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HEMMET OCH FAMILJEN (ETT VANLIGT LIV)
HOME AND FAMILY (AN ORDINARY LIFE)
6–27 APRIL 2024 Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö
På Lars Embäcks utställning möts vi av ett rum i rummet, med föremål vanliga i ett hem kombinerade och omstuvade till en märklig drömlik scen. Runt om detta ett flöde av teckningar och skisser i färg. I flera av bilderna finns referenser till Hilma af Klint. En fråga om när det att ”höra röster” blir en akt av konstnärlig andlighet kontra det som rubriceras som lidande och galenskap. Som ofta i Embäcks verk finns här ledtrådar till hans biografi. Men viktigare är att bilder och föremål flätas samman till ett gigantiskt ”skissblock”, skisser på skisser, som ställer frågan om hur vanligt ett ”vanligt liv” är.
At Lars Embäck's exhibition, we are greeted by a room within a room, with objects common in a home combined and rearranged into a strange dreamlike scene. Around this a flow of drawings and sketches in color. In several of the pictures there are references to Hilma af Klint. A question of when "hearing voices" becomes an act of artistic spirituality versus what is labeled suffering and madness. As often in Embäck's work, there are clues to his biography here. But more important is that images and objects are woven together into a giant "sketchbook", sketches on sketches, which asks the question of how ordinary an "ordinary life" is. |
An Autumn Full of Contemporary Art in West Sweden!
GIBCA Extended is both a network and a public program that
gathers the contemporary art scenes and venues of Västra
Götaland Region. Each edition of GIBCA Extended offers a
platform for artists, curators, galleries and art spaces. Their
individual programs and exhibitions consolidate and explore
new perspectives on the biennal’s theme.
17 oktober 2023 Artists talk at Högsbo library with Annica Kvint and the artists Marko Cesarec, Lars Embäck and Anne Marte Overaa about the exibition Lost Days/New Days at Högsbo library and Axel Dahlströms Square.
15 september–19 november 2023 Lost Days/New Days Marko Cesarec, Lars Embäck and Anne Marte Overaa at Högsbo library and Axel Dahlströms Square in Högsbo
Picture above: Anne Marte Overaa. The award Unsung was created as part of the project To Whom it May Concern at the invitation of and with support of Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten. Photo: Marko Cesarec in Högsbo. |
Lars Embäck's studio can be visited at ADDO, Borrgatan 4, Saturday 2/9 2023 12-17 |
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Supermarket, Stockholm 11-14 May 2023, with the Artist's Association Aura
Lars Embäck, The Trace, collage and ink on paper 43x45 cm |
Vet ni! Groupexibition at Galleri Ping-Pong 7-28 January 2023
Lars Embäck
Mummy's Gaze and Card Players – Together, charcoal on panel and photo print |
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NEW BOOK 2020
FAMILY LIFE: THE ARTIST'S HIDDEN SECRETS
spleen nordic
A father and a mother are scarred in separate
traffic accidents. In the family home, the effects of their
trauma ring like an echo in the lives of their children.
Several decades later, Lars Embäck explores
and processes memories of a complicated childhood through
writing, drawing and collage. In parallel, the past as it
has been preserved in medical records, official transcripts,
photographs and newspaper cuttings are open to him and the
reader. Together, the two parts reflect each other like changeable
repetitions in an elusive pattern.
"Family Life" is the culmination
of more than two decades of exhibitions, artworks and
installations in which the artist Lars Embäck has tried
to address the legacy of his difficult childhood and his relationship
to his troubled parents.
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