Tom Friedman
05 Feb - 06 Jun 2010
© Tom Friedman
"Green Demon" (2008, photo: Rob McKeever), "Monster Collage" and "Hollow Man Offering Nothing to No One" (2008, photo: Justin Kemp).
"Green Demon" (2008, photo: Rob McKeever), "Monster Collage" and "Hollow Man Offering Nothing to No One" (2008, photo: Justin Kemp).
TOM FRIEDMAN
"Up in the Air"
5 Feb – 6 June, 2010
Tom Friedman is known to many as the frustrated art student, who in 1988 emptied his studio of everything and painted it white, an artistic tabula rasa. This act was the catalyst which marked the beginning of a thriving artistic expression and formed the basis for a practice that has secured his stardom on the international art scene.
Tom Friedman is an inquiring artist who follows his own precise logic and creates astonishing objects out of everyday materials. Like an alchemist he extracts the essentials of an object and then proceeds to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary. He tries to understand the world through his work and each new piece represents a new discovery; an artistic process that is playful as well as serious and intelligent.
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is proud to present Tom Friedman’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. Specially for this show he has for the past year been producing a new piece entitled Up In The Air, which summarizes Friedman’s work and his artistic perspective on contemporary reality. In this comprehensive exhibition we will also be presenting key works from his production to the present day.
Tom Friedman (born 1965) is an American conceptual artist, who had his major breakthrough in the early 1990’s. Since then he has won international critical and public acclaim and his career has been replete with solo exhibitions at spaces such as South London Gallery, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Fondazione Prada, Milan, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as well as the São Paulo Biennale.
"Up in the Air"
5 Feb – 6 June, 2010
Tom Friedman is known to many as the frustrated art student, who in 1988 emptied his studio of everything and painted it white, an artistic tabula rasa. This act was the catalyst which marked the beginning of a thriving artistic expression and formed the basis for a practice that has secured his stardom on the international art scene.
Tom Friedman is an inquiring artist who follows his own precise logic and creates astonishing objects out of everyday materials. Like an alchemist he extracts the essentials of an object and then proceeds to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary. He tries to understand the world through his work and each new piece represents a new discovery; an artistic process that is playful as well as serious and intelligent.
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is proud to present Tom Friedman’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. Specially for this show he has for the past year been producing a new piece entitled Up In The Air, which summarizes Friedman’s work and his artistic perspective on contemporary reality. In this comprehensive exhibition we will also be presenting key works from his production to the present day.
Tom Friedman (born 1965) is an American conceptual artist, who had his major breakthrough in the early 1990’s. Since then he has won international critical and public acclaim and his career has been replete with solo exhibitions at spaces such as South London Gallery, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Fondazione Prada, Milan, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as well as the São Paulo Biennale.