ARTIST STATEMENT
About me and my monkeys
For me art is like music without lyrics, a subtly whay of mediate a feeling withoit having to tell the observer what to feel.
I love to work with big field of color,
i have had a lot of thought on the room or space i place my monkeys in, and its a conscious choice to not put to much scenery around them
that can steel focus, its about the interaction with each other, and the background color enhance the feeling a want to bring about.
i like to think of my paintings as mood setters, when you walk in to a room with one of my paintings you should be able to read it in seconds
and subconsciously be affected by it.
why monkeys is a questions i get a lot.
beside the fact that they are funny and that it makes me happy to paint them,
we have 99% the same dna, but we are so different from eachother, they live with the nature and we live off it,
but still in some ways are we still similar, communicating with gestures and sounds, forming groups and hierarchy,
its like describing a generation gap between us and our primal ancestors.
So i use my chimps to put focus on different things that i find interesting,
for example the shows homage to heritage and celebration to duration was about
the consumtion society and that you should bye stuff that had higher after-market value instead of buying stuff that you had to throw away because nobody wanted it.
Education
2011-2012 Artcollage painting and sculpture
2012-2014 Gothenburg school of art, with oriantation Painting
EXHIBITIONS
2013, Who, where and what is the monkey, (Borås)
2014, Monkey Business galleri Sandeng, (Göteborg)
2015, Homage to heritage Part I (Stockholm)
2015, Homage to heritage part II, Galleri Arkiv8 (Göteborg)
2016, Me like you like them like us Part I, Båstad hotell Galleri Arkiv8 (Båstad)
2016, Me like you like them like us Part II (Stockholm)
2016, Jag upplevde H.K.H Mariella interiors, (Borås)
2017, Cut the ties (Digital exhibition with showroom in Stockholm)
2017, Celebration to Duration Gallery arkiv8 (Göteborg)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015, (Galleri Torekov, Torekov)
ART FAIRS
2017, Affordable art fair stockholm with Gallery Nordic artwall
2018, Affordable art fair London with Konstgruppen
