Christian Achenbach seems to possess an ability to see the things that exists beyond the emmediate appearances – an ability that enables him to depict a scene, not only as it is visually perceived, but also as it is felt an experienced. Hazes of colours and brushstrokes seem to give form to the formless and indescribable mood we often describe as the atmosphere or the ambiance of a given situation. Christian Achenbach creates a momentary materialisation, an ectoplasm, of the things and states of mind that normaly aren’t possible to systematize and to give shape: that which can be determined as the irrational or extra-rational, the ephemeral and immaterial aspects of lived experience.
By: Marie Nipper, curator at AROS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum