Paul Kooiker
dal 4/10/2002 al 9/11/2002
Segnalato da
4/10/2002
Paul Kooiker
Roger Bjorkholmen Galleri, Stockholm
Out of focus and filled with warm dappled light, Paul Kooiker's photos relates to impressionist painting. His subjects, nude women in landscape, remind us of the importance of the female nude through out art history.
'Hunting & Fishing'
October 5 - November 9
Opening October 5, 1 - 5 pm
Roger Björkholmen Galleri is proud to present the first exhibition of Paul Kooiker in Scandinavia.
Out of focus and filled with warm dappled light, Paul Kooiker's photos
relates to impressionist painting. His subjects, nude women in landscape,
remind us of the importance of the female nude through out art history; from
Venus, nymphs and madonnas to bathers, odalisques and prostitutes.
The
subject also refers to Bernini's Daphne, chased by Apollo, who escapes her
pursuer by turning into a laurel tree. In a Scandinavian context the
connection to Anders Zorn (1860 - 1920) is clear.
In the series "Hunting and Fishing" Kooiker's nymphs turn their bodies and
faces away from the camera, away from the viewer - who is forced to play the
role of the voyeur.
Like sirens they lure the viewer into the image, or do
they try to escape him ? Kooiker borrows these powerful archetypes, or
perhaps clichés, from art history, mythology and media, and bring them new
life. Are we watching the goddess of hunt (Diana) or the hunted (Daphne) ?
Roger Björkholmen Galleri
Karlavägen 24
114 31 Stockholm
Ph. + 46 8 611 26 30