Anthony Pereira, 17/09, New York, solar opening/lecture
Anna Karlqvist, 07/10 - 18-10, Sweden, paintings
Anna Karlkvist is working with painting and her expression is closely
related to one of the dreamworld. Her images are scenes performed with a peculiar accuracy where the time and consideration are leaving its marks.
She has for this exhibition choosed to have a small introduction text of Ingmar Bergman taken from his movie The wolf hour to illustrate the atmosphere which she is striving for in her paintings.
Anna Karlkvist jobbar med måleri och hennes uttryck ligger nära drömvärldens. Hennes bilder är scener utförda med en säregen precision där tiden och betraktandet lämnar spår. Hon har för den här utställningen valt en kort text av Ingmar Bergman från hans film Vargtimmen för att illustrera den stämning som hon eftersträvar i sina bilder.
"vargtimmen är timmen mellan natt och gryning,
det är timmen då de flesta människor dör,
då sömnen är djupast, då drömmarna är verkligast.
Det är timmen då den sömnlöse jagas av sin svåraste ångest,
då spöken och demoner är mäktigast.
Vargtimmen är också den timme då de flesta barn föds."
Anna Karlkvist is educate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and
lives and works in Stockholm.
Anna Karlkvist är utbildad vid Bildkonstakademin i Helsingfors och är
numera bosatt och verksam i Stockholm.
Muriel Lässer, 21/10 - 01/11, Switzerland, installation
Wisdom Stone deals with the desire of knowledge and desire in general. The desire to know as a dilemma and the consequences that follow. Out of struggling between knowledge and wisdom, the artist Muriel Lässer created a space in which the crossroad of the two meet. The edges and the falls of the desire to know remind one, of the painful moment to surrender without knowing. It is not the unknown the artist is interested but the power of finding oneself in the situation of not knowing.
Wisdom Stone is an installation specially made for Galleri Bergman and one without any actual paintings. As the shape of the canvas was a logical extension of the painted shapes earlier in Muriel Lässer's work the physical approach has become more important and so to say the world in the paintings is shown in Wisdom Stone inside out.
Ishmail Sandstroem, 04/11- 15/11, Queens, New York, light sculptures
Ishmail Sandstroem from Sunnyside Queens New York presents his works in Helsinki Finland for the first time now. Ishmail Sandstroem LIGHTS UP exhibition is an ode to all things the algerian-swede artist loves: light, repetition and the everchanging (often subtle) nature of reality. Light creates life, repetition brings mercy, and nothing ever stays exactly the same. Ishmail Sandstroem says "I dont do art, i do stuff that makes me - and hopefully some others - happy". The crop of 2009 of Ishmail Sandstroem works is made up of LED lights, plexiglass, honewywax, recycled cardboard, and some ancient mechanic gadgets of pre-digitalian times (the 70s).
Petri Lehtinen, curator
Sverigebåten - Ruotsinlaiva
This project is initiated by Galleri Anders Bergman in Helsinki in collaboration with Jakob Ankarsvärd in Stockholm. Galleri Bergman has since it opened in 2007 exhibited a number of Swedish and international artists at its location in central Helsinki.
That there is a difference in tradition and expression between artists from the two countries is probably undisputed, but at the same time we have a long and common history. In Finland the ferry boats that operates the route to Sweden are naturally called Sverigebåten or Ruotsinlaiva, but as the name suggests it has a different meaning then from the Swedish perspective. With this initiative we want to offer a cultural cruising on land. How do we perceive each other and what are clichés that are comfortable to lean on to?
Sverigebåten is presented at Winterviken in Stockholm 06/09-1/11-2009. The exhibition presents five artists from Finland and three from Sweden.
