On the top floor of the Kode Lysverket, Bergen, Callum Innes presents Cadmium Orange / Red Violet / Lamp Black, a selection of works chosen and created specifically for this space. The exhibition includes two site-specific paintings on the wall, a selection of oil paintings, and a series of 40 watercolours. A new light installation will also be installed on the façade of the museum.

"I will show a new Monologue painting: This comes from a series I made 15 years ago, which I have recently returned to. They use exploration of process, layering, and the transformative nature of paint. They come from a body of work which deal with paintings having their own intrinsic history. They are about a formed landscape and I felt it was appropriate for Bergen – as the meaning in English is Mountain.

"The watercolours deal with light and internal space (...). The works will be installed in a salon style giving each work its own space. To frame the works I have asked the poet Tom Clark to write me three syllable poems, which will be placed within the installation." — Callum Innes

Callum Innes work can be seen as an on-going exploration into the possibilities of painting, aware, but uninhibited by the history of the medium.

Using the language of the monochrome, his paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, painting and “un-painting” by removing sections of colour from the canvas with turpentine.

In all his work Innes brings the potential of alchemy to abstract painting, holding a line between control and chaos.

Most known for his oil paintings on canvas, Innes has worked in parallel with exquisite series of works on paper, as well as lightinstallations.