Lisa Jonasson
17 Aug - 02 Sep 2007
Lisa Jonasson
Drawings, Studio 3
August 17 – September 2 2007,
Opening: Thursday, 16. August 2007, 19 h
Lisa Jonasson's graphics, posters, comics, and drawings could, at first glance, be taken for the products of a naïve approach to art, because, in great detail and opulently, they mirror the variety of the world in vast ink panoramas. But at second glance, they are not archaic, but artistic research projects treating human states of emotion and their external manifestation, perception of oneself and others, and the collective's effects on the individual.
"Looking at Swedish artist Lisa Jonassons latest work, you get the feeling the picture is at struggle. Bodies, faces, styles, looks, and postures, every last detail seems to want to turn itself inside out, to almost escape from its own shape. You might enter the picture through some familiar detail: a hand... a horse...an eye, just to be sucked into unfamiliar loops with unsuspected associations and transformations. Converging with this distortion of motives, is a simultaneous distortion of the style: The endless flow of mutated faces and grotesque creatures, are depicted in a freaky mix of drawing styles, like some imaginary folk art from a culture yet to be invented." Matti Kallioinen
Drawings, Studio 3
August 17 – September 2 2007,
Opening: Thursday, 16. August 2007, 19 h
Lisa Jonasson's graphics, posters, comics, and drawings could, at first glance, be taken for the products of a naïve approach to art, because, in great detail and opulently, they mirror the variety of the world in vast ink panoramas. But at second glance, they are not archaic, but artistic research projects treating human states of emotion and their external manifestation, perception of oneself and others, and the collective's effects on the individual.
"Looking at Swedish artist Lisa Jonassons latest work, you get the feeling the picture is at struggle. Bodies, faces, styles, looks, and postures, every last detail seems to want to turn itself inside out, to almost escape from its own shape. You might enter the picture through some familiar detail: a hand... a horse...an eye, just to be sucked into unfamiliar loops with unsuspected associations and transformations. Converging with this distortion of motives, is a simultaneous distortion of the style: The endless flow of mutated faces and grotesque creatures, are depicted in a freaky mix of drawing styles, like some imaginary folk art from a culture yet to be invented." Matti Kallioinen