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Andreas
Eriksson, Sweden
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1.2 - 1.14, 2004
Andreas Eriksson is a young artist
who is unusually mature and free in his art. He works
parallel at painting and with works on paper and moves
freely between styles and artistic temperament. In the
exhibition we see watercolours done in very different
styles of expression and also works that are leftover
fragments of the working process itself. His works,
painted on hard cardboard, are abstract and very flowing
in expression, full of emotion and warmth.
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Carl-Henning
Pedersen, Denmark
21.3 - 2.5, 2004
In the art of Carl-Henning Pedersen (born
1913) we find ourselves immersed in a very weird pictorial
world of birds, fishes, ships, worms and other creatures,
in a setting all his own. The links to a child's visions
and creativity are striking. Carl-Henning Pedersen was
an active member of the well known Cobra group of Danish
artists, founded by Asger Jorn among others. This movement
placed the spontaneity and expressive power of colour
in centre stage. Their subjects were derived from primitive
art. Carl-Henning Pedersen's watercolours are painted
in strong, bright colours in a context rich in feeling.
This exhibition of his works concentrates on the period
from the late 1930s to the early 50s.
The works are on loan from the Carl-Henning Pedersen
and Else Alfelt Museum at Herning, Denmark. |
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Else Alfelt,
Denmark
21.3 - 2.5, 2004
The work of Else Alfelt (1910-74) has
to do with colour, its intensity and power. Colour is
the means by which she builds up her compositions in
the form of prisms and parallel lines. Natural scenery
is central to her works symbolised by mountain peaks,
the sun and moon, but also by variations in weather
and the shifting light which transforms everything.
This exhibition is mainly devoted to certain of her
travels which proved significant to the development
of her art: in 1947, for example, she went to Swedish
Lapland, a journey which opened her eyes to mountain
scenery, she travelled to Norway and Iceland in 1948,
to Tunisia and Morocco in 1963 and 1964, and in 1967
she journeyed to Japan. Her encounter with Japanese
calligraphy and culture led to her artistic efforts
combining to form a single unity and culminated in a
state of poetic harmony.
The works are on loan from the Carl-Henning Pedersen
and Else Alfelt Museum at Herning, Denmark. |
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| Anders Zorn, Ripples, 1887 |
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| Anders Zorn, Sweden |
15.5 - 26.9, 2004 |
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This summer 2004
the Nordic Watercolour Museum presents an exhibition
of some sixty watercolours by the Swedish artist
Anders Zorn. Included are both well known and
unfamiliar works, the majority painted during
the initial intensive phase of his artistic career.
Anders Zorn was famed and internationally successful
even during his lifetime. His career and life
story are remarkable and many are the tales concerning
this illegitimate son born to a girl from the
Swedish province of Dalecarlia and a German brewer.
His watercolours bring us in close contact with
this artist who impressed all with his eagle eye
and skilful hand. We can trace his development
from the work which made his name, painted while
still at the academy, to the glittering light
paintings of the close of the 19th century. Until
as late as 1887 Anders Zorn worked almost exclusively
in watercolour and mastered the technique to perfection.
He established at an early stage the subjects
he was to work with throughout his life. The exhibition
offers handsome society portraits, depictions
of the life of the common people and studies of
women in settings of natural scenery. Also here
are numerous sea studies, both fleeting impressions
and careful observations in which Anders Zorn
reveals that he never tired of the meeting of
water, sky and light.
The works on show in this exhibition are borrowed
from the Zorn collections at Mora, Sweden, from
Statens Museum for Kunst at Copenhagen, the Nationalmuseum
in Stockholm and the Göteborgs konstmuseum.
Also from the collection during the summer. |
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Lena Mattsson,
Sweden |
10.10 - 28.11, 2004 |
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Lena Mattsson's
exhibition Beyond the Surface raises and spotlights
human questions. What lies hidden behind the perfect
surface? Nothing is what it seems to be. Is all
we see but a projection of our own experiences?
The exhibition presents a highly charged confrontation
between two widely different means of expression
- film and traditional watercolour technique.
The films and paintings are inspired both by remarkable
and fearful events in the artist's own life and
by folk tales and legends from the Swedish province
of Bohuslän. The films will be projected onto
stone and onto large framed watercolour paper
in which the watercolour paintings serve as reflections
and mirror images of reality and of the films.
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Aqua
Forte |
5.12
2004 - 30.1 2005 |
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Eleven
female artists from the collection. |
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Sólveig
Adelsteinsdottir IS
Vanessa Baird NO
Line Bergseth NO
Ann-Katrin Dolven NO
Saara Ekström FIN
Carin Ellberg SVE |
Gunilla Hansson SVE
The Icelandic Love corp. IS
Elina Merenmies FIN
Ann-Sofi Sidén SVE
Mari Sunna FIN |
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