29 May – 19 June 2010
Opening Friday May 28, 18 – 20 pm
Galleri Pictura / Skånska Konstmuseum
Lund
Mathias Kristersson (SE), Ursula Nistrup (DK), Mikko Kuorinki (FIN), Lina Selander (SE), Aeron M. Bergman (US) & Alejandra Salinas (ES)
The Weather Forecast is the first part of a three-fold exhibition project, A Minor History of Creativity, in which the artistic process is unfolded and examined.
The first exhibition takes place at Galleri Pictura in Lund and offers an insight into the part of the artistic practice which is normally hidden from all but the artist: the stage of incubation before the work is deemed ‘complete’. Most people know very little about this process of testing, researching and experimenting, because it is usually completed before the artwork reaches the public.
The Weather Forecast offers a glimpse into the ideas and the thought processes that lay the foundation for the artists’ practices, and in particular for the art works which they will produce in the project’s later stages. The exhibition therefore consists of unfinished works, sketches, ideas and models that point to an artistic process and knowledge production, which is still open and in motion.
But how can an idea be presented when it is yet to find its form, or is a mere sketch that has not encountered its material? Why should we engage with these unstable beginnings and fragile outlines when the finished work presumably will convey the artist’s intentions in a more distinct and differentiated manner?
Unlike most exhibitions, The Weather Forecast is not concerned with the artistic object, but instead with the process of coming-to-knowledge. The initial stage in the artistic process may provide us with an understanding of the personal or political, historical or contemporary references that the works speak of. It may reveal to us how the artists comprehend and relate to the world and how these observations and experiences point to new ways of understanding it.
For further information, please contact
Trine Friis Sørensen • T: +45 2666 0878 • @ trinefs@gmail
More info and press images: http://aminorhistoryofcreativity.wordpress.com & www.galleripictura.se
Pictura / Skånska Konstmuseum, Svartbrödersgatan 3, Lund
Tuesday – Saturday 14-17 pm, Thursday 16-19 pm
