Mathias Malling Mortensen’s series of 12 monotypes deepened the artist’s delicate investigation into materiality. By using the canvas rather than paper for those graphic works Mathias Malling Mortensen was able to show the brushmark with which he built his compositions, keeping a sketch-like freshness. Running the oil painted copper plate, through the press allowed the colours to mix and merge in a new way. The hybrid nature of the project plays with the ambivalence between the use of a traditional printing technique and the unorthodox approach to the choice of canvas as the work’s media. Stretched on a stretcher and framed the spectator is invited to look at a graphic work presented as a painting.
