Anna Bjerger
dal 17/11/2010 al 22/12/2010
Segnalato da
17/11/2010
Anna Bjerger
Paradise Row, London
A Perfect Throw. a new series of paintings by the swedish painter. She paints images taken from old travel books, DIY and gardening books and photographic manuals, largely bought in charity shops and jumble sales. Dated and discarded, images denuded of their original functionality are strangely elevated through the transformative process of painting.
Paradise Row proudly presents A Perfect Throw, a new series of paintings by the
Swedish painter, Anna Bjerger.
Bjerger paints images taken from old travel books, DIY and gardening books and
photographic manuals, largely bought in charity shops and jumble sales. Dated and
discarded, images denuded of their original functionality are strangely elevated
through the transformative process of painting.
She picks out images that, for her, manifest "a boundless quality as well as
compositional strength." That boundless quality stems, in part, from the mixture of
anonymity and familiarity that characterizes the subjects of the original
photographs and allows countless narratives to be sensed, imagined and projected; a
day on the beech, a photo-shoot, a magic trick at a children's party...
Boundless and frozen. The nature of photography carries with it an implication of
the ephemeral and painting, the illusion of permanence. Bjerger's paintings carry a
soft and subtle tension between these two imagined opposites with them.
Above all however, the subject of the work is the experience and practice of
painting itself. As Bjerger explains, "Through painting I am able to shift the
hierarchy in the image and bring forward a different version of the recorded
instant. The physicality of the paint, the variable structure of the surface and the
focus on dimension serves to intensify the experience of looking."
Private View: Thursday 18 November 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Paradise Row Gallery
74 Newman Street, London
Gallery hours: Mon - Fri: 10 am - 6 p
Thurs: 10 am - 8pm, Sat: 10am - 6pm
admission free