Intuition 2017 Archival Pigment print, Diasec 45x34cm
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ville andersson
ville andersson
Silence that speaks 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 84,2x60cm
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Silence that speaks - detall
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Curiosity 2017 Archival Pigment print, Diasec 100x150 cm
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Howl howl howl 2017 Pencil on paper 113x80cm
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The aura of you remains 2017 Pencil on paper 39,3x29.8cm
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Memory Ink and pencil on paper 73,5x55cm
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Memory - Detail
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ville andersson
Soliloquy 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 79,5 x 60 |
ville andersson
ville andersson
Contemplation 2017 Archival Pigment print, Diasec 100x151 cm
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Contemplation - Detail
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Breathing in, Breathing Out 2017 Pencil on paper 41,8x29.5cm
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Unnamable 2017 Oil on canvas 30x 20cm
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(De)construction 2017 Archival Pigment print, Diasec 71x51 cm
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Note 2017 Pencil on paper 20,4x12,5 cm
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Stoned 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 34,6x24,6cm
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Nurture 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 85x60cm
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Nurture - Detail
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Mysteries of Science 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 41,8 x 29,5 cm |
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 41,8 x 29,5 cm |
ville andersson
Fluid 2017 Pencil on paper 41,8x29.5cm |
ville andersson
ville andersson
Contradict 2017 Ink, pencil and adhesive letters on paper 69x50 cm
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Wake up 2017 Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper 85,4x60cm
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Flicker 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 74,8 x60cm
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Taste in ideas 2017 Archival Pigment print, Diasec 70,8x47cm
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Resistance 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 30,3x19.4cm
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Howdy! 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 21x29,5cm
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You are here 2017 Ink and pencil on paper 104,8 x 90 cm
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ville andersson
ville andersson
Lessness 2017 Archival Pigment print, Diasec 100 x 71,2cm
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Daydreamer 2017 Archival Pigment print, Diasec 32 × 48.5 cm
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I CAN’T GO ON. I WILL GO ON
12.1.-4.2.2018
At Helsinki Contemporary, Bulevardi 10, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
“In the middle of the desert, with the pitiless blaze of the sun and the storms trying to empty everything out, there were also a few plants. Contrary to our mental images of them as a symbol of transience, those scarce little flowers became a pristine, life-affirming element.”
With those words the artist Ville Andersson describes the starting points for his new exhibition. The title of the show opening at Helsinki Contemporary 12 January, I can’t go on. I will go on., is adapted from the last words of Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamable. Andersson sees this phrase as reflecting an environment, which is simultaneously tragic and comic. Tragic because it is disintegrating, comic because it keeps on going. At the same time, the words sound like a motivational-quotation-like mantra.
The exhibition had its beginnings in a photograph taken in a desert in New Mexico. The desert is nowadays the home of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project, which observes asteroids that pass close to the earth. The world’s first nuclear test was carried out nearby. In Curiosity the desert becomes timeless and placeless. Andersson is interested in such non-places, which are not just a matter of the absence, but also of the presence of absence. Not of that which is not there, but more a contemplation of what has been or what will be.
The exhibition will include photographs, drawings and paintings. Andersson has applied a new technique, which might be called ‘digital sculpture’. He has used 3D-modelling software to create images that have ultimately been printed like photographs. The works shift between abstract and figurative, organic and inorganic.
One element of the works is landscapes. These formations reminiscent of mountains and stone have come about from memory. They are residual recollections, ephemeral nuggets of experience. The working process is perhaps not so much a matter of simplification, as of a suspension of reduction. Another theme is the body and the face. The genderless figures seem to be in motion, and yet at the same time static. Andersson speaks of the consolation of movement: play or dance are attempts to transcend tragedy, to tend a wound, and to create meanings.
Characteristic features of Andersson’s aesthetic are allusiveness, richness of nuance, precision, understatement and ephemerality. He combines themes and creates links between things. In addition to the flow of ideas, he is interested in the silence that is a silencing not only of sounds, but also of the Self.
Along with the exhibition, a catalogue of Andersson’s recent production will be published together with the Finnish Institute in Germany. After the exhibition at Helsinki Contemporary, Andersson's new works will be shown in a solo exhibition at the Institute in Berlin from 9 March to 20 June and later the same year at LOKO Gallery in Tokyo. Andersson is one of the artists selected for the Artist-in-Residence program at The Watermill Center, New York for 2018. He will be staying and working at Watermill in March-April.
Thank you: Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Art Promotion Centre Finland, Christopher Longfellow & Noah Khoshbin
READ MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (+ READ INTERVIEW) - HELSINKI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY
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