Lars Bohman is proud to present Marie Capaldi's first exhibition at the gallery.
Marie Capaldi follows a strong Swedish painterly tradition. In colourful paintings, we mainly meet members of her own family. The family in the paintings also serves as a microcosmos. The world is confused and changeable, just as the depicted children change. They grow and mature and assume their places in different environments. Just as in much of Swedish painter Vera Nilsson's art, Marie Capaldi allows women and above all children to speak for humankind. However, Marie Capaldi's paintings are not political but rather a quiet reflection on the passing of time.
In this exhibition Marie Capaldi's twin daughters form the central motive. The artist comments on the new works thus:
"The paintings were small and grew with the children; one series was 1 x 1 metre and now the paintings are much larger as the girls will soon reach puberty. For a time I tried to paint something other than the twins but then my appetite for painting disappeared. I thought that it was twins, as such, that were important and I painted lots of twins on the same canvas. Now I realise that it is my girls that make me want to paint, preferably when they just stand there and nothing happens - because then something usually does happen. (There is perhaps something special about twins after all. I have other children that I paint, also other family members and friends but I always return systematically to the twins.)"
Born in 1958 in Gothenburg, Marie Capaldi lives and works in Sparsrör, Sweden, She received her artistic education at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg 1985-1990. She is represented at, among others, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Norrköping; Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås; Skövde Konstmuseum, Skövde and the National Council of Public Art.
Marie Capaldi follows a strong Swedish painterly tradition. In colourful paintings, we mainly meet members of her own family. The family in the paintings also serves as a microcosmos. The world is confused and changeable, just as the depicted children change. They grow and mature and assume their places in different environments. Just as in much of Swedish painter Vera Nilsson's art, Marie Capaldi allows women and above all children to speak for humankind. However, Marie Capaldi's paintings are not political but rather a quiet reflection on the passing of time.
In this exhibition Marie Capaldi's twin daughters form the central motive. The artist comments on the new works thus:
"The paintings were small and grew with the children; one series was 1 x 1 metre and now the paintings are much larger as the girls will soon reach puberty. For a time I tried to paint something other than the twins but then my appetite for painting disappeared. I thought that it was twins, as such, that were important and I painted lots of twins on the same canvas. Now I realise that it is my girls that make me want to paint, preferably when they just stand there and nothing happens - because then something usually does happen. (There is perhaps something special about twins after all. I have other children that I paint, also other family members and friends but I always return systematically to the twins.)"
Born in 1958 in Gothenburg, Marie Capaldi lives and works in Sparsrör, Sweden, She received her artistic education at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg 1985-1990. She is represented at, among others, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Norrköping; Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås; Skövde Konstmuseum, Skövde and the National Council of Public Art.