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4/5/2007

Karin Mamma Andersson

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Solo show

curated by Ann-Sofi Noring

Karin Mamma Andersson has rapidly emerged in recent years as one of Sweden’s most internationally famous artists. Her work has led to a renewed and intensified interest in the potential of painting. Born in Luleå in 1962, and raised amidst forests and art books, her work is imbued with beguiling narrative zest and frequent references to the stage and everyday settings as well as to works by other artists.

This exhibition, which comprises works from the past five years, is the artists largest exhibition to date, and gives visitors an opportunity to see works that are growing increasingly popular with collectors and museums all over the world. Karin Mamma Andersson won the Carnegie Art Award in 2005 and represented Sweden at the Venice Biennale in 2003.

Time and space are two different dimensions. In Karin Mamma Andersson’s works they concur. The pictorial plane is a stage for parallel developments in the painting’s own inherent logic. Touched by the Gods shows a museum shop familiar to any visitor to modern art museums. And yet unfamiliar, for a half-finished painting is leaned against the backdrop, and the shelves are stacked with paintings by the likes of Sidney Nolan and Peter Doig. At the far end, a couple are blandly perusing at a few faded posters, while two boys are standing in self-absorption, each on his own. But the pivotal point of the painting, apparently unseen by the couple and the boys, is an event sketched out on the floor. The stillness and the contemplative calm in the periphery of the room is contrasted with the dynamic movement of the floor. A hint of Ernst Josephson’s painting The Assassination of Riccio has invaded the canvas. It billows, flows, vibrates, images merge only to separate again, the gods run amok.

Moderna Museet
Island of Skeppsholmen - Stockholm

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