Paul Fägerskiöld
Stockholm
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Flatlands
Peter Blum Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Paul Fägerskiöld entitled Flatlands at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.
Flatlands takes its name from the satirical Victorian novella written by Edward Abbott in 1884, that is at once a social commentary and a sci-fi examination of the concept of spatial dimensions. The story describes people as flat geometric shapes, stuck within the confines of a two-dimensional world. The astrophysicist Carl Sagan famously commented on the implications of “Flatland” in his thought experiment about the perceptual limitations of our own three-dimensional reality.
Paul Fägerskiöld uses this backdrop as a framework for this exhibition and incorporates flatly painted geometric shapes throughout this body of large-scale paintings on linen. The title work in the show “Flatland”, from his “Landscape” series, depicts a thickly painted monochromatic dark blue shape with a gently curving horizon line, floating on a field of raw linen. There will also be several works from Fägerskiöld’s “Spray Painting” series, in which he applies many delicate layers of spray paint to create hovering atmospheres that are unified as color fields from a distance and disperse into thousands of constituent dots from up close.
Recently, Fägerskiöld has begun to consider narrative structures in his thinking about the relationships between paintings. The largest work in the show consists of 54 separate canvases arranged in an irregular grid, with each depicting either a circle, number, or hand print painted in red, yellow, blue, or white in the center. This work furthers Fägerskiöld’s investigation of language and symbols, alluding to a wide range of references, from city street signs, to Mondrian’s early New York paintings, to Blinky Palermo’s seminal cycle of paintings from 1976, “To the People of New York City”.
Paul Fägerskiöld’s paintings reveal themselves at once as images and as constructions that expose their materiality and production. The related bodies of work in this exhibition continually reconfigure each other’s meanings, shifting and twisting into narratives that unfold distinctly within each individual’s experience.
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Mar 22 - May 18, 2019
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Installation view of Flatlands
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
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Flatlands
Paul Fägerskiöld solo exhibition
2019
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York, Photo by Etienne Frossard.
Flatlands
Paul Fägerskiöld solo exhibition
2019
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York, Photo by Etienne Frossard.
Flatlands
Paul Fägerskiöld solo exhibition
2019
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York, Photo by Etienne Frossard.
Flatlands
Paul Fägerskiöld solo exhibition
2019
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York, Photo by Etienne Frossard.
Flatlands
Paul Fägerskiöld solo exhibition
2019
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York, Photo by Etienne Frossard.
Flatlands
Paul Fägerskiöld solo exhibition
2019
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York, Photo by Etienne Frossard.
Flatlands
Paul Fägerskiöld solo exhibition
2019
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York, Photo by Etienne Frossard.
Installation view of Flatlands
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Artworks
Paul Fägerskiöld > <
42nd Parallel Symphony
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Impression, Harvest Moon
Flatland
Paul Fägerskiöld > <
42nd Parallel Symphony
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Impression, Harvest Moon
Flatland
Paul Fägerskiöld
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42nd Parallel Symphony
2008-2019
Acrylic Flashe on linen
117 x 275 inches (297.2 x 698.5 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Photo by Etienne Frossard
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2019
Acrylic on linen
79 x 94 inches (200.7 x 238.8 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Photo by Etienne Frossard
Impression, Harvest Moon
2019
Oil on linen
34 x 25 1/4 inches (86.4 x 64.1 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Photo by Etienne Frossard
Flatland
2019
Oil on linen
98 3/8 x 120 1/8 inches (250 x 305 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Photo by Etienne Frossard
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Paul Fägerskiöld
Stockholm
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