Max Cahn
www.maxcahn.co.uk
@max.cahn
Statement:
Max Cahn’s paintings invite a sense of reality through perspective and traces of representation. As the image builds, we are left with visual echoes of things found in the real world; some objects seem familiar, while others remain more elusive where suggestions of the everyday are stripped back.
Half-discerned recollections and associations, fragments of thoughts, fleeting sensations and emotions; these are the source material. Trawling the memory banks of his own existence, Max Cahn endeavours to give tangible form to intangible experience; to make real and communicable, that which is ephemeral and private.
We are encouraged to project ourselves into the work; with open spaces, incomplete forms, gaps or breaches that invite the viewer to step in. Leaving us to wrestle with certain components, just as the painter wrestled with the same elements when making the work.
Max Cahn (b.1978) lives and works in Cardiff. Having graduated from Falmouth College of arts (BA) in 2000 and Bath Spa University (MFA) 2007, his work has been exhibited throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.
www.maxcahn.co.uk
@max.cahn
Statement:
Max Cahn’s paintings invite a sense of reality through perspective and traces of representation. As the image builds, we are left with visual echoes of things found in the real world; some objects seem familiar, while others remain more elusive where suggestions of the everyday are stripped back.
Half-discerned recollections and associations, fragments of thoughts, fleeting sensations and emotions; these are the source material. Trawling the memory banks of his own existence, Max Cahn endeavours to give tangible form to intangible experience; to make real and communicable, that which is ephemeral and private.
We are encouraged to project ourselves into the work; with open spaces, incomplete forms, gaps or breaches that invite the viewer to step in. Leaving us to wrestle with certain components, just as the painter wrestled with the same elements when making the work.
Max Cahn (b.1978) lives and works in Cardiff. Having graduated from Falmouth College of arts (BA) in 2000 and Bath Spa University (MFA) 2007, his work has been exhibited throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.
TV Dreams
90 x 120cm
Oil on canvas
2021
90 x 120cm
Oil on canvas
2021