6 Svensker:

Artist:

Troels Melin, Anette Abrahamsson, Björn Ross, Eva Löfdahl, Leonard Forslund, Lars Nilsson 

Stalke Galleri, Vesterbrogade 15, Copenhagen

21.10 to 26.11.1988

City Art

Seen by Henrik Wivel

STALKE GALLERY, Vesterbrogade 15: Six Swedes. Melin, Abrahamsson, Ross, Löfdahl, Forslund & Nilsson.
Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Wednesday 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Until November 26.

In recent years, a number of young Swedish artists have settled in Denmark to work and study, attracted by - among other things - the higher spiritual level of art here in the country. No less than The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has drawn them like a magnet, where they have participated in and contributed to a qualified debate on the postmodern as an artistic expression form.

Six of these Swedes, who both exhibit here and live here, are currently represented with each of their works in Stalke Gallery's new and temporary location on Vesterbrogade. This includes Anette Abrahamsson, Bjørn Ross, Leonard Forslund, Eva Löfdahl, Lars Nilsson, and Truls Melin. They also present a small selection of the best of their Swedish colleagues' artistic experiments.

It has become clear in recent years that the early '80s frenzy of wild expressionism has been followed by a more controlled sobriety. Also here, new Swedish art shows a tendency towards a new form of constructivism where mental art becomes visible. Specifically, because this new art is sensitive, understated, and gentle in its aesthetic. It is a picture that connects art with the religious, the soulful, and the scientific.

Thus, Anette Abrahamsson's development is characteristic. She started as a passionate expressionist but today works in an interesting field between constructive and gentle, sensual painting. Evident in her current exhibition is her large black and white work, a strict geometric pattern that seems to hint at another reality - one that is yet to come.

Leonard Forslund also stands out, with his calligraphic art that shows a world of signs, letters, and blossoming threads emerging from otherwise entirely monochrome surfaces.

This new opening towards another world, a subdued and quiet cosmos, can also be seen, for example, in Bjørn Ross's painting universe, which these days can be visited not only at Stalke but also at Galleri Gari on Amager.

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