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9/1/2008

Anna Bjerger

ALP / Peter Bergman, Stockholm

ALP / Peter Bergman is pleased to present Anna Bjerger’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Bjerger’s imagery derives from out of date reference books, travel journals and instruction manuals. Through the years she has been collecting images to be able to return to this source at any time. Clearly the material has lost its primary purpose but it is in these faded pictures that our trivial history is to be found.

Through the process of painting these images they undergo a transformation revealing new and surprising qualities and readings. The new context is important to Bjerger as it releases the images allowing a more intimate response. The painting is intuitive and often one image relates to the next. Composition and motif is being defined by openness and through the visible brush marks we become aware of the immediacy of the paintings.

The paintings that are being shown here render the feeling of being in direct contact with nature. The starting point is the four elements, an obvious universal notion that is open to interpretation. The images have an exploratory quality. Water feels wet and the fire warm the physical elements in the painting are being reflected in the motif. ‘Everything’ portrays what we already know, but don’t always see.

Anna Bjerger was born in 1973,she studied painting at Central St Martins School of Art in London and the Royal College of Art, London. Solo exhibitions include portrait of a man, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago 2007, Angels in your beer Chapter, Cardiff 2004 and Pump House Gallery, London 2004, The Unexplained, Max Wigram Gallery, London 2004. Group exhibitions include Citadel, David Risley Gallery, London 2007, Selected Gallery Artists, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago 2007, Pictures of you ALP/Peter Bergman, Stockholm 2006.

Opening reception January 10, 5-8 PM

ALP / Peter Bergman
Torsgatan 41n - Stockholm

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