Anner Cohen “Extensions”

ATM Gallery NYC

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ATM Gallery presents Extensions – a series of paintings by Anner Cohen.

Anner Cohen’s body of work emerges from an encounter between his material and emotional world with his extended being in virtual space.

Cohen’s oil paintings are the result of a multi-stage process, which begins with staging and photographing scenes of food, rotten fruit or human figures. The photographs are then manipulated in a code-based image processing program. Metadata, scraped from social media and other corners of the internet are inserted into the program, altering their structure, saturation and texture of the original image.

What emerges from this process finds new life in his paintings. Thick application of color and semi-transparent glazing, reminiscent of the Old Masters, collide with his altered images, recreating the materiality of objects lost in the digital render. The spatiality of the paintings challenges their physical boundaries, pushing against the confines of their canvas. Fissures of negative space slice through his jigsaw-like compositions. At times, they delineate the objects, in others, they disrupt it and reconfigure the image.

Cohen presents us with a fluid and fractured world that endlessly tries to reorganize itself. Moments from his personal life, art history and the digital realm are entangled in his re-engineered subject matter. What was once invisible penetrates into the realm of perception, where it is simultaneously remembered and dismembered, caught in a chaos of code and form.
Anner Cohen (b. 1997) is a self-taught artist based in Berlin. This is the first solo exhibition of his work