Helene Billgren
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'sk askunge lämnar hus'
Signed Helene Billgren and dated 08 verso. Acrylic on mdf 61 x 61 cm.
Provenance
Angelika Knäpper Gallery, Stockholm.
More information
The painting "sk askunge lämnar hus" was exhibited at what would become Helene Billgren's breakthrough exhibition at Angelika Knäpper Gallery in Stockholm in the spring of 2009.
She describes her paintings in her book "Den andra vägen" (The Other Way), 2011:
"I don't like to paint faces, eye eye nose mouth. It's almost impossible for me to capture both sadness and joy in an expression. Instead, I try to create that through other means, like having the hair flying or not. Additionally, I like to distort the body slightly. For example, I often remove the arms, but removing an eye hasn't worked so far, unless I cover it with bangs or something more natural like that. It's not good if the colour looks too normal. That's an opinion I have in everyday life as well. My favorite figure is someone between Snow White and a señorita, both with black hair. It's an image from my memory archive."