcing us to confront them and fight back. Our reactions highlight an inherent desire and need to produce meaning, coherence, systems of understanding and knowledge wherever such is not easily given. And so a crisis unfolds before us, but it also invites us to intervene, in fact it understands it only exists because of us, and the aggression of our gaze.
It beckons us to either accept it as part of a system of base materialism, which destabilizes our general foundations of meaning and conception, or to attack it head on, making itself the willing victim of our subjugating nature. As viewers we become the final element that sets the various crises in motion and only then do we realize that it is our gaze and our involvement, which breathe life and meaning into otherwise void and reflective surfaces.


Kasper Sonne was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1974 and studied at the Danish School of Design. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions at museums and galleries across Europe and North America and has made several public and site specific art installations in Denmark, Norway, UK and most recently in August at Sala Arte Publico Siqueiros in Mexico City. Kasper Sonne's exhibition coincides with the publication of his book  'The End is the Beginning' published by Revolver and with essays by Shamim M. Momim and Benjamin Godsill.
Kasper Sonne lives and works in New York City.

For further inquiries please contact Michael Bank Christoffersen at michael@charlesbankgallery.com or 212 219 4095