Viktor Rosdahl
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"The Martyrs"
Signed Viktor Rosdahl and dated 2007 verso. Painting on processed tarpaulin with a casted cupola, 161 cm in diameter.
Exhibitions
Konsthögskolan i Malmö, 2007.
Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö, 2007.
Hannover Kunstverein, "plattform 4", 2007.
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, "Headlines & Footnotes", 15 May - 21 September 2008.
Gävle konstcentrum, "Om ljuset tar oss", 18 June - 28 August 2011.
More information
Motivet är en parafras på Dierc de Bouts målning "The Martyrdom of St Erasmus" från 1458, och del av en lång serie verk med samma motiv. Viktor Rosdahl skrev i en text 2007:
"This was one of the next works, simply called the martyrs. Were the two characters have aged some, but also found their way out in space. I wanted too give them sort of a God like appearance and was very engulfed by old Persian paintings and early Russian Bysantin which with it´s thick outlines and simplified abstracted language resembled graffiti. I found the mud filled and stinking tarpaulin in a yard of a friends house and it proved to have certain light transparent qualities. I did a cast in plastic in order to have lights coming from behind it while it still hung on the wall. And then used silver and golden pens, which I normally were using writing on the city when my feet happened to take those paths."