I liked this show. It sort of had that faint palette and touch that reminded me of Luc Tuymans, but the imagery and associations were totally different. She had some large split panels, in which the seam became a kind of horizon line in the landscape, sometimes acting like the line where water meets land, with that kind of reflection where everything above is right side up and everything below is upside down.
Refreshing to look at. Doesn't require thinking, just feeling. Most contemporary work (including mine) REQUIRES so much of the viewer. Sometimes it's good to look at something like this that just offers itself up, without pretense.
I don't appreciate this work. It's not pretentious enough for me. i like thinking. i particularly don't like country corner realism paintings of the contemporary art world. (check out the web site) pretending to be a conceptual take. just because it's a painting of video. that just smirking at the contemporary art world. well, i could go on and on.
hey burgerder, these are not paintings of videos. where did you get that info?
andersson's paintings are SO swedish... landscape tradition with feelings of isolation and a strong connection to the natural world. they appear foreign and somewhat traditional because we aren't connected to the same things here in the US...
I like Mark Tansey better, he's pretentious, and his paint is so thin...plus he uses(d) stuff like tinfoil and paper to "rag" the paint -additive/subtractive.
zipthwung, I think it had to do with the question of whether or not paul is really dead and whether or not william shears was just as good as the real thing.
This painting is very brown. Reminds me of my first painting class (watercolor) and I used a lot of green because everything was green. THen I learned about local color, and how people see differently, and then I figured out you could have a style apart from skill level. That blew my fucking mind.
...can't buy me lunch....but...all you need is cash.
Also, I hate the country. Bland dreary and undifferentiated - especially in the winter. Jesus christ. Where I grew up the clouds were about a hundred feet above your head, which is skull crushingly low if you ask me. that's why the plains indians painted themselves. THe Lakota even painted their ponies, if you know what I mean.
omg! the swedish thing thats it! i was just thinking it does not remind me that much of where i grew up i wonder y i feel that way, then that comment triggered it! my first girlfriend was right off the boat swedish and her folks had these landscapes (maybe on fabric of some kind) and a puzzle under a piece of glass on the coffee table with landscapes that not looked but felt a hell of alot like this show - in fact her whole house did.
oh boy that painting is not very good... but I am looking at on the web. Nothing wrong with landscape painting. Turner was great, all the Japanese ukiyo-e view prints.
And lets not forget Geroge Innes. Now I'm getting to traditional for u all..
Liked this show a lot. It's nice to see someone in today's scene that isn't afraid of a presenting a rather direct lanscape painting. This painting pictured wasn't my favorite though. "About a Girl" (2005) is my favorite. There is just something beyond your typical Tuymens' snapshot-to-painting going on in these works. I felt significant psychological tension with her work. A sense of incompleteness which I feel most people feel in their lives if they are honest. This anxiety is important to me. Not to get all faux-spiritual here. Some painters know how to do it and others just make paintings that attempt to capture this. Andersson makes me forget I'm looking at a painting and draws me into her fragmented/cold, yet welcoming, world. Haven't seen a painter this year at Zwirner I didn't like yet. Nice glow in that gallery too.
I agree with ww. I really liked this show; went back to see it again and got more out of it the second time. Not much work out there gives as much. There are a lot of moments in her paintings where process and decision are apparent without sacrificing a sense of place. They seem really invented & arrived-at.
Her approach is consistently un-fussy... she knows how to walk away & resist the urge to "finish," so the work has an openness & directness that plays against the palette and subject matter.
Now this is the sort of painting my maman would like. Peculiar.
No, I don't like this. Forgettably straight-forward. As soon as I look away from the browser I forget what it looks like abstractly and all I can remember about this is "snowy muddy hillside." There isn't enought happening for me in the palette, compostion, whatever to keep me interested. Repetitive little houses...
Though sometimes I wish tripledisel's habit of posting more than one painting in each entry would continue, as when I looked up the rest of Mamma Anderson's work I was surprised. Very different, at least.
And I am delighted to hear some non-NYC painters will make it up here! You have to do some London and Paris painters, I hope.
Vlahos Boyiajees, thx! went to the opening - i am a horrible writer, ment what is it about that painting something really draws me in,- everyone should check it out.
prop--can you tell me how those "monoprinted" textures, which seem quite random to me, relate to your comments about patience and looking. These paintings don't seem to be about observation of nature. which is probably a good thing in this day and age. or not?
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Mamma Andersson
@ David Zwiner
525 West 19th Street (between 10th Ave. and West St.)
New York, NY 10011
I am going to be posting some non New York painters in the summer.
I liked this show. It sort of had that faint palette and touch that reminded me of Luc Tuymans, but the imagery and associations were totally different. She had some large split panels, in which the seam became a kind of horizon line in the landscape, sometimes acting like the line where water meets land, with that kind of reflection where everything above is right side up and everything below is upside down.
Refreshing to look at. Doesn't require thinking, just feeling. Most contemporary work (including mine) REQUIRES so much of the viewer. Sometimes it's good to look at something like this that just offers itself up, without pretense.
I liked them better after a second visit. Wasn't too keen on the paint, but it works. They are refreshing. Outside NYC painters? Hmmm.
I don't appreciate this work. It's not pretentious enough for me. i like thinking. i particularly don't like country corner realism paintings of the contemporary art world. (check out the web site) pretending to be a conceptual take. just because it's a painting of video. that just smirking at the contemporary art world. well, i could go on and on.
hey burgerder, these are not paintings of videos. where did you get that info?
andersson's paintings are SO swedish... landscape tradition with feelings of isolation and a strong connection to the natural world. they appear foreign and somewhat traditional because we aren't connected to the same things here in the US...
WW, is her name really Mamma?
I like Mark Tansey better, he's pretentious, and his paint is so thin...plus he uses(d) stuff like tinfoil and paper to "rag" the paint -additive/subtractive.
And hes in the moma.
I mean the met.
comfort food, show kinda made me homesick - i am a sucker for face value.
hi jd! her real name is karin.
the work is so subtle. she uses a beautiful monoprinting technique that makes for memory-jogging weirdness. they are slow and sweet and personal.
Where did the Mamma come from?
I love it. Like Grandma Moses.
cooky,
got milk?
You know that shit about Derrida and deconstruction and how the signifier is not the signified, therefore the shadow and shit like that?
I still don't get it.
Sign me:
Carton
pinkandlacepony: stockholm
Pony,
She's married to Jockum Nordstrum.
One can see the interchange...
...Within the Zwirner stable.
I meant interplay.
dude, call it interchange... but it's more than that... it's a swedish thing. an aesthetic. it's somehow built in, like the german precision thing.
Agreed W.W.!
zipthwung,
I think it had to do with the question
of whether or not paul is really dead
and whether or not william shears
was just as good as the real thing.
This painting is very brown. Reminds me of my first painting class (watercolor) and I used a lot of green because everything was green. THen I learned about local color, and how people see differently, and then I figured out you could have a style apart from skill level. That blew my fucking mind.
...can't buy me lunch....but...all you need is cash.
Also, I hate the country. Bland dreary and undifferentiated - especially in the winter. Jesus christ. Where I grew up the clouds were about a hundred feet above your head, which is skull crushingly low if you ask me.
that's why the plains indians painted themselves. THe Lakota even painted their ponies, if you know what I mean.
check this shit out
wild.
It's so folky, with modern subject matter and bric a brac. I like my landscapes less scratchy, more smooth. Like the one I live in.
Like that one "About a Girl" Dare I say the best thing about scandanavians is the way they look?
Whos that guy Carl Larsson? Thru to Althoff. Folky.
omg! the swedish thing thats it! i was just thinking it does not remind me that much of where i grew up i wonder y i feel that way, then that comment triggered it! my first girlfriend was right off the boat swedish and her folks had these landscapes (maybe on fabric of some kind) and a puzzle under a piece of glass on the coffee table with landscapes that not looked but felt a hell of alot like this show - in fact her whole house did.
you people make my head hurt.
Lucian Freud now there's a painter...
oh boy that painting is not very good...
but I am looking at on the web.
Nothing wrong with landscape painting.
Turner was great, all the Japanese ukiyo-e view prints.
And lets not forget Geroge Innes.
Now I'm getting to traditional for u all..
Barkeep!...
Liked this show a lot. It's nice to see someone in today's scene that isn't afraid of a presenting a rather direct lanscape painting. This painting pictured wasn't my favorite though. "About a Girl"
(2005) is my favorite. There is just something beyond your typical Tuymens' snapshot-to-painting going on in these works. I felt significant psychological tension with her work. A sense of incompleteness which I feel most people feel in their lives if they are honest. This anxiety is important to me. Not to get all faux-spiritual here. Some painters know how to do it and others just make paintings that attempt to capture this.
Andersson makes me forget I'm looking at a painting and draws me into her fragmented/cold, yet welcoming, world. Haven't seen a painter this year at Zwirner I didn't like yet. Nice glow in that gallery too.
cut n paste
http://www.latribunedelart.com/Expositions_2004/Whistler_-_Nocturne2.JPG
I like a landscape with attitude
what is it About a Girl.
I agree with ww. I really liked this show; went back to see it again and got more out of it the second time. Not much work out there gives as much. There are a lot of moments in her paintings where process and decision are apparent without sacrificing a sense of place. They seem really invented & arrived-at.
Her approach is consistently un-fussy... she knows how to walk away & resist the urge to "finish," so the work has an openness & directness that plays against the palette and subject matter.
I think she's pretty great. Quietly radical.
Now this is the sort of painting my maman would like. Peculiar.
No, I don't like this. Forgettably straight-forward. As soon as I look away from the browser I forget what it looks like abstractly and all I can remember about this is "snowy muddy hillside."
There isn't enought happening for me in the palette, compostion, whatever to keep me interested. Repetitive little houses...
Though sometimes I wish tripledisel's habit of posting more than one painting in each entry would continue, as when I looked up the rest of Mamma Anderson's work I was surprised. Very different, at least.
And I am delighted to hear some non-NYC painters will make it up here! You have to do some London and Paris painters, I hope.
Go Argentina!!!
"About a Girl" can be viewed here : http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/115/work_2141.htm
Vlahos Boyiajees, thx! went to the opening - i am a horrible writer, ment what is it about that painting something really draws me in,- everyone should check it out.
prop--can you tell me how those "monoprinted" textures, which seem quite random to me, relate to your comments about patience and looking. These paintings don't seem to be about observation of nature. which is probably a good thing in this day and age. or not?
"what is it about a girl?"
I knew what you meant ;)
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