http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/ en Copyright 2011 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:20:11 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss In No Particular Order, Galerie Crone, Berlin 2011 In No Particular Order, Göteborg Konstmuseum 2010 In No Particular Order, Maria Stenfors Gallery, London 2009 Feed Thy Soul, E:vent Gallery, London (with Matteo Rosa) 2008 Wrath of God, Oslo Kunstforening, Norway 2007 Wrath of God, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm Ipomeia, Galleri Mårtenson & Persson, Båstad 2005 Daisy Chain, Karizma Gallery, Kuwait 2004 The Gospel, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm Shedding, Project Space, Museum of Modern Art, London 2003 The Gospel, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö The Gospel, Konsthallen, Bohusläns Museum 2001 By Proxy, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm 2000 Double Happiness, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo 1999 If You Could See Me Now, Titanik, Åbo 1997 Still Lives, Galleri Axel Mörner, Stockholm 1996 Through The Looking Glass, The Project room, The Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 M8’s, Clifford Chance, London Insidan, Murberget, Länsmuseet Västernorrland, Härnösand, Sweden Svenska Självporträtt- från Zorn till samtid, Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden 2007 Market art fair, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm 2006 Art 37 Basel, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm 2005 Art 36 Basel, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm The Mirror of Desire, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm 2004 Genus & Media, Region Museum Västra Götaland, Sweden 2002 Visitors, Bohusläns Museum, Konsthallen, Uddevalla, Sweden 2001 It's a Wild Party And We are Having a Great Time, Paul Morris Gallery, New York Nu Blommar Det, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden Swenglish, IASPIS Ateljén, London 1999 Mr Fascination, Thread Waxing Space, New York 1998 Ice Garden, London New Paintings, Abbey Orchard Street, London 1996 Vårutställning, The Royal University Collage of Fine Arts, Stockholm 1995 Hotellet, Hotel Gustav Vasa, Stockholm]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/about/cv.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/about/cv.html about Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:20:11 +0000 Gud gör comeback (Konstperspektiv, Mars 1, 2008) Linda Fagerström, Konstens knivskarpa gräns mellan sex och naket (Helsingborgs Dagblad, August 18, 2007) Carl-Johan Malmberg, Genombrott för verkligt stort måleri (Svenska Dagbladet, April 2007) Anders Olofsson, Martin Gustavsson (konsten.net, 2007) Milou Allerholm, Ett sensuellt evangelium, (Dagens Nyheter, January 2004) Carl Johan Malmberg, Mäktiga bilder vrider och vänder på manskroppen (Svenska Dagbladet, February 7, 2004) Lilith Waltenberg, Evangelium enligt Gustavsson, (Sydsvenska Dagbladet, February, 2003) Lottie Sällström, Evangeliet sprids i Malmö (QX, February, 2003) Måns Holst-Ekström, Evangelium enligt Martin, Sydsvenskan (Mars 17, 2003) Håkan Nilsson, Dunkelt. Gustavsson ger verkligheten suddiga kanter (Dagens Nyheter, April 7, 2001) Lia Gangitano, Mr Fascination (Trans Magazine, 2001) Peggy Phelan, Repetition and Absence: The Paintings of Martin Gustavsson (2001) Nordic Art Feature (ZOO, Issue 7, 2000) Monty DiPietro, Paintings that invite you to linger longer (The Japan Times, 2000) Jenny Nybom, “Band Mellan Människor” (Åbo underrättelser, Sept. 25 1999) Jari Nikkola, Review (Aamuset, September 22 1999) Bill Arning, Three Swedes (New Art Examiner, 1998) Marika Wachtmeister, “Konsten lever I Stockholm” (Kristianstadsbladet, Sept 1997) Bo Madestrand, ”Vad händer i konsten”? (Expressen, August 25 1997) Mårten Castenfors, ”Med ansiktet i blickpunkten” (Svenska Dagbladet, August 30 1997) Lars O Eriksson, ”Stillsamma höststart” (DN, August 1997)]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/about/bibliography.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/about/bibliography.html about Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:20:10 +0000 Inevitably making sense This text is derived from a set of questions and answers between the author and the artist, that constituted a live performance at Maria Stenfors Gallery, London on 12th November 2010, during In No Particular Order’s exhibition there. Ten questions and more answers were written separately in advance by the author and the artist respectively, neither knowing what the other’s were. The questions derived from a series of intense studio visits and private conversations between the two during the development of the work. The answers take the form of carefully selected quotations from a diverse range of sources that variously (pre)occupy the artist. During the performance questions and answers were drawn at random, one pair at a time, in the order that they appear below. Their conjunction was pure chance (or something else), emulating or enacting structural and interpretive characteristics of the work exhibited, representing the kind of communication that might occur within a friendship. http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/about/catalogue_essay_inevitably_mak.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/about/catalogue_essay_inevitably_mak.html about Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:20:09 +0000 ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order_at_gale.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order_at_gale.html news Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:36:59 +0000 ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order_in_berl.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order_in_berl.html news Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:27:51 +0000 ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/installation_shot_in_goteborg.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/installation_shot_in_goteborg.html news Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:33:16 +0000 In the exhibition ”In No Particular Order”, Martin Gustavsson carves out a new direction in his art. A great number of paintings, closely hung together, create a multifaceted system of combinations and reading possibilities. The works merge into a continuum, a simultaneous then and now, with a both urgent presence and elusive absence. He uses his own artistic history in order to reformulate statements about a Being, a search of his own memory as well as of a collective one. A production of possibilities for a context viewed over time and in several dimensions. The random hanging of the paintings becomes a counter move against the circumstances we call life and the meanings we wish and believe that we can see, and make sense of, in terms of significances. The experiences we gain and exchange in our encounter with his works are a never-ending dialogue without a conclusive answer. Martin Gustavsson invites us to accompany him in his exploration to unfold deeper levels of meaning. The hanging indicates the method: turning and twisting, reversing, inspecting at close range and from a distance, the detailed, the repetitive, the essentially different. And to constantly return to the imagery that reminds us of our vulnerability, the body we revisit, the parts of a body that we see. Martin Gustavsson is one of Sweden’s most interesting artists, with a powerful integrity and personal iconography. It is with great pleasure that Gothenburg Museum of Art presents one of Sweden’s most prominent contemporary painters for its audience. http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order_at_gote.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order_at_gote.html news Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:22:53 +0000 ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order_1.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order_1.html news Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:28:26 +0000 Please join us Friday 12th November at 7pm for a conversation and performance with Martin Gustavsson and Ian White No Order In Particular is an extension, testing and live (re)configuring of the title to (and the works in) Martin Gustavsson's exhibition In No Particular Order. The exhibition consists of a currently unlimited, ongoing series of paintings - wildly diverse stylistically and formally - hung in a random order, canvas-to-canvas, perhaps in such a way as to make content of the process of our production of sense. Which in and of itself, or despite ourselves, never seems to fail. Thus No Order In Particular in which the exhibition is rehung by the artist and Ian White (who are friends) while questions are asked and answered via systems that might be understood as similar.]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/no_order_in_particular.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/no_order_in_particular.html news Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:50:22 +0000 In No Particular Order opens at Maria Stenfors on the 12th of October 2010. 13/10-20/11 The exhibition will also be shown at Göteborgs Museum Feb-May 2011. More info to follow. ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/in_no_particular_order.html news Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:08:37 +0000 17 April – 17 May Private view: 16 April, 6–9 pm The exhibition stages an encounter between artists Martin Gustavsson and Matteo Rosa, exploring the cultural and aesthetic significance of gardens and flowers, from seemingly contrasting viewpoints. Departing from the ancient Greek myth of Hyacinth, a lover of the god Apollo, Martin Gustavsson examines the metaphorical and formal language of representation, allegory and form, painting the image of nature as a site of desire and decay. In an essay on his work, Peggy Phelan writes that “Gustavsson makes a bid for painting’s still urgent contribution to the representation of sex and death”. The results are baroque and highly erotic canvases that oscillate between the painstakingly beautiful and the grotesque. Central to Matteo Rosa’s work is a phenomenological inquiry into the potential of human consciousness, within the context of minimalist aesthetics. In this exhibition he presents a series of videos and drawings, focusing on the contemplation of nature and impermanence. Informed by Eastern philosophy, Rosa’s work can be seen as an endeavour to extinguish desire, separation and ego. For Rosa, the garden becomes a peaceful space, which enables meditation, spiritual communion and existential development. Feed Thy Soul is an attempt at probing the split between nature and culture, reconciling the thoroughly human craving for pleasure with the quest for spiritual improvement. E:vent Gallery 96 Teesdale Street London info@eventnetwork.org.uk ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/feed_thy_soul.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/feed_thy_soul.html news Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:55:51 +0000 ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/nils_bech_performs_at_the_open.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/nils_bech_performs_at_the_open.html news Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:32:32 +0000 The exhibition will run until 19th of December ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/second_installment_of_wrath_of.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/second_installment_of_wrath_of.html news Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:22:37 +0000 www.oslokunstforening.no click here Or you can mail marianne@oslokunstforening.no]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/wrath_of_god_at_oslo_kunstfore.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/wrath_of_god_at_oslo_kunstfore.html news Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:50:11 +0000 Myths of God’s punishment of his people for their sins and perversions have been the subject of countless beautiful artworks but have also inspired less exalted sentiments, among them homophobia. Gustavsson, who has also recently painted male nudes, plays with these divergent connotations, creating a painterly style simultaneously tender and violent. Here the sublime is evoked in so deliberate a manner that one cannot help but embrace the result, a gallery that seems (and smells) like an overtly licentious Sistine Chapel. ]]> http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/review_of_wrath_of_god_by_powe.html http://www.martin-gustavsson.com/news/review_of_wrath_of_god_by_powe.html news Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:21:41 +0000