Lars Bohman Gallery is proud to announce the first exhibition at the gallery by Swedish artist Marcus Eek. The exhibition consists of a new series of paintings.
Marcus Eek made his debut at the end of the 1990s with a series of paintings that related both to nature and technology. Nature and our relationship to it has continued to be a recurring theme in his work. One often finds objects without an obvious physical form, such as fire, clouds or water; these objects are tangible but at the same time not. The same may be said of the composition. Marcus Eek has himself described his work as wordless rather than narrative, and the viewer encounters a tranquil poetry in his work. The large expanses allow us to create our own stories and provide us with space for our own reflections.
In this exhibition one finds a contradiction that provides tension - the small contra the large, the specific contra the universal. The ships can, as it were, take us on a journey within the enormous sphere in which they are placed. Despite space and time they appear to float safely towards their destinations. Marcus Eek comments on his paintings in this exhibition thus:
For me personally these vessels also carry an emotional expression that hovers between the joy of discovery and powerlessness. Underneath an incomprehensibly large space a ship bobs, the grand total of our technological advances at that time - an old wooden tub to discover worlds with, but in the end still locked in the Milky Way’s backyard. Just as free as a cork inside a bottle.
Born in 1968 in Stockholm, Marcus Eek lives and works in Berlin. He attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm (1992-1997) and the Academie Minerva in Groningen, Holland (1995).
Marcus Eek has had several solo exhibitions in Sweden including: Galleri Mia Sundberg, Stockholm; Galleri Ahnlund, Umeå; Skärets Konsthall, Höganäs, and Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Stockholm. Recent group exhibitions include: ART FORUM, Berlin; Contemporary Art from Sweden, at the Scandinavian Embassy, Berlin and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt; Stop for a Moment, Arken, Copenhagen and Åbo Museum, Finland.
Marcus Eek made his debut at the end of the 1990s with a series of paintings that related both to nature and technology. Nature and our relationship to it has continued to be a recurring theme in his work. One often finds objects without an obvious physical form, such as fire, clouds or water; these objects are tangible but at the same time not. The same may be said of the composition. Marcus Eek has himself described his work as wordless rather than narrative, and the viewer encounters a tranquil poetry in his work. The large expanses allow us to create our own stories and provide us with space for our own reflections.
In this exhibition one finds a contradiction that provides tension - the small contra the large, the specific contra the universal. The ships can, as it were, take us on a journey within the enormous sphere in which they are placed. Despite space and time they appear to float safely towards their destinations. Marcus Eek comments on his paintings in this exhibition thus:
For me personally these vessels also carry an emotional expression that hovers between the joy of discovery and powerlessness. Underneath an incomprehensibly large space a ship bobs, the grand total of our technological advances at that time - an old wooden tub to discover worlds with, but in the end still locked in the Milky Way’s backyard. Just as free as a cork inside a bottle.
Born in 1968 in Stockholm, Marcus Eek lives and works in Berlin. He attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm (1992-1997) and the Academie Minerva in Groningen, Holland (1995).
Marcus Eek has had several solo exhibitions in Sweden including: Galleri Mia Sundberg, Stockholm; Galleri Ahnlund, Umeå; Skärets Konsthall, Höganäs, and Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Stockholm. Recent group exhibitions include: ART FORUM, Berlin; Contemporary Art from Sweden, at the Scandinavian Embassy, Berlin and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt; Stop for a Moment, Arken, Copenhagen and Åbo Museum, Finland.