TILDA LOVELL
I Follow You Into the Dark
Lars Bohman Gallery has the pleasure to show its second solo exhibition with Tilda Lovell. The exhibition consists of new sculptures inspired by The Garden of Earthly Delights painted by Hieronymus Bosch in the early 16th century. By a narrative and imagery filled with human and animal beings, Lovell establishes a dialogue with Bosch whose painting has been interpreted both as a depiction of morality gone awry and of the lost paradise. In her much appreciated debut in the gallery in 2005, Lovell showed the film work Who is Gunnar?, as well as the installations The Choir Project and My Only Sunshine. As in her earlier exhibition, Lovell installs the works theatrically and use lighting for a dramatic effect.
From the Corner of the Eye, 2008, is a crouching figure, standing on sturdy legs made of weathered wood, an egg shaped body painfully pierced by branches and the face with an introspective gaze. The sculpture goes back to a well-known character, the Tree Man, in Bosch' painting and which is considered a self portrait. But Lovell's work is three-dimensional, it steps out into the space, into our time and into the discussions of our days. From the Corner of the Eye embodies an answer to the riddle posed by the Sphinx to Oedipus – What it is that walks on four legs in the morning, on two during the day and on three as the evening comes? The answer is Man and all that it means to be born a human being.
In another part of the gallery, an angel like figure hangs suspended, with a grinning face and the body covered with scales as made of sacramental wafers. Perhaps it is the angel of death but it is also a bearer of light and a messenger from another world.
In her sculptures, Lovell uses brittle debris from nature and everyday life, paper, bone and metal, as if the works have taken shape from the world around and as if the material have been transformed and these figures created. Lovell's voice is personal and deeply existential. The title of the exhibition "I Follow You Into the Dark", inspired by a song of Death Cab for Cutie, is dark but offers a glimmer of hope – someone is coming along into the darkness.
Tilda Lovell is born in 1972 in Mölndal. She received her education at the Royal College of Fine Arts in Stockholm where lives and works. "I Follow You Into the Dark" is her second exhibition at Lars Bohman Gallery. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Göteborg Art Museum and Krognoshuset Aura, Lund, and have taken part in several group exhibitions such as "Make Out", Studio 44, Stockholm, "Constructions of Nature", Uppsala Art Museum, and "20 Years of Grant Recipients, The Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation", Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm.
For further information, please contact the gallery.
I Follow You Into the Dark
Lars Bohman Gallery has the pleasure to show its second solo exhibition with Tilda Lovell. The exhibition consists of new sculptures inspired by The Garden of Earthly Delights painted by Hieronymus Bosch in the early 16th century. By a narrative and imagery filled with human and animal beings, Lovell establishes a dialogue with Bosch whose painting has been interpreted both as a depiction of morality gone awry and of the lost paradise. In her much appreciated debut in the gallery in 2005, Lovell showed the film work Who is Gunnar?, as well as the installations The Choir Project and My Only Sunshine. As in her earlier exhibition, Lovell installs the works theatrically and use lighting for a dramatic effect.
From the Corner of the Eye, 2008, is a crouching figure, standing on sturdy legs made of weathered wood, an egg shaped body painfully pierced by branches and the face with an introspective gaze. The sculpture goes back to a well-known character, the Tree Man, in Bosch' painting and which is considered a self portrait. But Lovell's work is three-dimensional, it steps out into the space, into our time and into the discussions of our days. From the Corner of the Eye embodies an answer to the riddle posed by the Sphinx to Oedipus – What it is that walks on four legs in the morning, on two during the day and on three as the evening comes? The answer is Man and all that it means to be born a human being.
In another part of the gallery, an angel like figure hangs suspended, with a grinning face and the body covered with scales as made of sacramental wafers. Perhaps it is the angel of death but it is also a bearer of light and a messenger from another world.
In her sculptures, Lovell uses brittle debris from nature and everyday life, paper, bone and metal, as if the works have taken shape from the world around and as if the material have been transformed and these figures created. Lovell's voice is personal and deeply existential. The title of the exhibition "I Follow You Into the Dark", inspired by a song of Death Cab for Cutie, is dark but offers a glimmer of hope – someone is coming along into the darkness.
Tilda Lovell is born in 1972 in Mölndal. She received her education at the Royal College of Fine Arts in Stockholm where lives and works. "I Follow You Into the Dark" is her second exhibition at Lars Bohman Gallery. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Göteborg Art Museum and Krognoshuset Aura, Lund, and have taken part in several group exhibitions such as "Make Out", Studio 44, Stockholm, "Constructions of Nature", Uppsala Art Museum, and "20 Years of Grant Recipients, The Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation", Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm.
For further information, please contact the gallery.