Love Lundell

OPENING: THURSDAY, 25 APRIL, 5-7 PM

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Wetterling Gallery proudly presents OMEN, Love Lundell's fifth solo exhibition at the gallery.

Lundell’s new series of paintings marks a conscious departure from his previous, highly figurative style. By contract, an emphasis is placed on materiality and interior details - motifs that do not carry a specific weight for the artist, which he refers to as ‘artistic intertextuality’. No clear narratives unveil, while hints prevail. Instead, the artist brings together fragments from different sources – for example; a piece from a 1975 shampoo advert meets a 1999 Ikea catalogue, or details from an Egon Schiele painting are found next to illustrations from a 1976 French children's cook book – all issued from the artist’s vast and widely varied image bank. Through overlapping of disjointed images, a sense that everything that seems to have a certain meaning becomes simultaneously meaningless is felt and ties in to the artist’s chosen exhibition title.

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Love Lundell  (b. 1981) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. After graduating from the Trondheim Art Academy, Norway, in 2010, he has developed a distinctive style, which blends seriousness and humor, fantasy and reality. In 2023, Lundell had his first solo museum exhibition in Finland, at Turku Art Museum, titled On Demon Wings. His work is featured in the permanent collections of Turku Art Museum, Finland; Stockholm Region, Sweden; The Public Art Agency (Statens Konstråd), Sweden; Katrineholm Municipality, Sweden; The Swedish Embassy in Cuba.

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The exhibition is accompanied by a dedicated catalogue, featuring an insightful interview conducted by Sofia Edgren with Love Lundell, in February 2024.

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