Christian Larsen
Artists:
- Atelier Van Lieshout
- Christian-Pontus Andersson
- Peter Bonde
- Max Book
- Karin Broos
- Cooper & Gorfer
- Joakim Eneroth
- Mads Gamdrup
- Charlotte Gyllenhammar
- Jeannin/Schuurmans
- Katy Kirbach
- John Körner
- Bo Christian Larsson
- Daniel Lergon
- Anna Linderstam
- Haruko Maeda
- Lucas Rahn
- Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
- Viktor Rosdahl
- Vibeke Slyngstad
Exhibitions:
- 43 Katy Kirbach
- 42 Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
- 41 Jeannin / Schuurmans
- 40 Lucas Rahn
- 39 Vibeke Slyngstad
- 38 Haruko Maeda
- 37 Bo Christian Larsson
- 36 Max Book
- 35 Jeannin/Schuurmans
- 34 Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
- 33 Mads Gamdrup
- 32 Heikki Marila
- 31 Lucas Rahn
- 30 Christian-Pontus Andersson
- 29 Daniel Lergon
- 28 Peter Bonde
- 27 Karin Broos
- 26 Joakim Eneroth
- 25 Viktor Rosdahl
- 24 Ann-Sofi Sidén
- 23 Cooper & Gorfer
- 22 Katy Kirbach
- 21 Anna Linderstam
- 20 Joakim Eneroth
- 19 Vibeke Slyngstad
- 18 Christine Ödlund
- 17 John Körner
- 16 Charlotte Gyllenhammar
- 15 Mads Gamdrup
- 14 Max Book
- 13 Karin Broos
- 12 Viktor Rosdahl
- 11 State of Mind
- 10 Anders Widoff
- 09 Ann-Sofi Sidén
- 08 Roger Ballen
- 07 Daniel Lergon
- 06 Hello Gallery Owner!
- 04 Atelier Van Lieshout
- 03 Frida Tebus
- 02 Christian–Pontus Andersson
- 01 Tomas Saraceno
Viktor Rosdahl:
Viktor Rosdahl, Ein Zwei Drei, ink on canvas, 2010
Viktor Rosdahl, Född till å herska, Indian ink and Ink on canvas, 2010
Viktor Rosdahl, Carry Me Home, oil on plastic, 2010
Viktor Rosdahl, Grisajävlar, Indian ink and egg on canvas, 2010
Viktor Rosdahl, Apajävel, Indian ink on art leather, 2010
Viktor Rosdahl, Till en vän, Indian ink and ink on art leather, 2010
Viktor Rosdahl, Dagar i hamnen, Indian ink and ink on plastic, 2010
Viktor Rosdahl, Landskap med revor, oil on wood, 2010
Viktor Rosdahl, När skiten började färga, 2008
Viktor Rosdahl, Huvet i det blå, 2008
Viktor Rosdahl, Örat ringde, och dyn kittlade, kramade, kysstes, 2008
Viktor Rosdahl, Piratfest, 2008
Viktor Rosdahl, Sköld, 2008
About:
In Darkness, the Embrace of the Streets
A factory chimney. A high-rise building that someone is jumping off. A flag. Our gaze wanders and shifts from one detail to the next, all of which are covered and saturated by discharges, static, something chaotic and uncontrollable. We are presented with a direct struggle against a process of reduction and minimalism, a movement towards an investigation of the baroque, teeming with as much detail and seemingly just as animated as the world around us.
Perception and memory are given a central role in Victor Rosdahl’s new paintings. Memories of the appearance and ambience of different settings and situations are sifted through and whirl around us. In his art, Rosdahl has consistently endeavoured to investigate that which exists on the peripheries and to give it a voice. In his paintings, we can make out the name of a freight ship, a mosque, the branches of a tree, graffiti, a person at work; concrete details of everyday life from different eras, all of which create their own stories. The surface of the painting has become a kind of maelstrom that has caught the artist’s impressions and ideas and sucked them down into the deep to be mixed and preserved, layer upon layer, creating a very personal interpretation of reality and history. The past, the present and possible futures are all materialised in the same moment and in the same space, each becoming entangled in the others.
The paintings are made on anything from found plastic bags to paint-soaked cloth towels. These materials that are used as the ground for the paintings often have their own story and connection to the places that are depicted, thereby creating a coalescence of time and space. In terms of models of inspiration, there is a resonance with the works of Anselm Kiefer, Vincent Van Gogh and Hieronymous Bosch. The artist’s own photographs, postcards, found objects and record covers are other important sources of inspiration.
Viktor Rosdahl was born in 1980 and lives in Malmö. He studied at the Royal College of Art in Stockholm and at the Art Academy in Malmö. He has received fellowship grants and awards from the Edstrand Foundation, the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation and from the Swedish National Arts Council. The exhibition In darkness, the embrace of the streets is Rosdahl's second exhibition at Christian Larsen. A large presentation of his works will open at Lund Konsthall on the 27th of November this year. Rosdahl’s work is also currently included in Moderna Museet’s exhibition Modernautställningen 2010.
Self Portraits from Malmö
Viktor Rosdahl’s exhibition is a love story that operates amongst rebels and field biologists, among house occupants and young parents, among freethinkers and misanthropists, among graffiti painters and municipal politicians. The past and the present stand shoulder to shoulder.
Rosdahl creates thight connections between art, myth, and politics. The starting point can be a utopian idea or the story within a found object. The paintings, which occasionally are developing into sculpture, offer art historical, socio-political, and ideological comments from a personal perspective.
Putting together fact and illusion, Rosdahl creates a kind of critical mythologies. With an emotional, passionate and poetic expression the images illustrate the human repression- politically, emotionally and bodily.
Viktor Rosdahl graduated from Konsthögskolan i Malmö in 2007 and has since participated in numerous exhibitions. Between 2007 and 2008 Rosdahl held a scholarship at IASPIS and has been awarded with Edstrandska Stiftelsen and Malmö Konstmuseums stipendium.