Humlebaek, Denmark
June 2021
Mamma Andersson: Humdrum Daysat Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is the first major exhibition by Mamma Andersson in Denmark. Featuring almost 60 works including 10 new paintings made specifically for the exhibition, the show spans 15 years of Andersson's practice. The presentation was developed in close collaboration with the artist and is accompanied by a catalogue with texts by Magnus Florin, Karl Ove Knausgård, Barry Schwabsky, and an interview by the curator Marie Laurberg.
Andersson (b. 1962, Luleå, Sweden), lives and works in Stockholm. Inspired by filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors, the artist’s compositions are often dreamlike and expressive. Her subject matter revolves around melancholic landscapes and nondescript, private interiors. While stylistic references include turn-of-the-century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, Andersson’s evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes are uniquely her own. “There is almost cinematic suspense to many of her paintings. A scenic sense of a place where something is going to happen or has just happened,” says Laurberg.
The exhibition reaffirms the museum’s commitment to painting and extends the scope of earlier exhibitions of artists of the same generation such as Cecily Brown, Daniel Richter, and Peter Doig.
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