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Bukowskis in partnership with Natalia Goldin Lundh

EXHIBITION SALE:

The Roses of Heliogabalus

A unique and uncompromising

international art collection with a dark theme

CURATOR: NATALIA GOLDIN LUNDH

21–30 September 2017, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm

Passion, malaise and dissent in over a hundred carefully selected works by international artists from art market darlings such as Eddie Martinez, Katherine Bernhardt and Bill Saylor to anonymous street artists such as Neckface. The collection has also tracked down controversial works by subcultural icons including Charles Gatewood, Trevor Brown, Justin Bartlett and Wes Lang. We are proud to present this exhibition, based on a unique private collection, sophisticated in its outlook and exceptional in its execution.

The Roman historical work Historia Augusta contains tales of the crazed teenage emperor Heliogabalus, (203 – 222 A.D.) During his short period in power, Heliogabalus frenetically and obstinately challenged every imaginable norm of contemporary Rome. He “... drove around Europe with a ten-tonne giant gilded phallus drawn by three hundred drugged oxen, and he selected his officials by penis size”*. Heliogabalus is best known for suffocating his guests to death beneath a never-ending sea of rose petals released from the ceiling during a banquet. Morals and ethics aside, from an aesthetic point of view, Heliogabalus’ epic gestures demonstrated a distinct creativity and grandeur. His uncompromising and cathartic revolt
against the concept of mankind’s purported rationality is a condition he shares with many artists throughout history. At odds with civilisation, the sense of an unresolvable tension between social order and mankind’s primordial nature generates a powerful internal pressure, a sense of suffocating dis-ease. Which must ultimately erupt in a wild process of liberation, for which, in the modern world, there is only one socially acceptable arena – art.

“The Roses of Heliogabalus” exhibition contains works by many acclaimed contemporary artists from the USA and Europe, who unleash this civilisation-malaise in various ways. Intense, revolutionary, explosive and usually politically incorrect. Welcome to an exhibition in which art is the outlet through which the tension is released.

Most of the works in the exhibition come from a private Swedish collection, built with focused concentration between 2004 and 2012. Additional works by interesting Swedish artists have been added to complement the concept of the exhibition.

In the interest of acquisition please contact Maria Granström maria.granstrom@bukowskis.com
and/or Natalia Goldin Lundh at hq@the-roses-of-heliogabalus.com

*Quote from Gabriella Håkansson, “Kejsaren och jag” (The Emperor and I).

Bill Saylor, USA
Small Doses, 2004
Oil and mixed media on canvas
244 x 183 cm

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Jules de Balincourt, USA
Seeing the Scene and Then Forgetting, 2006
Oil on board
35 x 28 cm

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Justin Bartlett, USA
Untitled, 2007
Ink on paper
43 x 35,5 cm, image
Framed with museum glass

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Anna Camner, Sweden
Endless Hawls of Rage 2008
Oil on plexi glass
41 x 71 cm

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Artworks by:
Katherine Bernhardt
Eddie Martinez
Wes Lang
Bill Saylor
Jules de Balincourt
Francine Spiegel
Brian Degraw
Taylor McKimens
Nan Goldin
Chris Lindig
Justin Bartlett
Brendan Cass
Stefan Danielsson
Trevor Brown
Liz MarkusBrian Montuori

Neckface
Sante D’Orazio
Suzanna Sinclair
Brion Gysin
Mat Brinkman
Juliana Beasley
Charles Gatewood
Joe Grillo/Dearraindrop
Justin Samson
Lars Nilsson
Anna Camner
Ann-Sofi Sidén
Anders Stimmer
JH Engström
Dwayne Moser
Hanna Hedman

For further information and press images, please contact:

Maria Granström
Malmö
Maria Granström
Site manager Malmö
+46 (0)739 40 08 09