"The whole creation process is so interesting to me, because even though I'm doing it, I'm not controlling it."
Eric Mangen's powerful, abstract and gestural approach to painting is very much about movement and energy. His body of work is close to action painting, and generates a dynamic and rhythmic yet poetical and sculptural body of work.
With complete body-effort, the artist sprays and pours paint on his canvases. He covers them with details, characteristic brushstrokes, oilstick elements, with which he likes to accentuate his canvases.
The result is powerful, attracting the attention of the viewer from a distance, after which they lose themselves in the details the closer they get.