Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present the first major presentation of the renowned artist Gardar Eide Einarsson's work in Sweden.
Gardar Eide Einarsson's work is characterised by borrowing elements from art historical as well as contemporary sources such as graffiti and skateboard culture. Fragments and forms from the Internet, sticky labels, fanzines, graffiti and art-historical icons become signs and messages on canvas or directly on the wall, rendered in paint or ordinary felt-tip pen.
- GEE's art is consistently black-and-white. The graphics blatantly play with the clichés of street culture and the 'underground', but the blackness also contains references to all those black monochromes of art history, says the exhibition's curator and Bonniers Konsthall's director Sara A...
Pour sa première exposition à la galerie BUGADA & CARGNEL, Gardar EIDE EINARSSON, artiste norvégien basé à New York, présente un ensemble de nouvelles œuvres (peintures, photos et sculpture) dans lesquelles il poursuit de façon décalée et minimaliste son exploration des recoins ambigus de la société.
Qu'il transpose en peintures noir et blanc de grand format les couvertures, tirant sur la corde de l'abstraction géométrique, d'ouvrages issus de littératures parallèles ou qu'il agrandisse des photographies tirées de manuels de police étrangement conceptuels, qu'il reproduise des portraits de petits criminels parus dans la presse et tendant vers le modernisme ou qu'il recrée un barbecue fa...
This exhibition presents the diversity and high quality of the Astrup Fearnley Collection, which has developed into one of Scandinavia’s finest collections of international contemporary art. In this exhibition we present new acquisitions by younger artists, mainly Americans, who have entered the international art scene since 2000. You can also experience works by Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman and others who established their artistic practice in the 1980s and ‘90s.
The exhibition features artists like Lizzi Bougatsos, Corin Hewitt, Terence Koh and Klara Lidén, who express themselves through diverse media such as sculpture, drawing, video, painting and photography. These artists often take their point of departure in existing visual material, yet in addition to appropriating...