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Katrin Westman, Robe I, 2016, oil on canvas, 215 x 200 cm. Installation height 210 cm

KATRIN WESTMAN

DISROBEMENT

Galleri Andersson/Sandström concludes its autumn season with an extremely ambitious young artist, Katrin Westman (b. 1987).  Working abstractly, she is not content to allow the edge of frame to contain her expression as many of her work adopt a sculptural form and encroach into the room. Disrobement explores the new boundaries of abstract painting and announces that the tradition of painting is alive and relevant.

In Westman's exhibition Disrobement, the artist presents an all new body of work that both challenges the viewer’s physical space and their preconceived notions about painting. “Painting in the expanded field” is a relevant concept that can be seen in both her large-scale paintings, and in several sculptural-like painting that physically engages with the viewer.

Westman takes the viewer on a journey across the canvas in her brush strokes, revealing her process. Westman begins these journeys in the long history painting, and with that there is a strong presence of the human form in her work. By digging into the past, she ends up in the moment. Several of the works in the exhibition are inspired by the Italian 16th century artist Giovanni Bernini's sculptures.

Heli Hiltunen, Summer Nights Studies 7, 2016, archival pigment print, 41 x 41 cm

HELI HILTUNEN 

Half Remembered Light

Galleri Andersson/Sandström is proud to present our second solo exhibition with one of Finland’s most established contemporary artists, Heli Hiltunen (b. 1960).

Hiltunen moves in-between the boundary of photography and painting. In this exhibition, Hiltunen will take the viewer on a journey through melancholy landscapes, fragmented narratives, and dream-like states in what has become her signature style.

Ramazan Bayrakoğlu, detail from Kardelen, 2015, stitched fabric mounted on canvas

RAMAZAN BAYRAKOĞLU

Galleri Andersson/Sandström is pleased to open the new season in Stockholm with the internationally renowned artist Ramazan Bayrakuğlu. This is the first time Bayrakoğlu's works will be shown in Sweden and the artist's first exhibition with the gallery.

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© Mario Testino

It is with great pleasure that Kunstforeningen GL STRAND on May 13th for the first time in Denmark, will present the work of Mario Testino over the summer of 2016. 

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce "Art and Mindfulness" an Artist Dialogue Series event at the New York Public Library with artist Enrique Martínez Celaya and art historian, curator and writer Gabriella De Ferrari. The event celebrates the release of two new publications, Martínez Celaya, Work and Documents 1990-2015 and On Art and Mindfulness: Notes from the Anderson Ranch. Martínez Celaya and De Ferrari will discuss the themes and motifs that the artist has explored over the course of his twenty-five year career, his distinctive approach to art, and his passion for teaching and the important role it plays in his life and work.