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Sigrid Sandström explores the notion of site as a concept, as well as a space of emotional and physical experience. The ever-changing relationship between a painting and its context, the painter and her surroundings, and the viewer and her conditions are pivotal concerns in Sandström’s practice. Her paintings…
Kategorier: Konst
Carin Ellberg s flowing and hanging figures and objects are articulated in series and variations, where a certain laconic absurdism is formulated through highly personal expression. Ellberg has become known for her interest in everyday life, reflected in her use of domestic, simple materials such as coffee,…
The meagre materials contrast with the richness suggested in their multiplicity. An almost exalted merging of materials including textile scraps, coloured and dyed paper, sheets of painted paper and bits of labels and fragments torn out of Italian Vogue, perhaps a few seemingly forgotten chalk stumps. Add shellac,…
Scenography is not an autonomous art form. Its significance and capacity to visualise emerges through interaction with the actors on stage, and is preceded by the collaboration with directors and other artists involved in creating a performance. Therein lies its expressive complexity – and the challenge for the…
Kategorier: Konst
Frank Bowling started as a figurative painter but he quickly moved towards larger and ever more complex abstract pieces. Influenced by his interest in the principles of mathematics and symmetry as well as experiments with staining, pouring and layering, his ambitious paintings are known for their distinctive textured…
Every artwork is the first and last of its kind. Nothing happens the same way twice. But if this is the case, then what limits can we impose on our understanding of the historical development of art? The poles in our conceptual schema of the development of art are analogous to human life, which is placed between two…
Maria Friberg’s work is characterised by her great interest in societal issues and a desire to depict the phenomena of contemporary life. Narratives about mans place in a world where the power of nature and culture is difficult to master emerge in her carefully staged images, the production of which often…
Fotografen Anders Schönborg kom i kontakt med Angelica sommaren 2013. Då var hon 36 år och döende. Läkarna hade något år tidigare sagt att de inte kunde hejda den cancer som hade brett ut sig i Angelicas ansikte. Genom bild och text vill Anders Schönborg berätta om Angelicas liv ett liv som försvarslös och utsatt.…
Kategorier: Konst
Kategorier: Icke-grafisk konst Konst Konst: teman och motiv Konstformer Målarkonst Särskilda konstnärer Skulptur
Denna rikt illustrerade publikation har utgivits i samband med den uppmärksammade konstnären Cecilia Edefalks omfattande separatutställning på Prins Eugens Waldemarsuddes hösten 2016. Utställningen, som är den första retrospektiven med Edefalks egensinniga och djupt personliga konstnärskap sedan 1999, bär titeln…
Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff’s images are often based on the themes of spatiality, psychoanalysis, crime photography and global capitalism. She belongs to the generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s, inspired visually by postmodernist art and theory and with a profound interest in the…
Kategorier: Konst
Imagining the Audience – Viewing Positions in Artistic and Curatorial Practice Hur föreställer sig konstnärer och curatorer publiken i sitt arbete? Hur väver de in bilden av den enskilda åskådarens mentala, kroppsliga och känslomässiga upplevelse i produktionen av konsthändelsen och på vilka sätt påverkar dessa…
The growing flow of digital culture depends on the hidden protocols of its underlying systems. To explore how interfacing shapes spectatorship online, this pioneering study pinpoints experiences of flow through the friction of photo-based glitch art by Phillip Stearns, Rosa Menkman, and Evan Meaney. Homing in on the…
Kategorier: Konst
INSIDE: Axelsson. Bohlin. Theselius.
INSIDE är en bok om tre av Sveriges största inredningsarkitekter: Åke Axelsson, Jonas Bohlin och Mats Theselius. I text och bild presenteras tre arkitekter som inte i första hand utformar hus eller byggnader. De bygger sina miljöer inifrån och ut istället för tvärt om, med…
Kategorier: Konst
Esther Shalev-Gerzs art has long been at the forefront of debates regarding participation, citizenship, cultural memory, and the role of the artist in society. Her practice has consistently confronted many of the most profound ethical questions of our time regarding the politics of representation, memorialization, and…
Maria Friberg s color photographs and videos are vivid and lush, and at times exceptionally painterly, yet they are also unsettling and coolly provocative. Reversing centuries of what has often been called a male gaze, Friberg s female gaze often captures smartly attired men in unexpectedly solemn, vulnerable, and…
Kategorier: Konst
Kategorier: Konst
MADE IN MIND Myths and Realities of the Contemporary Artist Editor MARTA GNYP Genius, bohemian, social rebel, moral provocateur, charismatic visionary… The artist has always been surrounded by enchanting myths. Today, in a globalized world, images and information are easily visible and accessible, which in part…
Lotta Antonsson’s work recalls her fascination with the late 1960s and 70s, in a style where documentary and fiction blur in a merging of social and sexual revolutions. From a process that utilizes techniques of collage and montage there emerges a personal way of looking at the ephemeral nature of things, whether…
The Shift takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the world of contemporary art. While analyzing the motives and behavior of internationally operating collectors, it explains the current popularity of contemporary art and discloses the unwritten rules, active networks, and persistent myths of the rapidly…