Mads Gamdrup’s monochrome oil paintings explore the materiality of color through layered, hand-ground pigments. Balancing transparency and density, the surfaces reveal subtle shifts in tone and light. While seemingly minimal, each work contains traces of movement – gestural brushstrokes and the imprint of the hand – inviting slow, attentive looking.

Rooted in a decades-long engagement with photography, these paintings continue Gamdrup’s investigation into light, color, and perception. By reducing the image to a single color, he creates space for reflection and sensory experience, where meaning emerges not from depiction but from the act of seeing.