John Kørner: Apple Bombs

There's often a disconcerting lightness of touch to John Kørner's paintings. The Danish artist paints wet-into-wet, apparently quickly, leaving lots of space for things to start to dissolve, or begin to blend into other things. Like ideas in the process of being formed, they can lead you in strange, new directions. There's always a serious intention behind these apparently whimsical images, however. In the past, Kørner has tackled issues such as Danish soldiers killed in combat in Afghanistan. In this new body of work, apples fall like bombs while land, air and water seem to merge into one another, beautifully but ominously.