Galleri Flach

Andreas Johansson: From Where the Sun Now Stands

Flach — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:59:17 +0000

Galleri Flach are proud to present Andreas Johansson’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, “From Where the Sun Now Stands.”
The exhibition features a series of pop-up books with six pages, depicting a desolated and mythic environment. In the book appears a vacant lot from different perspectives, a place at the outskirt of society that is often visited by skateboard riders or people from the margins. In small fascinating miniature landscapes, we can study an environment where people spend time on their own terms or enter a free zone in an otherwise all too transparent and structured urban environment.

It is a drastic and fascinating meeting that occurs between the pop-up book’s innocent children’s book character, and the rugged environment’s connotations of youthful search for new and exciting context, as well as crime and drugs.

Andreas Johansson has long worked with collages where he cuts apart photographs and then builds up new environments, reminiscent of places we all recognize. As a young skateboard riders in Vaxjo, he was drawn to industrial and desolated places, which in his imagination could just as well have been an abandoned legendary skateboarding arena in the Arizona desert. That feeling of escape and daydreaming are captured in his collages. The artist portrays places, with a careful and skillful craftsmanship, that could be found just as much on the North American continent, as in a small Swedish town.

As the poetic title indicates, it is about exploring the surroundings from a more general position that symbolically points towards the sun. There is a particular sharpness in the images that highlights every detail, even if the source of the light remains unclear, and never identified.

Patrick Nilsson i Uppsala Nya tidning, om verket “Sensmoral or Death”

Flach — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:15:59 +0000

Hur ska vi hantera Auschwitz?

”Det skulle va kul att åka till Auschwitz!” På Förintelsens minnesdag reflekterar forskaren Tanja Schult över osäkerheten om hur man i privat språk och offentlig retorik ska förhålla sig till Förintelsen. Tanja Schult skriver om minnet av Förintelsen utifrån Patrik Nilssons konstverk Sensmoral or Death.

Text: Tanja Schult

UNT:s kulturredaktions märkliga förhållande till antisemitismen

Upsala Nya Tidnings kulturredaktions förhållande till antisemitismen är värd en anmärkning – eller två.
Text: Anna Ekström

SvD: Människan ensam i Jessica Faiss konst

Flach — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:49:25 +0000

Människan ensam i Jessica Faiss konst
Galleri Flach
Text: Håkan Nilsson

Om Larsson intresserar sig för rollspel och interaktion, är människan ensam i Jessica Faiss konst. Utställningen Solitude spänner mellan två videoprojektioner med helt olika temperament. Den första visar en närmast hallucinatorisk resa genom ett stadslandskap i skymningens sprakande färger, där svindeln förstärks av att projektionen visar samma filmmaterial rättvänt och spegelvänt samtidigt…