ROMULUS x THE ARMORY SHOW, SEPTEMBER 24–27, 2026ROMULUS x THE ARMORY SHOW, SEPTEMBER 24–27, 2026
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ROMULUS x THE ARMORY SHOW, SEPTEMBER 24–27, 2026ROMULUS x THE ARMORY SHOW, SEPTEMBER 24–27, 2026
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Mads Bryld, The night has opened my eyes

Mads BryldThe night has opened my eyes, 2026

Oil, rabbit skin glue on linen in floating stained oak frame

82 5/8 x 55 1/8 in

About the artist

, born in 1991, lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an architect by education and worked as a landscape architect for five years at leading studios in Copenhagen (2020–2025). He now focuses on his artistic practice, where his oil paintings exist in a state of constan transition, moving fluidly between figuration and abstraction. Light appears to drift across volatile, liquid surfaces, causing images to emerge, dissolve, and reappear through subtle shifts in perception. The works evoke landscapes and sceneries that feel familiar yet cannot be placed geographically, recognized intuitively rather than consciously. Distortions of scal and cropping create an uncanny sense of presence, where past, present, and future seem to coexist. Nature in Bryld’s paintings is neither idealized nor romanticized. It is presented as an ongoing dynamic cycle of life, death, and renewal, mirroring the human condition itself. These fluid compositions invite the viewer into an active encounter, where object and subject converge and meaning remains in motion. The paintings function as quiet, vibrating meditations on transformation, continuously changing with those who engage them.

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