Andreas Eriksson at Frieze London
14 - 18 Oct 2014
ANDREAS ERIKSSON AT FRIEZE LONDON
14 - 18 October 2014
Stand C7, Regent's Park, London
For Frieze London 2014, Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to present new paintings, sculptures and tapestries by Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson. This presentation demonstrates the strength and maturity of Eriksson's practice following the artist's debut show at Stephen Friedman Gallery in 2013 and coinciding with his major touring solo exhibition, currently at Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland.
A notable development in these new paintings is the artist's experimentation with brighter colours that contrast with his usual muted palette.
Both luminous and subdued colours collide and contrast in the gestural brushwork and they create textured forms that convey Eriksson's complex dialogue with the natural landscape. This expressive technique evokes the artist's intense affinity with the outside world, allowing his work to dwell between real and imagined places.
Complementing Eriksson's paintings is a new group of tapestries. These densely woven works appear both as patchwork landscapes seen from above and as magnified details of organic form; an intimate personal encounter with nature together with an expansive vista. These intricate tapestries rely on the dominance of vertical and horizontal lines and the reductive use of colour inspired by his paintings.
This new body of work attests to Eriksson's standing as a foremost artist of his generation. His deeply atmospheric paintings are a meditation on the landscape and they invite us to trace the history of mankind's complex and ever-changing relationship with the natural world.
14 - 18 October 2014
Stand C7, Regent's Park, London
For Frieze London 2014, Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to present new paintings, sculptures and tapestries by Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson. This presentation demonstrates the strength and maturity of Eriksson's practice following the artist's debut show at Stephen Friedman Gallery in 2013 and coinciding with his major touring solo exhibition, currently at Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland.
A notable development in these new paintings is the artist's experimentation with brighter colours that contrast with his usual muted palette.
Both luminous and subdued colours collide and contrast in the gestural brushwork and they create textured forms that convey Eriksson's complex dialogue with the natural landscape. This expressive technique evokes the artist's intense affinity with the outside world, allowing his work to dwell between real and imagined places.
Complementing Eriksson's paintings is a new group of tapestries. These densely woven works appear both as patchwork landscapes seen from above and as magnified details of organic form; an intimate personal encounter with nature together with an expansive vista. These intricate tapestries rely on the dominance of vertical and horizontal lines and the reductive use of colour inspired by his paintings.
This new body of work attests to Eriksson's standing as a foremost artist of his generation. His deeply atmospheric paintings are a meditation on the landscape and they invite us to trace the history of mankind's complex and ever-changing relationship with the natural world.