Karl Holmqvist Books

Ripeness is black with Victor Man. His greys and modulated blacks are non-minimalist, anti-hard edge. They are alien to the uniform, pigmentary, black paintings of Motherwell, Kline, Newman, or Still, which originate in a conceptually sensorial take on color. Man?s work also differs from the overlytextured, narcissistic, and self-consciously hand-crafted blacks of Hartung or Soulages. The blue-green-black tones in Victor Man are ?gments rather than pigments. They are reminiscent of the medieval grisaille, that consummate technique for encapsulating a dazzling0Texts: Rachel Corbett, Enzo Cucchi, Erwin Kessler, Karl Holmqvist00Exhibition: Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany (11.09. - 31.10.2020).

Under Marabouparkens första år som konstinstitution intervjuades konstnärerna Peter Thörneby, Katarina Löfström, Bella Rune, Luca Frei, Johanna Billing, Karl Holmqvist, Liisa Lounila, Jakob Kolding, Alexander Gutke, Fia Backström, Olivia Plender inför de separatutställningar de alla kom att göra på Marabouparken annex. Den inledande frågan; 'Varför blev du konstnär?' gav ofta överraskande svar och ledde samtalen i oväntade riktningar. During Marabouparken's first years as an art institution the artists Peter Thörneby, Katarina Löfström, Bella Rune, Luca Frei, Johanna Billing, Karl Holmqvist, Liisa Lounila, Jakob Kolding, Alexander Gutke, Fia Backström and Olivia Plender were interviewed in preparation for the up-coming solo exhbitions that they had been invited to make. The opening question 'Why did you become an artist' often resulted in surprising answers and led the conversations in unexpected directions.