Sommer & Kohl

Andreas Eriksson
keinen blassen Schimmer


exhibition 25 April – 6 June 2009

Sommer & Kohl are pleased to present the first solo exhibition with new works by Andreas Eriksson (*1975, Björsäter, Sweden).

Inspiration and content for Andreas Eriksson's work derive from his experience of nature, as well as a subtle exploration of both his emotional reactions to it and his projections onto it.

In his shadow paintings, Eriksson combines the media of photography and painting. These pictures are based on photographic images taken by the artist lying on the sofa in the evening of the shadows cast on his living room wall by the headlamps of passing trucks. He then transfers the shapes of these shadows to aluminium using colour without a binder, before painting over the entire ground in one colour, mostly grey. This monochrome overpainting dissolves the unbound colour and the shapes of the shadows bleed through the top layer of paint, although only faintly visible.

Eriksson's sculptures are based on casts of natural objects. The series "Content is a glimpse" – a quotation by Willem de Kooning – are bronze casts from dead birds, which the artist found after they had flown against the windows of his studio. Eriksson had them cast in such a way that the bizarre forms of the casting channels were preserved, so it looks as if they are sitting once again on tree branches.

In 2007, Eriksson won the Bâloise Art Prize, followed by a solo exhibition at MUMOK, Vienna (A) in 2008. In 2009, his work is on view from 29 August at the 5th Nordic Biennial Momentum, Moss (N) and from 10 September in the group exhibition "Ferne Nähe" at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (D). 2010, the artist will have a solo exhibition at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (S).

For further information and/or images please contact Sommer & Kohl.