Frozen Time, upcoming exhibition in Galerie Helder, Den Haag, The Netherlands

The exhibition Frozen Time opens on Saturday 12th of January at Galerie Helder in Den Haag, The Netherlands

http://www.galeriehelder.nl/exhibitions?id=46

Press text in Dutch:

Frozen Time

De haast romantische en mysterieuze schilderijen van verstilde Scandinavische winterlandschappen van Pär Strömberg brengen ons dieper in onze gemoedstoestand. Daartegenover zijn Lars Weller’s schilderijen onlosmakelijk met de werkelijkheid verbonden, zowel fysiek als mentaal. Ze zijn het resultaat van een koppig verzet tegen een nietszeggende invulling van het bestaan.

 

Het doek wordt dun geschilderd en laag over laag, van licht naar donker. En vanuit het donker wordt het licht weer tevoorschijn gebracht. Kwaststreken vormen een diffuus beeld van een landschap of een portret. Het spel tussen licht en donker laat stilte en overpeinzing bij de toeschouwer achter.

 

De kunstenaars over Frozen Time:

Pär Strömberg: “We presenteren slow art. Dat vraagt concentratie in geduld en toewijding. Mijn landschappen zijn een plek waar je jezelf kunt zijn. Waarnaar je uit het dagelijkse leven kunt ontsnappen. Waarin je je kunt terugtrekken, om weer tot jezelf te komen”.

Lars Weller: “Mijn werk roept een werkelijkheid op die enkel kan bestaan vanuit de eigen reflectie van de toeschouwer. De portretten maken het onzichtbare zichtbaar in onszelf”.

 

Statement:

Pär Strömberg

The shades of gray, dark and seemingly bleak landscapes is bursting with hidden light sources and display a range of full color that require a certain amount of patience and tranquility of its audience. The images clears up gradually and giving seductive invitations to places, experiences and memories deep in our human psyche.

Despite the post-apocalyptic mood of the painting lies a certain reassuring calm of the atmosphere, something that emerges through the many layers of paint, the clear distinctive technology and the austere temperament in the coloring. The characteristics of the oil paintings are a kind of layering techniques much like watercolor painting with thin layers of transparent color and chunks of running structures.

The often large canvases invite you to a physical participation, while the smaller formats are more intimate and mixed up with the inner landscape of an external collective memory of the forces of nature.

The viewer is taken along on a trip to the frozen fields, the mountains and the dissapearing mysterious lake mentioned above. Without getting too allegorical in symbolic language, there are crows, trails in snow and sometimes human characters (my alter ego or a dark passenger?) in the picture where titles often can be used as guidelines. Here I choose, however, according to a symbolist doctrine, preserve the mystery of the image. The eternal questions of life and death, light and darkness mixed up with the past, memories and an untamed nature.

Inspiration comes not only from the wild nature but often found in art history, music and literature in which sounds and texts brings new images. There is even a flirtation with Scandinavian national romanticism in the big bombastic works but that side is often toned down in the smaller formats which shows a more poetically beautiful and evocative atmosphere.

During the past 13 years, since my graduation at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the themes and the narrative in my work revolved around folklore, nature mysticism, dream/nightmare scenarios and of human wonder and smallness before a grand nature. The motifs are mostly from the geographic areas around my home state Örebro in Sweden. My grandmother’s father was at one time forester and worked in southern Bergslagen and Kilsbergen among places like Fasaskogen, Jätteberget and the mysterious lake Tunntappen. Places that I’ve heard about in stories and legends, places that are my origin and which formed the basis of myth in the work I show here at Galerie Helder.

Images from Transylvanian Hunger at Konstfrämjandet Bergslagen in Örebro (S)

Pär Strömberg is taking part in the “Konst Åt Alla” group show in Örebro, Sweden (in swedish)

ÅRETS GRUPPUTSTÄLLNING I ÖREBRO!
cirka 90 konstverk av Örebro´s yrkesverksamma konstnärer.30 yrkesverksamma konstnärer från Örebro ställer ut på Sportpalatset.
Adress: Nygatan 38 ( ingång från gården bakom Röda korset )
Datum: 16-20 oktober 2012
Vernissage: Tisdag 16 oktober kl 13.00
Öppettider: Tis 13.00-18.00, Tors-fre 12.00-18.00, Lör 10.00-14.00
Arrangör: Riksföreningen Våra Gårdar, Folkets Hus och Parker samt Bygdegårdarnas Riksförbund. Värd för utställningen är Våra Gårdar i samarbete med NBV Örebro.
Mer info finns på www.konståtalla.nu

 

Affordable Art Fair Stockholm with Villa Contemporary Art (Galleri Jonas Kleerup)

This weekend I will show a couple of my original lithography prints at the first ever Stockholm edition of the Affordable Art Fair, at Frihamnen.

I will be in Stand D5 with Villa Contemporary Art (Galleri Jonas Kleerup)

Opening hours:

Thursday 4 October 11.00 – 17.30
After work (Thursday night)18.00 – 22.00
Friday 5 October 11.00 – 18.00
Saturday 6 October 11.00 – 18.00
Sunday 7 October11.00 – 18.00

AFF official website: http://affordableartfair.com/stockholm/

Villa Contemporary  Art official website: http://vca.se/

Waters of Ain, offset lithography on paper, 29 x 38 cm, edition of 5

Nu på Söndag den 16e September, kl 13.00 guidar jag på GalleriRundan i Örebro (message in Swedish only)

Nu på Söndag den 16e September, kl 13.00 guidar jag på GalleriRundan i Örebro

http://www.orebrokonsthall.se/gallerirundan-/utstallningar-och-arrangemang/index4,204.htm?id=781

http://bergslagen.konstframjandet.se/verksamhet/gallerirundan/

Images from Of Ice and Movement at Galleri Mejan 2012

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Last day Of Ice and Movement at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm – Sunday 12 Aug, 12.00-1700

Last day Of Ice and Movement at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm – Sunday 12 Aug, 12.00-1700

Below is some collected press clips from the show (most in Swedish):

Wherevent.com: http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Par-Stromberg-Art-Exhibition-at-Galleri-Mejan

DN.se På Stan: http://www.dn.se/pa-stan/konst–museer/samlingsutstallning-galleri-mejan-1

Kulturnytt.se http://www.kulturnytt.se/calendar_city.php?lid=1&kid=16&from=2012-08-03&to=2012-08-17%20%20title=&city=stockholm

Kultur1: http://www.kultur1.se/calendar_lan.php?lid=1&kid=&from=2012-08-02&to=2012-08-16&cid=&date_int=&limit=20&page=3

WeSC News: http://wesc.com/post/of-ice-and-movement-art-exhibition-at-galleri-mej

WeSC Events: http://wesc.com/event/galleri-mejan-excersisplan-3-skeppsholmen-in-stoc

Do Today: http://www.dotoday.se/sv/stockholm/of-ice-and-movement/13957597-a

Of Ice and Movement, exhibition at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm 8-12 August

Vernissage on Wednesday August 8, 17.00 – 21.00 WELCOME!

 


Of Ice and Movement – an exhibition at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm 8-12 August

Press and invitation for the new exhibition by Pär Strömberg

Of Ice and Movement, and with time thru history, the landscapes around us has been shaped and re-shaped long before we habitat the earth. Human presence has then slowly but surely increased the decline of nature.
In this presentation, in the middle gallery, at Galleri Mejan, Pär Strömberg will be showing a series of work that has developed during his past year as a project student at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

In several different techniques, Strömberg is exploring three different, yet related, images of mountain landscapes.From a large scaled oil painting and it’s small stone-lithography sibling via a couple of mountain top charcoal drawings to a cave, which appear in three different versions, two offset-lithographies and a watercolor painting.There are some repetition and slight shift of focus in the images. Some are reversed or mirrored, and there is a hint of a twilight memory of the landscapes past. The tone is, as always, rather dark and somber, but with hope of a new dawn.

Also showing:
Left gallery: Niklas Edstam
Right gallery: Samantha Louise Michel & Jonas Drougge

Excersisplan 3, Skeppsholmen, opposite the main entrance of Moderna Museet

 

Upcoming exhibition at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm – Aug 8

Of Ice and Movement – a new exhibition with paintings, charcoal drawings and lithos at Galleri Mejan – The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm opening August 8 (more info will come).

http://www.kkh.se/index.php/sv/utstaellningar/galleri-mejan