Bara i ditt sinne

by Peter Wallström

Artist Peter Wallström (Sverige, född 1960)

Alternate Title

Only in Your Mind

Date2018

MediumMixed media

DimensionsBildmått: 41,5 × 50 cm Yttermått: 42 × 50,7 × 2,5 cm

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Object NumberMOM/2021/402

CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is on longterm loan

About the artworkSomething is about to happen. In the two paintings facing each other, Peter Wallström creates scenes populated with mysterious figures against a backdrop of dreamlike landscapes and buildings, shimmering celestial bodies. Like the characters in Only in Your Mind and The Last Revisit, we are drawn away or towards a place within ourselves. One of Wallström’s sources of inspiration is Caspar David Friedrich’s early 19th-century paintings, with averted figures against wondrous panoramas and skies – the small human being faced with the great mystery. In Wallström’s paintings, the unprimed canvas is often glimpsed, and the tender treatment of coloured materials, glitter glue and applied pieces of canvas, give a tactile quality to the surface.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad på dukens baksida: Peter Wallström -18, Påskrift på dukens baksida: "Bara i ditt sinne" Selected exhibition history Nyförvärvsutställningen (den 5 februari 2022 - den 14 augusti 2022) Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Works by the artist