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14/1/2005

Per Huttner

Galleri Skarstedt, Stockolm

Solo exhibition

Skarstedt's is proud to present Per Hüttner's first solo exhibition at the gallery and his first solo exhibition of new work in Stockholm since 1999.

Hüttner presents a new body of photographic work that focuses on the changes that the world is undergoing since the events of September eleven 2001. In keeping with his earlier work the images show the barefoot artist dressed in his trademark white clothing. Using a panoramic format the pictures are shot in busy urban settings around the globe such as shopping centres and train stations. They raise questions about the relationship between documentary and staged photographs. The artist himself becomes an indexal figure. His appearance along with the use of a few select objects (a suitcase, large sticks or flowers, candles and framed portraits), constitute a subtle shift in the context that totally change the meaning of a seemingly mundane setting to become one of lurking threats.

These strong and poetic images depict everyday life where consumerism is pivotal, but looming under the shadow of fear, grief and where human vulnerability is laid bare. Death and pain is always present, but not always in its physical form. They also become a metaphor for profound life changes and representing the possibility for hope, transformations and developments.

With this new work it becomes natural to make allusions to the autobiographical fact that Hüttner's father died in a car crash when he was four years old. In the photographs his personal struggle to deal with the painful events of the past is taken to a more general level. Grief and its representation in public spaces becomes one that encompasses all pain and each individual's struggle to deal with it. To serve this purpose Hüttner uses the formal inspiration of both 19th century romantic painting and ethnographic, anthropological and documentary photographs of the 20th century and the outcome is one of particular pertinence.

Per Hüttner is one of Sweden's most internationally acclaimed artists. He lives and works in Paris, France. He was trained at Konsthögskolan, Stockholm and at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. He has shown extensively in Europe, Northern America, Australia and Asia, most notably at Chisenhale Gallery, London, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain and the ICA in London.

Hüttner has published several books on contemporary art. A monograph on the artist was published in 2004 by Scottish artwriter Duncan McLaren and is available from the Gallery.

For more info contact Jean Skarstedt.

Galleri Skarstedt Riddargatan 70 - S-114 57 - Stockholm

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