Thomas Rydberg
whitecollarhosependuluminterpretation
3.6.-18.6.2017
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari, Jätkä 2
The story is as follows….
The artist calls a television fortuneteller to acquire personal information for month June.
The fortuneteller ‘reads’ his request as an amalgamated projection of his frustration, his hesitations and unspoken ambitions; she ‘sees’ him as a maker in flux. Her response is a paradoxical alignment of words with a broken narrative; an intuitive blurb for a future.
That answer becomes the title of this exhibition.
And yet this anecdote –as peculiar as it might appear– sheds a light on Thomas Rydberg’s appropriation of mechanisms of intuition and contextual abstraction; mechanisms which have become prominent characteristics in his recent body of work.
Rough, almost abrupt painterly gestures, scratches and tactical additions of wool construct a vibrant chaos that in some occasions appears to morph into cannibal-like figures with somewhat voyeuristic attributes. Those paintings seem to propose a violent unmasking, bringing to the foreground screams and disorder. A plurality of forms and aesthetic mannerisms object all minimalistic tendencies and flirt with a long expressionistic tradition.
Rydberg’s intuitive art making is nothing more and nothing less than a direct, uncensored, unsolicited interpretation of a disembodied, deranged and frantic world; an abstraction of a raptured universe. And like the fortuneteller, the viewer is called upon to subjectively interpret it as a fragmented, discontinuous narrative.
With special mention to Ishtar Maria, charging 2,95€ per minute.
Text: Nikos Doulos
More information:
Thomas Rydberg
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