Per Huttner
dal 4/5/2007 al 19/5/2007
Segnalato da
4/5/2007
Per Huttner
Galleri Skarstedt, Stockolm
Travelling and exploring the local cuisines on his journeys remain central to the artist's practice, something expressing his idea about humanity and spirituality. The installation presented is made up of white men's clothing, boarding cards, maps, light bulbs and a series of drawings made especially for the occasion. On view also 4 photographs taken in Spain this winter.
Illuminating the Inside(out)
Galleri Skarstedt will present the second solo exhibition by Per Hüttner at the Gallery. The exhibition is inaugurated by a performance Saturday May 5 at 4.30 pm.
A Swedish artist currently based in Paris, Hüttner was brought up in Sweden and has since lived longer times in Berlin, London and Los Angeles. He takes inspiration from the human warmth and spiritual depth of the cinema of the 1970’s and artists such as Yves Klein, Francisco Goya and in his youth and recently in a very different manner by Joseph Beuys with whom he shares the belief that art can and should change our lives and society.
Hüttner has been greatly influenced by the history of performance in his photographic practice which implodes the boundaries between the staged and the documentary. With the performance “Traces of a Permanent Rebirth” at Bonniers Konsthall in September 2006 he started making performances again after a 15 year break from the medium.
The opening performance will take place within an installation created by the artist and addresses the possibility of finding illumination and spiritual qualities within the human body and the digestive tract in particular. Travelling and exploring the local cuisines on his journeys remain central to the artist’s practice, something which is tied into both the performance his idea about humanity, spirituality and the sculptural work. The installation is made up of white men’s clothing, boarding cards, maps, light bulbs and a series of drawings made especially for the occasion.
Hüttner will also show four photographs taken in Spain this winter. They were shot at night and with several minutes long exposure times to make them dreamlike and poetic. The images mean nothing beyond themselves, and at the same time they express so much that it is not possible to grasp their final meaning. The photographs search another kind of beauty - where life can teach us everything that we need to know. To appreciate this beauty we need to remember that that knowledge of life can and will most probably come from the most unexpected and unforeseen angle and when we least anticipate it.
Galleri Skarstedt
c/o Konstnärshuset Smålandsgatan 7 - Stockholm