Lars Bohman Gallery starts up the autumn season with Linn Fernström's fourth exhibition at the gallery. The show consists of a series of new paintings, drawings and prints.
Linn Fernström holds with her powerful paintings a unique position among contemporary Swedish artists. Ever since she finished her studies at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, her often-large canvases have been inhabited of a dream-like mixture of animals and humans. In Linn Fernström's works the small encounters the large, beauty meets cruelty and what is expected is confronted with what comes as a surprise. The extremes create a space where dreams and thoughts can meet and where her animals and humans find a place to act.
Linn Fernström has since her first solo show at the gallery in 2001 gained an enormous success with her works. In the new exhibition the paintings show a cooler and more Nordic range of colours. The artists is still using her own physical body as a tool of narration, but also other men and woman appear and act in worlds that are difficult to place in time and space. The new works exude a quiet poetry, yet they possess the energy and power that are so connected with the artist.
In conjunction with the exhibition the gallery presents the catalogue Paintings 2006-2008. The catalogue opens with a text written by Dan Wolgers, who was Linn Fernström's professor at the Royal University College of Fine Arts. They also participated together in the project Absolute Generations in connection with the Venice Biennale in 2003.
Linn Fernström has previously had a number of solo show, at among others, Passagen Linköpings Konsthall, Örebro Konsthall and at Maniero Associazione Culturali in Rome, Italy. Group shows include, for example, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Carnegie Art Award 2001, Absolute Generations, Venice, Italy and Yunan Art Institute in Kunming, China. Linn Fernström has received several awards and grants, Maria Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelse, Beckers stipendium and Konstnärsnämndens arbetsstipendium, to mention a few.
Linn Fernström holds with her powerful paintings a unique position among contemporary Swedish artists. Ever since she finished her studies at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, her often-large canvases have been inhabited of a dream-like mixture of animals and humans. In Linn Fernström's works the small encounters the large, beauty meets cruelty and what is expected is confronted with what comes as a surprise. The extremes create a space where dreams and thoughts can meet and where her animals and humans find a place to act.
Linn Fernström has since her first solo show at the gallery in 2001 gained an enormous success with her works. In the new exhibition the paintings show a cooler and more Nordic range of colours. The artists is still using her own physical body as a tool of narration, but also other men and woman appear and act in worlds that are difficult to place in time and space. The new works exude a quiet poetry, yet they possess the energy and power that are so connected with the artist.
In conjunction with the exhibition the gallery presents the catalogue Paintings 2006-2008. The catalogue opens with a text written by Dan Wolgers, who was Linn Fernström's professor at the Royal University College of Fine Arts. They also participated together in the project Absolute Generations in connection with the Venice Biennale in 2003.
Linn Fernström has previously had a number of solo show, at among others, Passagen Linköpings Konsthall, Örebro Konsthall and at Maniero Associazione Culturali in Rome, Italy. Group shows include, for example, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Carnegie Art Award 2001, Absolute Generations, Venice, Italy and Yunan Art Institute in Kunming, China. Linn Fernström has received several awards and grants, Maria Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelse, Beckers stipendium and Konstnärsnämndens arbetsstipendium, to mention a few.