John Kørner’s intensely hued images mingle narrative and geopolitical content with a flowing gestural abstraction, playing watery chroma off against piercing white fields. Despite the works’ formally seductive chroma and mark placement, societal and ecological questions are a priority.
Sites of food acquisition necessary for consumption and nourishment are of great interest, as well as how edible commodities are advertised. Glacial and mountainous landscapes with tiny traversing figures, climate change, warfare, fruit displayed in supermarkets, and the collecting of honey and apples are regular themes.
Typical Kørner artworks include Flooded Supermarket (2020), Out of the Darkness (2020), Lamella (2021), Men in a Group (2021), Fire in the Sky (2021), International Glacier (2022), Problems (2006), and The Guide (2006).
