Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Oedip, Rothko and Anthology

December 7 - December 17, 2011



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Galeria Arta49 is excited to present a very special body of work featuring Martin Bladh.

Martin Bladh (1976) is a Swedish artist of multiple mediums. His work is dark, visceral, hypnotic and disturbing, laying bare themes of violence, obsession, fantasy, auto-eroticism, self-mutilation, domination, submission, narcissism. Further beyond that, there is also a tribal, base, essential quality to his work, a kind of saving grace which grounds his art and makes it extremely rare and extremely valid.

Martin Bladh’s name is also recognized from his involvement in the experimental, post-industrial outfits IRM and Skin Area. This exhibition explores the relationship between his music and visual art. The three collage series on display show Bladh’s obsession to mingle and crossbreed different type of media – music, literature and visuals - into a total work of art.

Oedipus Dethroned:
Eight collages made as a complement to the reissue of IRM’s second album Oedipus Dethroned from 2000.

Rothko Field:
Eight collages made as a complement to Skin Area’s third album Rothko Field from 2011.

Anthology:
Six collage drawings made as a complement to the upcoming IRM Anthology album 2012.

contact:
http://martinbladh-vf.blogspot.com/
mjbladh@hotmail.com

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