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Contemporary Art & Design presents Linn Fernström


Linn Fernström ”Övermålat”


“She crashed onto the Swedish art scene almost 15 years ago, dividing it into two camps. Linn Fernström has undeniably aroused strong feelings every time she has stretched a piece of linen cloth across a sturdy frame and held her paintbrush against the canvas. (. ...) The formats are large, the palette rich and the brushwork is powerful. The figures resemble ones we’ve met before. A young woman, who shares the artist’s features, wanders alone with her thoughts, closed off and mysterious, yet exposed to our gaze. A screaming naked baby reaches its arms towards empty space. Monkeys dance. Wide-eyed children with serious expressions, as if no one taught them how to laugh. They are all there, surrounded by gigantic budgerigars, mayflies, smaller birds and clusters of balloons."


Extract from the review in the daily Svenska Dagbladet

Linn Fernström is an artist of contrasts. Extremes meet in her often large canvases; the beautiful encountering the grotesque, the idyllic clashing with terror, the ethereal mixed with power, and the momentous interplaying with the trivial. When all is said and done perhaps Fernström is an artist who paints ‘Life’. Without judging the ingredients that fill our days and years with events and impressions according to some assumed criteria, Fernström allows them to figure indiscriminately and interact together in a place decided upon by the artist. Fernström is a conductor who with an iron fist leads an experimental orchestra. Does this sound paradoxical? Perhaps, but therein lies her particular strength and originality.

The work is for sale at Bukowskis' Live Auction Contemporary Art & Design.
Estimate 500 000 - 600 000 SEK

Viewing: April 21 – 25, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm
Open: Weekdays 11 am – 6 pm, Weekends 11 am – 4 pm
Live Auction: April 26 | Stockholm

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Works by Linn Fernström at Contemporary Art & Design


283. Linn Fernström, "Spelande".
283. Linn Fernström, "Spelande".
Hammer price 
Unsold
Estimate
30 000 - 40 000 SEK
322. Linn Fernström, "Huvudslunga".
322. Linn Fernström, "Huvudslunga".
Hammer price 
40 000 SEK
Estimate
40 000 - 50 000 SEK
330. Linn Fernström, 'Övermålat'.
330. Linn Fernström, 'Övermålat'.
Hammer price 
350 000 SEK
Estimate
500 000 - 600 000 SEK
362. Linn Fernström, "Storfånget".
362. Linn Fernström, "Storfånget".
Hammer price 
55 000 SEK
Estimate
30 000 - 40 000 SEK
367. Linn Fernström, "Vrålet".
367. Linn Fernström, "Vrålet".
Hammer price 
26 000 SEK
Estimate
30 000 - 40 000 SEK


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Louise Wrede
Stockholm
Louise Wrede
Specialist Contemporary Art, Private Sales
+46 (0)739 40 08 19
Karin Aringer
Stockholm
Karin Aringer
Specialist Photographs and Contemporary Art
+46 (0)702 63 70 57
Lena Rydén
Stockholm
Lena Rydén
Head of Art, Specialist Modern and 19th century Art
+46 (0)707 78 35 71