V1 SALON is pleased to present
Sometime in the Spring
Somewhere in the Fall
An exhibition cycle by Mads Bryld.
In Mads Bryld’s new paintings, the seasons transition. Subtly and reserved, winter turns to spring, and summer stretches lazily into fall - like a cat waking up from a nap. If you don’t spend much time in nature, the change of seasons can feel abrupt - almost violent. You feel unprepared. If you do spend time in nature, cultivated or wild, in your garden, in the cemetery, the forest or in the mountains, you feel the constant and infinite cycle, the everlasting transition. You sense the minute change in temperature from one morning to the next, how the April sun has moved slightly higher above the oak gathering strength, to step out of winter and leaf out.
Bryld’s oil paintings embody this wonderful super slow cycle of everything. The mechanics of existence. In flux. The existential poetry of photosynthesis. The current that ripples the surface. Vibrating. The Buddhist cycle of the falling leaf. We will meet again. Outer landscapes become inner landscapes. Nature has a firm grip on us as we realise that we’re made of the same particles that are dancing in the sunlight. The same matter. Interconnected. If it sounds too good to be true - it’s not. It’s pure observation and painting. Maybe a slight step ahead of consciousness. In the realm of the intuitive.
Text Jesper Elg
Mads Bryld, born 1991, lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent exhibitions include: Landscapes, V1 Gallery & Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark 2025. Fortune Teller, V1 SALON, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024. Catching Currents, Chasing Ducks, V1 SALON, Denmark 2024. Onions, group exhibition, OUTPOST, Copenhagen, Denmark 2023; Bookbar, Paris, France 2023; Psyche, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022, and A Mon Avis Vol. IIII, group exhibition 2022. The second exhibition in the cycle Somewhere in Fall will be presented in the fall of 2025 in V1 SALON. A catalogue joining the two exhibitions will be presented in conjunction with the opening.