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In mathematics and computer science an algorithm is an unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of tasks.
Mark Redden operates on the boarder of the abstract and the figurative and the tasks he has to solve are of an aesthetic kind. As the French painter Maurice Denis once said “A painting is a surface covered by paint in a certain order. Nothing more and nothing less.”
A painting - even a figurative one - is always abstract in the first place.
It contains information on sizes, shapes and colour. The beauty and difficulty of painting lies in the skilful organisation of these elements. And Mark Redden masterfully explores the tension between them. His paintings are playful diagrams that are based on visual phenomena and human experiences. And even though you can’t often see obvious objects on these canvases you can feel a whole universe that is in them.
Just like a musical piece Redden’s complex works are perfectly orchestrated. Every dot is in the right spot, the brush strokes create rhythm and the colours become sounds like notes that you can almost hear when you look at them. He constructs fascinating visual resonance spaces and invites the viewer to wander trough his paintings.
The wooden sculptures however speak to the viewer in a quieter way.
They are more reduced. Here the artist achieves the unachievable, he captures movements into static wooden objects, gestures become form.
Redden’s objects move and undulate gracefully like a cosine curve after a pint of Guinness. They vibrate, dance and twist through the exhibition space and activate the space around them.
Generally one could say that with his paintings and sculptures Mark Redden involves the viewer into a very creative and stimulating way of perception. What more can one ask for? Task completed.

words by Paul Pretzer