Provenance: David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen. Provenance: Private collection, Copenhagen. Acquired from the above in 2015.

In the series of large-scale works entitled ”Confessional”, Michael Simpson works with the confessional as a motif and theme. His idiom takes its starting point in a contemporary context, but he also finds inspiration and creates connections between different time periods’ artistic traditions, such as the Flemish Renaissance and the Baroque period. In the work here, the confessional becomes the focus of an investigation of modern spirituality – painted and processed in a strong minimalistic expression. The work can be seen as an investigation of the meeting between figuration and abstraction, space and surface.