Cut my legs off and call me shorty!
dal 16/6/2009 al 18/9/2009
Segnalato da
16/6/2009
Cut my legs off and call me shorty!
Tensta Konsthall, Spanga
A project that explores elements of humour and surprise. The Swedish based artists included work with ideas and ways of making that force us to look and look again. The display is in two parts: there are 5 artists showing in the main hall who work with photography, painting and illustration. The second part of the exhibition is a selection of Swedish video art curated by Gunnel Pettersson in association with Film Form and includes works from 1962 - 2009.
Cut my legs off and call me shorty! is an exhibition that explores elements of humour and surprise. The five Swedish based artists included work with ideas and ways of making that force us to look and look again.
Opening at June 17th!
Exhibition period: June 17th - September 19th 2009
Cut my legs off and call me shorty! is an exhibition that explores elements of humour and surprise. The thirteen Swedish based artists included work with ideas and ways of making that force us to look and look again. We may think we have understood an image but when we allow ourselves a closer examination there are unexpected twists, shocking details, hidden pratfalls, double and triple meanings.
The exhibition is in two parts there are 5 artists showing in the main hall who work with photography, painting and illustration:
* Susanna Hesselberg
* Ulf Lundin
* Emma Rendel
* Ulla West
* Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Ulla West uses a mix of old and new technology in her work including fine art
techniques, craft practices as well as new media. Her methods are documentary,
they are investigations related to phenomenon, situations or things that just occur.
Associations and unexpected ideas are important in the process. Often her art
projects start as an investigation and documentation with the purpose to relate to
a certain situation or as a way to handle everyday life. The work itself often leads
to unexpected materials, ideas and collaborations and the projects can last for years.
Kristoffer Zetterstrand has always worked in painting and more recently has begun to
experiment with virtual still lifes and how two-dimensionality works in relation to
computer generated 3D worlds. He is interested in spaces that are created online, in
computer games and 3D programs - particularly when illusions begin to break down
and the underlying construction is revealed - like when the program encounters a
bug. His work has also found him looking at the relations of virtuality to the iconic
works of Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini and other renaissance artists.
Emma Rendel is one of the most distinctive graphic artists working today. Her graphic
novels have been published by her own publishing company Awkwardbooks and by
Jonathan Cape in England and Kartago in Sweden. Her storytelling finds its origins
in fragments she overhears, memories from childhood, and stories that people tell
her. Her narratives are often dark and filled with a morbid curiosity as well as a
cutting sense of humour.
Ulf Lundin’s work can be characterised by an extreme attention to detail and
a fascination with how the process of photography captures a moment.
Whilst the contents of his work may often been seen as mundane or commonplace
the works become magical, extraordinary, fantastic and painterly.
In a similar vein his videos deal with daily routines and every day social conditions
raised to a level of the remarkable and the peculiar.
Susanna Hesselberg originally trained as a painter and she brings much of that
attention and aesthetic sensibility to her photographic work. Often working with
careful constructed staging and manufactured props Hesselberg uses the power
of photographic manipulation but without resorting to computer graphics.
The results are often disturbing disruptions in the flow of everyday life often
focusing on interpersonal relationships and the body.
The second part of the exhibition is a selection of Swedish video art curated by Gunnel Pettersson in association with Film Form and includes works from 1962 - 2009 and includes:
Henrik Andersson, Reuben Henry, Tove Kjellmark, Karin Kihlberg, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Malin Skjöld, Per Teljer, Christine Ödlund
We have taken the following quote by American writer E.B. White as good advice for the show.
“Analyzing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it”.
Opening at June 17th
Tensta Konsthall
Box 4001, SE-163 04 Spanga - Stockholm
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 12.00–17.00