FLOWERS
The exhibition, his seventh at the gallery, consists of a series of new paintings and drawings.
(…)
The art is the red juice.
I am watching the juice. Where is grandmother?
Grandmother is in her garden and she is picking Wonderful Flowers.
This is an extract of the short text that Jarl Ingvarsson has written for the catalogue Blommor which is being released in conjunction with the colourful exhibiton. Flowers are the main motif and Jarl Ingvarsson is true to himself as his oil paint creates music and poetry. The paintings show at Karlavägen 16, whereas the drawings are exhibited at the new gallery space at Sturegatan 36.
Jarl Ingvarsson represents something unique and wilful and he takes a special role in the Swedish contemporary art world. He works on indefatigably and he is constantly searching for new ways of tackling painting. He paints on canvas, on cardboard, on wood – the surface is not important – and he mixes oil paint with details in charcoal. He is often described as a poetic and powerful artist whose colourful, expressionistic paintings have their roots in 1980s new expressionism. Influences from an older tradition of Swedish painting, represented by 1920s colourists Bror Hjorth and Sven X:et Erixson, may also be discerned.
The artist's both narrative and painterly images touch upon existential subjects as life, death and religion. The motifes are often simple everyday objects and come from the artist's imagination, his studio or form the landscape just outside of it. It is Ingvarsson's painterly sharpness and strength that makes him so special in a cultural environment where we often reward and encourage what is innovative and alternative. It is liberating and joyful to experience Ingvarsson's paintings and we are reminded that art can convey happiness, pain, chaos and clarity by something as primary as paint on canvas.
Born 1955 in Asmara, Eritrea, Jarl Ingvarsson lives and works in Sparsör, Sweden. He attended The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm (1978-1982) and is member of the Royal Academy. He has exhibited widely and is represented in Sweden at, among others, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Malmö Konstmuseum, Fredrik Roos Collection, Malmö, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sundsvalls Konstmuseum, Borås Konstmseum, Samling Saltarvet, Fiskebäckskil and Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany. He has also done several public works, among others at Landvetter Airport and at Operakällaren, Stockholm.
The exhibition, his seventh at the gallery, consists of a series of new paintings and drawings.
(…)
The art is the red juice.
I am watching the juice. Where is grandmother?
Grandmother is in her garden and she is picking Wonderful Flowers.
This is an extract of the short text that Jarl Ingvarsson has written for the catalogue Blommor which is being released in conjunction with the colourful exhibiton. Flowers are the main motif and Jarl Ingvarsson is true to himself as his oil paint creates music and poetry. The paintings show at Karlavägen 16, whereas the drawings are exhibited at the new gallery space at Sturegatan 36.
Jarl Ingvarsson represents something unique and wilful and he takes a special role in the Swedish contemporary art world. He works on indefatigably and he is constantly searching for new ways of tackling painting. He paints on canvas, on cardboard, on wood – the surface is not important – and he mixes oil paint with details in charcoal. He is often described as a poetic and powerful artist whose colourful, expressionistic paintings have their roots in 1980s new expressionism. Influences from an older tradition of Swedish painting, represented by 1920s colourists Bror Hjorth and Sven X:et Erixson, may also be discerned.
The artist's both narrative and painterly images touch upon existential subjects as life, death and religion. The motifes are often simple everyday objects and come from the artist's imagination, his studio or form the landscape just outside of it. It is Ingvarsson's painterly sharpness and strength that makes him so special in a cultural environment where we often reward and encourage what is innovative and alternative. It is liberating and joyful to experience Ingvarsson's paintings and we are reminded that art can convey happiness, pain, chaos and clarity by something as primary as paint on canvas.
Born 1955 in Asmara, Eritrea, Jarl Ingvarsson lives and works in Sparsör, Sweden. He attended The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm (1978-1982) and is member of the Royal Academy. He has exhibited widely and is represented in Sweden at, among others, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Malmö Konstmuseum, Fredrik Roos Collection, Malmö, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sundsvalls Konstmuseum, Borås Konstmseum, Samling Saltarvet, Fiskebäckskil and Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany. He has also done several public works, among others at Landvetter Airport and at Operakällaren, Stockholm.