These are the myths and legends of Ancient Greece like you’ve never seen them told before. American painter Richard Colman brings the narratives to life with a vivid, almost hallucinatory palette and a delivery that is bold and yet not immediately obvious.
The stories on the 18 canvases in Noise need some absorbing, revealing their patterns and themes slowly after the senses recover from an initial barrage caused by the overwhelming colours Colman has employed. That’s not to say things are always clear in these paintings. Hair becomes smoke to be inhaled, ceramics become part of people, strange gymnastic poses and a proliferation of limbs cause visual confusion. A bear even rides a human riding a human. Maybe. Living and working in San Francisco, Colman returns to V1 gallery, Copenhagen, with this collection in which he continues exploring ideas of birth and creation, nature and geometry but with a boiled down, less busy style. The closing date is 15 March.
