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30/10/2002

Julie Roberts and Johan Nobell

Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

We are very proud to present a two persons show with new works by Julie Roberts (UK) and Johan Nobell (Swe). This will be Julie Roberts' second show at the gallery and Johan Nobell's first exhibition in Stockholm.

The artists met while attending the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York last year and the idea of exhibiting together comes from their mutual interest in painting,(art)history and the detail.

Julie Roberts (born 1963 in UK, lives in USA and UK) has recently been seen at the XXV biennial of Sao Paulo, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, the Hirshorn Museum, Washington DC, USA and Indianapolis Art Museum, USA. Julie Roberts has always had a fascination for 18th and 19th century European history. Highly charged images of historical events have been a continuing interest and inspiration in her paintings. The works Detached #1950 and Victoriana come from a new series of paintings of doll's houses. The doll's house is an exact replica of an actual building, with a tiny element of narrative given added significance when expanded to a larger scale. Lushly painted in oils, the house floats on its own blanket of colour. The doll's have a peculiar countenance, the porcelain faces and period haircuts appear so life-like as to prompt a double take on scenes that are tenderly considered studies in social anthropology. Drawing has become increasingly important to Julie Roberts as it offers a further concentration on achieving insight through careful study of the particular. We will show one suite of four large-scale drawings meticulously executed in graphite on paper, taken from one-inch clay replicas of actual traditional crofters cottages. Collectively titled Dysfunctional family, the series questions the component parts of British identity perceived through the accepted clichéd stereotypes of national traits. The other series is an earlier watercolour version, made in 2000 with the collective title A trip down memory lane.

Johan Nobell, (born 1963 in Sweden, lives in Stockholm) has recently been seen in On a Clear Day at Sophienholm, Denmark. He attended ISCP, New York in 2001 and graduated from Valand, Gothenburg in 1994. The last years he has been living in Denmark and New York where he also has been exhibiting his works. Johan Nobell's paintings often show fragments of surreal landscapes inhabited by objects that are recognizable but not definable. Small scaled and painted in bright oil colours the paintings both attract and irritate because of the difficulty in explaining what they actually represent. Orgiastic and apocalyptic scenes occur in the landscapes and Johan Nobell uses any element from the tradition of painting, abstract or figurative, that serves his purposes. We will show a group of new paintings together with some watercolours.

Image: a work by Julie Roberts

The show opens on Thursday Oct 31, between 5-8 pm. The gallery is open Tues-Fri 11-5, Sat 12-5. For further information or visuals please contact the gallery.

Andrehn-Schiptjenko
Markvardsgatan 2
Stockholm

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