ERIK LINDMAN

Open Hands Almine Rech 11 January–22 February 2014 Brussels

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Erik Lindman interviewed by Nicolas Trembley

For his first solo exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels, Erik Lindman created six large scale works, one medium work and a selection of five smaller paintings which correlate between the two spaces he conceived for the venue.

The deliberately minimal hanging of the pieces, forces the spectator to concentrate on how they have adapted to the imposing volume of the gallery space. Whilst his previous works were largely made of found objects, sometimes barely modified, this new series is a return to painting and abstraction. The paintings are made of several elements which create a frame for a central component. This component is autonomous or may have been taken from another painting which didn’t work as intened. Nicolas Trembley interviewed the artist in his new Brooklyn studio in November 2013, while he was finalizing his work for the exhibition.

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Photo © Sven Laurent - Let me shoot for you at Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

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About the Artist

Erik Lindman is by his own admission a painter who is not trying to change things as such. From his writing alone, one can gauge that his is a serious intent, nonetheless to add meaningfully, for his own time and generation, to the complex discourse of abstract painting in terms of its inherent content and subject matter. His earlier paintings reminded this viewer of the more simplified advanced abstractions, executed both as painting and as coloured paper collages, by Ljubov Popova and Olga Rosanova–two of the so-called Amazons of the Russian Avant-Garde. Today, Lindman attempts to achieve in his paintings a personal imagery that in its own way is part reminiscent of the Russian icon tradition. He amazingly succeeds in doing this in spite of the heavy burden of the abstract tradition of the last hundred years.

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