Carin Ellberg
15 Jan - 15 Feb 2009
CARIN ELLBERG
Jan 15 - Feb 15, 2009
Following the landscape. Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present Carin Ellberg’s new solo Following the landscape (sketch above). The exhibition is Carin Ellberg’s fifth at the gallery and the opening takes place on Thursday, January 15th 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. in the joint opening of all the Norrtull galleries.
The point of departure of Carin Ellberg’s art is often waywardly constructed pictorial worlds, sometimes with motifs found in the home and the worlds of imagination of children. Her artistry is characterized by a unique exploration of not only shapes and ideas, but also of disparate materials such as coffee, silicone, tights and clothes. Her process is a flow of ideas and thoughts in an ongoing and unfinished transformation, and the “landscape” in the title can be interpreted as both a classical landscape, a pop cultural media landscape and as a mental flow of associations, where the obvious and the unconscious merge and where meanings and ideas are felt but are continually unreachable.
The exhibition consists of paintings as well as sculptures, which interact in a site specific installation. The paintings are transformed into sculptural objects occupying the room and approaching the sculptures. The walls are transformed into something else; it is unclear into what, a new wall, a painting, sculpture or an installation.
During the last years, Carin Ellberg has had solo shows at Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden, Aka Institute of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia and at the gallery Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece and has participated in group shows at the Swedish museums Alma Löv museum, Östra Ämtervik, Malmö Konstmuseum, Mjellby konstmuseum, Kulturhuset Stockholm, and at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. In 2005 she was awarded the sculpture prize Stora Skulpturpriset by Friends of Moderna Museet.
Please contact the gallery for more information and images. The exhibition runs through February 15th. The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 12 noon - 4 p.m.
Jan 15 - Feb 15, 2009
Following the landscape. Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present Carin Ellberg’s new solo Following the landscape (sketch above). The exhibition is Carin Ellberg’s fifth at the gallery and the opening takes place on Thursday, January 15th 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. in the joint opening of all the Norrtull galleries.
The point of departure of Carin Ellberg’s art is often waywardly constructed pictorial worlds, sometimes with motifs found in the home and the worlds of imagination of children. Her artistry is characterized by a unique exploration of not only shapes and ideas, but also of disparate materials such as coffee, silicone, tights and clothes. Her process is a flow of ideas and thoughts in an ongoing and unfinished transformation, and the “landscape” in the title can be interpreted as both a classical landscape, a pop cultural media landscape and as a mental flow of associations, where the obvious and the unconscious merge and where meanings and ideas are felt but are continually unreachable.
The exhibition consists of paintings as well as sculptures, which interact in a site specific installation. The paintings are transformed into sculptural objects occupying the room and approaching the sculptures. The walls are transformed into something else; it is unclear into what, a new wall, a painting, sculpture or an installation.
During the last years, Carin Ellberg has had solo shows at Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden, Aka Institute of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia and at the gallery Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece and has participated in group shows at the Swedish museums Alma Löv museum, Östra Ämtervik, Malmö Konstmuseum, Mjellby konstmuseum, Kulturhuset Stockholm, and at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. In 2005 she was awarded the sculpture prize Stora Skulpturpriset by Friends of Moderna Museet.
Please contact the gallery for more information and images. The exhibition runs through February 15th. The gallery is open Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 12 noon - 4 p.m.