Heniderna

by Ulrik Samuelson

Artist Ulrik Samuelson (Sverige, född 1935)

Alternate Title

The Henides

Date2019-2020

MediumMixed media on canvas

DimensionsBildmått: 200 × 190 cm Yttermått: 200,7 × 190,5 × 3 cm

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden

Object NumberMOM/2021/464

CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkEight golden pillars or columns against a dramatic landscape in black and red. Not straight but tottering, slightly fragmented. Rooted neither at the base nor holding up a ceiling or beam/architrave of the kind seen in ancient Greek temples. They appear like the sentinels of an earlier civilisation, preventing our gaze from penetrating further into the landscape. Ulrik Samuelson’s painterly practice is in dialogue with both his own earlier works and art history. The columns, the black paint and the gold also feature in his artistic design for the Kungsträdgården underground station. Associations bounce as if in an echo chamber: abstract art, Nordic romantic landscape painting, abstract expressionism and Marcel Duchamp.
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