Galleri Lars Bohman is proud to announce Rita Lundqvist's third exhibition at the gallery.
The girl has played a central part in the works of Rita Lundqvist since the middle of the 1980s. In small formats the artist has created minimalist yet powerful worlds where the girls perform. In the last exhibition at the gallery in 2003 Rita Lundqvist showed paintings where the girl interacted with her sisters in landscapes that were reduced to two fields in sober colours.
In the new exhibition at the gallery Rita Lundqvist is back with her mysterious and secretive girls set in solitary landscapes. Some of the paintings the artist started working with already several years ago. But it is only now, with the distance that comes with the passing of time, that the works have found their definitive composition. Rita Lundqvist works late. Even if the paintings have their evident form days before the opening, there are still details in the characters and their personalities that the artist slowly needs to awaken.
In small works Rita Lundqvist shows paintings filled with subtle gestures and expressions, often accompanied by a humorous glimpse. In the series of new paintings the girls take up more space than before. They act together or in a group and one motif shows four confident girls dressed up and composed as if they were on a catwalk. The landscape is without vegetation, and nature has been reduced to a single line to portray the horizon.
Born in 1953 in Hässleholm, Rita Lundqvist lives and works in Stockholm. She attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in 1980-85. In 2000 she was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
Rita Lundqvist has had solo exhibitions at, among others Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York and at Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Arnstedt & Kullgren, Östra Karup, Sweden; Carnegie Art Award for Nordic Painting 2001 in Copenhagen, Oslo, London, Helsinki, Stockholm, Reykjavik and Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
The girl has played a central part in the works of Rita Lundqvist since the middle of the 1980s. In small formats the artist has created minimalist yet powerful worlds where the girls perform. In the last exhibition at the gallery in 2003 Rita Lundqvist showed paintings where the girl interacted with her sisters in landscapes that were reduced to two fields in sober colours.
In the new exhibition at the gallery Rita Lundqvist is back with her mysterious and secretive girls set in solitary landscapes. Some of the paintings the artist started working with already several years ago. But it is only now, with the distance that comes with the passing of time, that the works have found their definitive composition. Rita Lundqvist works late. Even if the paintings have their evident form days before the opening, there are still details in the characters and their personalities that the artist slowly needs to awaken.
In small works Rita Lundqvist shows paintings filled with subtle gestures and expressions, often accompanied by a humorous glimpse. In the series of new paintings the girls take up more space than before. They act together or in a group and one motif shows four confident girls dressed up and composed as if they were on a catwalk. The landscape is without vegetation, and nature has been reduced to a single line to portray the horizon.
Born in 1953 in Hässleholm, Rita Lundqvist lives and works in Stockholm. She attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in 1980-85. In 2000 she was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
Rita Lundqvist has had solo exhibitions at, among others Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York and at Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Arnstedt & Kullgren, Östra Karup, Sweden; Carnegie Art Award for Nordic Painting 2001 in Copenhagen, Oslo, London, Helsinki, Stockholm, Reykjavik and Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.