Eva Lange gently moves her sandpaper over the surface of the plaster. She finds her way into the basic form of the volume in a sensuous search for life. The volume is stretched, it widens and skews, becomes human. Fragile geometry, a ball, a cylinder, a stand that tells about clouds and about body, about memories and emotions. And the work on the sandpaper continues tirelessly day in and day out to find just the exact expression – nothing else.
Per Kesselmar layeres thin layers of paint on his hard surface, aluminium and iron with a roller. The result is paintings filled with infinity. The works open up for our entry. It’s subtle, it’s beautiful. This is art without compromise. Art occupied by the complications of life, art that is about finding a light in the dark.
Welcome to see in Liljevalchs+ two of Sweden’s foremost poets in sculpture and painting in halls made for their sparse expression.
Eva Lange was born in Stockholm in 1935 where she also lives today. She is educated at Konstfack and Kungl. Academy of Fine Arts 1959–64 in Stockholm. Since 1998 she is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. In 2015, Eva Lange was awarded the Sergel Prize. In the past, she has received, among other things, Prince Eugen’s medal for her work as an artist.
Per Kesselmar, born in Stockholm in 1960, lives and works in Stockholm. He was educated at Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Gothenburg from 1984 to 1986 and further at Kungl. Stockholm School of Fine Arts 1986–90. Per Kesselmar was awarded the Bærtling Scholarship in 1995 and sten A Olsson’s cultural scholarship in 2017.
They both have a wide range of exhibitions, nationally and internationally, behind them and are represented in state, private and municipal collections.
