Galleri Lars Bohman is proud to present the first exhibition with Anders Virgil Dejarv. The exhibition consists of a series of paintings, which he calls story boards and scores.
Dejarv paints strong and expressive paintings that grow and spread from canvas to canvas. Each painting hosts several dimensions and layers, and small works are put together to be presented as one single painting. Different situations and atmospheres share the space and painterly silence rests against vibrating emotions and animated events. But there is no obvious story in Dejarv's paintings, no given beginning or end. The viewer is allowed to create his or her own story – and he or she can start from the left or the right, the top or the bottom.
Dejarv works not only with paintings. To many people he is just as well-known for his video works. His video Peel me a grape (1988) is regarded as an early video classic. Dejarv plays himself the main character's transvestite and the video received great attention when it was first released.
Music has been important to Dejarv, and as a lot of the punk he used to listen to his art breaths independence and liberation. The artist has no direct plan when he is working. The works grow from an intention or a feeling and most important is that the paintings should communicate a specific emotion.
Anders Virgil Dejarv was born in 1962 in Helsingborg, Sweden. He now lives and works in Gothenburg. He received his artistic training at Konsthögskolan Valand between 1987 and 1992, and later in 1996 and 1997 at Konsthögskolan Forum in Malmö, Sweden. He has exhibited widely in Sweden and has also participated in many group shows. He has also exhibited in a number of film festivals where he has shown his videos. He has done numerous projects with Kill Time Easy Space, collaboration with D Krantz, and since 2001 he has a program together with Björn Hellström (CMYK TV) in the Open Channel in Gothenburg.
Dejarv paints strong and expressive paintings that grow and spread from canvas to canvas. Each painting hosts several dimensions and layers, and small works are put together to be presented as one single painting. Different situations and atmospheres share the space and painterly silence rests against vibrating emotions and animated events. But there is no obvious story in Dejarv's paintings, no given beginning or end. The viewer is allowed to create his or her own story – and he or she can start from the left or the right, the top or the bottom.
Dejarv works not only with paintings. To many people he is just as well-known for his video works. His video Peel me a grape (1988) is regarded as an early video classic. Dejarv plays himself the main character's transvestite and the video received great attention when it was first released.
Music has been important to Dejarv, and as a lot of the punk he used to listen to his art breaths independence and liberation. The artist has no direct plan when he is working. The works grow from an intention or a feeling and most important is that the paintings should communicate a specific emotion.
Anders Virgil Dejarv was born in 1962 in Helsingborg, Sweden. He now lives and works in Gothenburg. He received his artistic training at Konsthögskolan Valand between 1987 and 1992, and later in 1996 and 1997 at Konsthögskolan Forum in Malmö, Sweden. He has exhibited widely in Sweden and has also participated in many group shows. He has also exhibited in a number of film festivals where he has shown his videos. He has done numerous projects with Kill Time Easy Space, collaboration with D Krantz, and since 2001 he has a program together with Björn Hellström (CMYK TV) in the Open Channel in Gothenburg.