26.3 2014
March 29: Fredrik Roos Art Grant opens
Tomas Lundgren, Divergent I-III, 2014 © Tomas Lundgren
This Saturday, the exhibition with this year’s receiver of the Fredrik Roos Art Grant, Tomas Lundgren, opens in The New Gallery.
Tomas Lundgren (born 1985) has taken his master at Valand Academy, Gothenburg, and works primarily with painted portraits of material found in photo archives, which he puts together in various combinations, sometimes so that the images resemble deformed human bodies or so-called phantom images that do not really show how someone looks, but rather how our memory works.
The Jury’s motivation is: “By creating his pieces from blurred fragments of his memory rather than exact depictions he questions the classical aesthetic concept of mimesis. Someone’s appearance does not tell you what that person is feeling or thinking. The artistry of Tomas Lundgren makes our everyday habitual way of seeing things sharper by reminding us about the deceptiveness of images.”
The exhibition ends April 20.
Published 26 March 2014 · Updated 26 March 2014
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