Untitled
Signed Håkan Rehnberg and dated 2000 on the reverse. Oil on acrylic glass 80 x 75 cm.
Occasional insignificant scratches and stains.
Provenance
Galleri Nordenhake, Stockholm.
Swedish private collection, acquired from the above.
More information
In a conversation with Daniel Birnbaum, Håkan Rehnberg said this about his art:
"I move the colour around, as if ploughing through a somewhat unknown terrain, with a wandering and unpredictable gesture. Fundamental is how layers are visually and physically overturned. I stop at the moment when the painting has reached an ultimate expression of precision, often in a mix of euphoria and resignation. In some of the paintings, I test my work against Carl Fredrik Hill and his late paintings of beaches, where seaweed and sludge glimmer in the shallow tide. It is like a surface that emerges and recedes, everything lies beneath and above a shimmering water surface, twisting in the tide, both beautiful and repulsive at the same time. But it is not the visual connection I seek, but rather the idea of a ground and boundary in dissolution."
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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