4 May - 8 September 2019
Through his art, Paul Fägerskiöld is exploring landscape painting and the relationship between man and nature in a time when human activities have had a significant impact on the climate and ecosystems on Earth. In his artistic practice, he occasionally uses his personal archive; photographs and pictograms that he has collected from his own surroundings and during travels. His large-scaled, monochrome paintings are full of symbols and historical references that together create a network of narratives.
Paul Fägerskiöld (b. 1982) has studied at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm and at Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. He has had a number of solo exhibitions at the Modern Museum in Malmö (2013) and at the Peter Blum Gallery in New York (2016). Fägerskiöld lives and works in Stockholm and New York.
In 2018 Paul Fägerskiöld was awarded with Åke Andrén Foundation’s art grant – one of the biggest grants in Sweden. For the fifth year in a row the awarded artist’s work is shown in a solo exhibition at Borås Museum of Modern Art.
The Åke Andrén Foundation was formed in 2011 for the purpose of supporting and encouraging artistic research, education and development. This is done by awarding promising artists as well as supporting cultural activities and projects of public interest. The grant of SEK 500 000 is awarded annually during 50 years.
The jury’s motivation:
“With his analytical approach to painting, Paul Fägerskiöld is one of the most truly interesting artists of our time. In his paintings, the means are often reduced to maximise their expression. Fägerskiöld’s singular art appears terse, exact and powerful, but also evasive and openly playful. A mediated earnestness melds with his relaxed attitude to the painterly tradition. His fascinating paintings also express poetic precision and explore the boundary between sign and colour. With carefully balanced nuances in canvases of different dimensions, he elaborates on an idiomatic imagery that appears both refined and meditative.”
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