Carl Krull

Carl Krull (b. 1975) has studied at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts i Polen and San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico. His work has, among other places, been exhibited at ARoS, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, and performed at the Royal Theater in Denmark and internationally, including the USA, Poland and France. Most recently, he exhibited at Tokyo Gendai in Japan, presenting a solo show and live drawing performances on large-scale sheets of paper. Carl Krull is known for his seismographic work method. His drawings and paintings depict figures inhabiting topographical territories that break new ground, revealing our world as if mapped by sonar and echolocated in space. In his paintings, instead of brushstrokes adding paint, the image emerges from the fingers now removing the paint, as if the canvas had been a foggy mirror. A portrait materializes consisting of unrestrained lines representing both longitudes and latitudes simultaneously. Circular orbits appear in the wet paint, and expose the surface of a face, like a distant planet scanned by an interstellar probe. A portrait emerges without specific characteristics and remains open and transparent. Krull's technique involves layering lines resembling longitudes, latitudes, and meridian curves, forming intricate networks that challenge the inherent flatness of the medium.