Magnus Fisker’s exhibition "I dine udstrakte hænder" (In Your Extended Hands) presents the audience with a series of new paintings that have served as a space of reflection for the artist to paint himself into. The artist has written the following about the body of work:

 

“With a murderer’s hand, I paint flowers, a momentary shelter from eternal reproaches. A timed devil mask marks an otherwise happy life. The paintings have emerged as a kind of activism with thoughts about being present in the near and trying to love in a time when evil has crept into all our actions”

 

With these words, Fisker enters a space of quiet reflection. Here, he paints mortality through flowers, love through images, and evil through the devil’s mask. His words carry a fragility that resonates in the expansive landscapes and abstract motifs that Fisker paints with sensitivity. The works exist as a shelter for the artist, as a hiding place, as a space for contemplation and peace. Here he expresses love and care. This care is felt in the paintings as a clear presence, marked in the pasty brushstrokes, in the play of colours in and out of each other, and in the atmosphere that holds each motif together.

 

Yet even in this tender treatment of painting, something unsettling lingers. A quiet unrest insists on being seen, surfacing at times in darker colours that stain the canvas like traces of evil. One senses it in the faint remains of blame, as a devil hovering at the edges, never fully retreating. With this exhibition, Magnus Fisker opens a space of reflection, where love and mortality, comfort and darkness, exist side by side.