'Clear Water/ Broken Surface' for example 'Vättenstrom' is literaly put under a modernist loop, as an abstract grid enlarges and paraphrases the tones of the water tableau, resulting in a stained glass effect similar to 'The Painters Window'. This concept of using the visual landscape as an analytical frame of reference led to a series of what I would refer to as self-reflective paintings. In 'Landscape with colour scheme' for instance, a highly figurative, Kasper David Friedrichian fragment of a landscape is isolated and surrounded by monochrome colour patterns, which analyse the colour construction within the visual illusion of the fragment. The painting reminds of a page out of a painting instruction book on how to select and melt the colours from a pallet to create the illusion of nature. But where the instruction book request a colour before the brush touches the canvas, the artist deconstructs the given scenery by analysing the use of colour after the scape has been painted.
Janine Hofland, The Painters Window, Malin Persson (Clear Water / Broken Surface work N° 2 page 9)
'Clear Water/ Broken Surface' for example 'Vättenstrom' is literaly put under a modernist loop, as an abstract grid enlarges and paraphrases the tones of the water tableau, resulting in a stained glass effect similar to 'The Painters Window'. This concept of using the visual landscape as an analytical frame of reference led to a series of what I would refer to as self-reflective paintings. In 'Landscape with colour scheme' for instance, a highly figurative, Kasper David Friedrichian fragment of a landscape is isolated and surrounded by monochrome colour patterns, which analyse the colour construction within the visual illusion of the fragment. The painting reminds of a page out of a painting instruction book on how to select and melt the colours from a pallet to create the illusion of nature. But where the instruction book request a colour before the brush touches the canvas, the artist deconstructs the given scenery by analysing the use of colour after the scape has been painted.
Janine Hofland, The Painters Window, Malin Persson (Clear Water / Broken Surface work N° 2 page 9)
