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Umeå, April 26 - May 23, 2014
Exhibition opening on Saturday, April 26th, at 13:00-16:00, in presence of the artist in our gallery in Umeå.
More about the exhibition at www.gsa.se
Aida Chehrehgosha, Black thoughts 2 från serien I can't stop thinking, pigment print, 124 x 156 cm
AIDA CHEHREHGOSHA
I can't stop thinking
24 april - 11 maj, 2014
Vernissage showroom torsdag 24 april klockan 16 - 19
Sehr geehrte Ladies und Gentlemen,
diese Woche geht die Ausstellung von Stefan Behlau zu Ende, bis Samstag gibt es also noch die Möglichkeit die Bilder im Original zu sehen.
Lotta Hannerz, Enhet, Unité, Unit, 2013, oil on canvas, 97x139,5 cm
Lotta Hannerz was born 1968 in Stockholm, Sweden and lives and works in Paris. Hannerz has attended the University College of Arts, Crafs and Design in Stockholm and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She graduated in 2002.
In the beginning of the 2000s Hannerz made several water sculptures, which have been on display in various locationas, such as in the water outside of the Royal Palace in Stockholm. Hannerz has participated in a number of exhibition both in Sweden and aborad, for example at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm and in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.
Hannerz works make part of several collections such as Moderna Museet, Göteborg Art Museum, Malmö Art Museum and Kunstmuseum Bonn.
Lars Axel Söderberg on Lotta Hannerz:
Andy Warhol once said, “Nobody really looks at anything; it’s too hard.” I think he solved this problem by making a movie that constantly showed the same view of the Empire State Building, forcing the audience to sit staring at the same building for more than eight hours!
“Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum,” alleged the Goncourt brothers. Perhaps this is true not only of what is said but of what is written about art. As an artist, I have often heard from colleagues how art critics don't see what they are doing but instead write that their works remind them of some other artist’s work, or simply repeat what someone else already wrote about their art. However, in these financially difficult times for the newspaper industry, art criticism tends to be reduced to verdicts in the form of one to six dots, which, ironically, gives the impression of a random throw of dice.
I would nevertheless like to emphasise that I do not believe that artists are better judges of art than anyone else. In my experience, most artists don’t actually care much for other people’s art. Furthermore, many of the good artists I know are uninterested in the very concept of art.
One thing I feel safe in saying about the artist Lotta Hannerz, however, concerns not the artistic form but the actual contents of her works. Unlike, say, Auguste Renoir, who painted his sensual women over and over again, some artists have a pronounced antipathy to repeating themselves. I myself am one of them. Everything we do is a portrayal of something we want to express once and for all. Lotta Hannerz, I believe, belongs to this group.
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