Evert Lundquist
16 Jan - 11 Apr 2010
EVERT LUNDQUIST
Stockholm 16 January 2010 - 11 April 2010
Evert Lundquist (1904– 94) is a key figure in modern Swedish art, both as an artsist and a teacher. His debut was in 1934, and his career spans more than fifty years.
Curator: Fredrik Liew
In 1989, he was still presenting new work, demonstrating that although he was almost blind he not only continued to be a vigorous artist but also contributed new pieces to the understanding of his lifelong oeuvre. After his death, however, interest in Lundquist’s work waned. The lively discourse came to a halt and he was commonly regarded as a bourgeois artist who portrayed the light and timeless motifs in the classical tradition.
The idea behind this exhibition is to peel away then layer of “self-efidence” and established interpretations that have formed over the years. By focusing on the paintings themselves and on a new selection of works, Evert Lundquist emerges as an artist comprised of opposites. The works oscillate between abstraction/figurativeness, motif/process, monumentality/dissolution. Until now, the main theme of discussion has been Lundquist’s relationship to his forerunners in art, but his ambiguity, contradictoriness and openness place him firmly in his own era and point towards future generations and our own contemporary times.
Stockholm 16 January 2010 - 11 April 2010
Evert Lundquist (1904– 94) is a key figure in modern Swedish art, both as an artsist and a teacher. His debut was in 1934, and his career spans more than fifty years.
Curator: Fredrik Liew
In 1989, he was still presenting new work, demonstrating that although he was almost blind he not only continued to be a vigorous artist but also contributed new pieces to the understanding of his lifelong oeuvre. After his death, however, interest in Lundquist’s work waned. The lively discourse came to a halt and he was commonly regarded as a bourgeois artist who portrayed the light and timeless motifs in the classical tradition.
The idea behind this exhibition is to peel away then layer of “self-efidence” and established interpretations that have formed over the years. By focusing on the paintings themselves and on a new selection of works, Evert Lundquist emerges as an artist comprised of opposites. The works oscillate between abstraction/figurativeness, motif/process, monumentality/dissolution. Until now, the main theme of discussion has been Lundquist’s relationship to his forerunners in art, but his ambiguity, contradictoriness and openness place him firmly in his own era and point towards future generations and our own contemporary times.