Untitled
Signed Håkan Rehnberg and dated 2002 verso. Oil on acrylic glass 67 x 75 cm.
Provenance
Sivert Oldenvi Collection, Stockholm.
Private Collection, Stockholm.
More information
Håkan Rehnberg explores and develops his own painting technique: oil paint on sandblasted acrylic glass. A technique that has similarities with American colour field painting by, for example, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko and with the abstract painting of the German artist Gerhard Richter.
Håkan Rehnberg has exhibited at many important institutions, both internationally and in Sweden. His career includes solo exhibitions at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2015), Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm/Berlin (2010, 2011, 2012, 2015), Malmö Konstmuseum (2007), Vida Konsthall, Öland (2005) and Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm (2002). Rehnberg was nominated for the Carnegie Art Award 2002 and represented Sweden at the Sydney Biennale 2010. Håkan Rehnberg has been a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 2000.
More about Håkan Rehnberg
Håkan Rehnberg is one of Sweden’s leading artists. He lives and works in Stockholm and has, for several decades, developed a form of painting that combines formal precision with a strong interest in the possibilities of colour and sensuality.
Rehnberg has developed a distinctive technique using oil paint on acrylic glass. By replacing the traditional canvas with acrylic glass, he transforms the physical qualities of painting. The material’s lightness and transparency emphasise the open and fluid character of his works.
His art can be related to the American Color Field tradition, with artists such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, as well as to the abstract painting of Gerhard Richter. Colour plays a central role in Rehnberg’s work, used both to reveal and conceal. His paintings thus move between the visible and the hidden, inviting questions about what we actually see.
Rehnberg has exhibited extensively in Sweden and internationally and has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts since 2000.
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