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Jacquelyn Davis
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The Polaris Series 3
by Jacquelyn Davis
Gunilla Klingberg at Galerie Nordenhake
August 27th, 2010 - October 3rd, 2010
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9/13/10
Stockholm-based Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg presents an installation with five accompanying art objects reminding art lovers why it remains important to personally experience art in real life. The focus of this examination is on Klingberg's oversized display of red grid lines entitled Parallelareal Curry Lines, 2010 that make their way across Galerie Nordenhake's floor, creeping up walls and weaving their way through the open space. Many artists possess a longstanding historical and... [more]
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What's Outside?
by Jacquelyn Davis
Dave Allen, Christine Ödlund, Kerstin Bergendal, Martin Boyce, Nathan Coley, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Martin Karlsson, Matts Leiderstam, Margaret Morton, Paola Pivi, Ingo Vetter, Annette Weisser, Elisabeth Westerlund, Kohei Yoshiyuki at Marabouparken
August 28th, 2010 - November 7th, 2010
Posted
9/13/10
The parks that surround some museums isolate art into objects of formal delectation. Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art.
Robert Smithson, "Cultural Confinement," 1972
Sweden, the land of near perfect summers, lush outdoor environments and carefree activities. The tourist bureau is, rare for tourist bureaus, not lying. Marabouparken's group exhibition “Parkliv” (“Park Life”) took advantage... [more]
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Costume Party
by Jacquelyn Davis
Vee Speers at Fotografiska Museet
May 21st, 2010 - September 5th, 2010
Posted
8/9/10
Children can be forced to grow up at a lightning pace, for both wanted and unwanted exposures plague the false purity attributed to childhood. Vee Speers in her latest exhibition The Birthday Party at Stockholm's newly opened Fotografiska Museet presents more than a dozen oversized, illuminated portraits of costumed children, decorated in the light of pastels and creams, sharing the stage with well-chosen props, objects of shock and intrigue—even limp feral creatures. Not the che... [more]
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The Polaris Series 2
by Jacquelyn Davis
Posted
8/9/10
Well-known Swedish photographer Anders Petersen has been taking photographs since he left home at eighteen, beginning in Hamburg, Germany in the '60s with outsider figures and acquaintances at a bar called Café Lehmitz, leading up to his latest show at Stockholm's Fotografiska Museet displaying a fine-tuned collection of 100 black and white photographs taken in Värmland, Sweden. With so many photographs displayed side by side, it is easy to overlook som... [more]
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The Polaris Series 1
by Jacquelyn Davis
Posted
6/14/10
In Sweden—where public transportation is quite sufficient and considered to be superior to competing modes of mobility—it is an oddly welcome change of pace to see one's creative focus shift towards the automobile culture. Swedish artist Daniel Andersson recently presented Big Block Beauty, 2009 alongside the work of twelve other artists in “Bilen i våra hjärtan” (i.e. “The Car in Our Hearts”) at Skövde Kulturhus. Situated in the heartland of Sweden, works in this group show... [more]
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Expatriates
by Jacquelyn Davis
Emanuel Almborg, Nina Canell, Karin Hasselberg, Carl Johan Högberg, Malin Lennström-Örtwall, Jenny Lindblom, Magnus Monfeldt, Jonas Ohlsson, Emily Sundblad, Niklas Tafra, Charlotte Wandt at Bonniers Konsthall
April 14th, 2010 - June 20th, 2010
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6/14/10
Every spring at Bonniers Konsthall, an effort is made to share the work of emerging Swedish artists that are considered to be cutting-edge, contemporary, and altogether de rigueur. The curators this round tried a different spin; they chose to focus on the works of eleven Swedish artists who now make work and reside outside Sweden—in other words, expatriates who have chosen to produce work under the influence of other cultures. Which begs the question: what makes these artists Swe... [more]
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