Olle Baertling
dal 29/6/2011 al 18/8/2011
Segnalato da
29/6/2011
Olle Baertling
Galerie Nordenhake AB, Stockholm
To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Olle Baertling, the gallery presents works from it's collection. The exhibition contains a selection of paintings starting from 1950, through to the final painting Baertling made before his death, Ksard from 1980, in addition to one sculpture and a group of graphic works. The artist developed his Open Form after contact with the new Concrete Art movement.
To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Olle Baertling, Galerie Nordenhake presents an exhibition of works from it’s collection. Since Baertling’s first solo show with the gallery in 1976 it has continued to expose his work to both a Swedish and an international audience. The exhibition contains a selection of paintings starting from 1950, through to the final painting Baertling made before his death, Ksard from 1980, in addition to one sculpture and a group of graphic works.
Olle Baertling developed his Open Form after contact with the new Concrete Art movement in Paris in the late 1940’s. By the mid 50’s his Open Form had become refined and absolute. The diagonal lines that define his triangular fields of color converge off the extremities of the canvas, suggesting a scale that cannot be contained by the confines of such a surface. For Baertling this was a proposal of an infinite, cosmic scale.
The open forms, compositions and colors he presented were not to relate to anything outside the painting – nothing from “real life.” In the same way, the titles of his works later became linguistic constructions – invented words. Baertling’s individual language proposes dynamic forces that suggest an optimism for the future.
Olle Baertling was born in Halmstad, Sweden in 1911. He spent the majority of his career in Stockholm, where he died in 1981. Since the 1950s, Baertling's work has been presented in many solo and group exhibitions, both in Sweden and internationally. In 1954, he represented Sweden at the Venice Biennial. He was honoured with several important prizes, including the award of the 7th Sao Paulo Biennale in 1963. In 1981, Malmö Konsthall and Stockholm's Moderna Museet compiled the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Baertling's work. In 2001, Kunsthalle Kiel presented a major retrospective. In 2008 Moderna Museet Stockholm presented a new survey exhibition of Baertling’s work which later traveled to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, founded by Donald Judd.
Image: Ksard, 1980, oil and damar on canvas, 195x97 cm
Galerie Nordenhake AB, Stockholm
Hudiksvallsgatan 8, SE-113 30 Stockholm
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