UNTIL 20 NOV: "IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER" BY MARTIN GUSTAVSSON AT MARIA STENFORS, LONDON
Maria Stenfors presents a new series of paintings by Swedish artist Martin Gustavsson. The exhibition is a painted multitude consisting of over 70 paintings installed in a grid covering the gallery walls. The random combinations of these painterly parts make infinite configurations activating hidden symmetries and patterns, perpetually refiguring their individual inter-dependency.
In No Particular Order, returnsto the mythic dilemma of Orpheus. In failing to resist the injunction, “Don’t look back!”. Gustavsson’s return is one that finds something other than tragedy in Orpheus’ story: a profusion of painted surfaces, with no beginning or no end. Gustavsson’s paintings suggest that by resisting that narrative closure, we may find loops and coils, traces and skids, that bring us closer to the lost underworld.
MARIA STENFORS
Unit 4, 21 Wren Street
London wc1x 0hf
+44 (0) 20 7837 0819
info@mariastenfors.com
www.mariastenfors.com
Opening hours:
Tue-Fri 11-6
Sat 11-3
Until 20 November 2010.
