Kristina Jansson
04 Oct - 12 Nov 2012
© Kristina Jansson
Cityscape, 2012
Oil on canvas
180 x 200 cm
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Beranger, Courtesy Andréhn-Schiptjenko.
Cityscape, 2012
Oil on canvas
180 x 200 cm
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Beranger, Courtesy Andréhn-Schiptjenko.
KRISTINA JANSSON
Zelig
4 October – 11 November 2012
Zelig, from German, blessed. An omnipresent person, a person who appears to be everywhere. Also distressed as the definition of the ”adaptable Jew”, title of Woody Allen movie from the 1983rd
Andréhn-Schiptjenko proudly announces Zelig, an exhibition with a new series of paintings by Kristina Jansson. The show opens on Thursday 4 October between 5-8 pm and runs through Sunday 11 November. Kristina Jansson’s (born 1967) work has recently been seen in exhibitions such as Genius Loci at Artipelag and Galerie Aronowitsch’ exhibition at the Royal Academy both in Stockholm. She was nominated for the Carnegie Art Award 2010.
Kristina Jansson sees her paintings strictly as a type of imaging which relates as a specific to all other images. The object ”painting” is a place in a protracted Now according to the artist. A painting does not depict a place or illustrate a narrative, it is the place and a constantly on-going event. This reasoning also provides the basis for how Kristina Jansson selects her models and motifs.
The new works shown at Andréhn-Schiptjenko gather around a contemporary agenda where the models come from many different forms of media. They have been selected because they are both singular while they also, together, embrace a larger idea. In her work, Jansson always seeks simultaneity between image, material, our present and the personal. She tries to respond freely to themes and techniques and adapts her way of painting in relation to the specific painting. There are traces of feminism, psychology or even politics in her work but what the paintings really are looking for is the personal and generic behind this. In her first exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Kristina Jansson has chosen to invite Jenny Magnusson (born 1970). She will show sculptural works presented in dialogue with Jansson’s paintings. Jenny Magnusson’s relationship to sculpture is disruptive to both form and content, and relates specifically to the exhibition’s title and theme. In her case, the sculpture itself is a fluctuating object that constantly changes and takes meaning from the room and its contents. She looks at her objects unaltered ingredients as pure material to be seen the same way we look at paintings in terms of colour, shape, the reflection or absorption and never as function.For further information and images please contact the gallery. Next exhibition: Tony Matelli, November 15, 2012
Zelig
4 October – 11 November 2012
Zelig, from German, blessed. An omnipresent person, a person who appears to be everywhere. Also distressed as the definition of the ”adaptable Jew”, title of Woody Allen movie from the 1983rd
Andréhn-Schiptjenko proudly announces Zelig, an exhibition with a new series of paintings by Kristina Jansson. The show opens on Thursday 4 October between 5-8 pm and runs through Sunday 11 November. Kristina Jansson’s (born 1967) work has recently been seen in exhibitions such as Genius Loci at Artipelag and Galerie Aronowitsch’ exhibition at the Royal Academy both in Stockholm. She was nominated for the Carnegie Art Award 2010.
Kristina Jansson sees her paintings strictly as a type of imaging which relates as a specific to all other images. The object ”painting” is a place in a protracted Now according to the artist. A painting does not depict a place or illustrate a narrative, it is the place and a constantly on-going event. This reasoning also provides the basis for how Kristina Jansson selects her models and motifs.
The new works shown at Andréhn-Schiptjenko gather around a contemporary agenda where the models come from many different forms of media. They have been selected because they are both singular while they also, together, embrace a larger idea. In her work, Jansson always seeks simultaneity between image, material, our present and the personal. She tries to respond freely to themes and techniques and adapts her way of painting in relation to the specific painting. There are traces of feminism, psychology or even politics in her work but what the paintings really are looking for is the personal and generic behind this. In her first exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Kristina Jansson has chosen to invite Jenny Magnusson (born 1970). She will show sculptural works presented in dialogue with Jansson’s paintings. Jenny Magnusson’s relationship to sculpture is disruptive to both form and content, and relates specifically to the exhibition’s title and theme. In her case, the sculpture itself is a fluctuating object that constantly changes and takes meaning from the room and its contents. She looks at her objects unaltered ingredients as pure material to be seen the same way we look at paintings in terms of colour, shape, the reflection or absorption and never as function.For further information and images please contact the gallery. Next exhibition: Tony Matelli, November 15, 2012