Galleri Riis ställde ut Andreas Erikssons Meander-målningar i Stockholm 18 april – 16 May 2015. I texten till utställningen beskrev de Erikssons måleri som, likt Per Kirkebys penseldrag, för tankarna till geologiska lager och vattnets påverkan på topografin:
” ‘A meander, in general, is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or river’. So reads the Wikipedia description. Andreas Eriksson’s new paintings have much in common with this natural phenomenon. The flat plains where the meander forms, are also present in Eriksson’s artistry, geographically, as well as a metaphor for the canvas.
Meanderbilder is an exhibition of paintings. Eriksson has worked on these paintings, like a meander cutting through surfaces and layers of pigment. Starting nowhere and ending nowhere, erosion takes place across the entire surface. In some of the works one flow of brushwork is abruptly stopped short, in others underlying colour returns like a vein farther into the picture, painted over and then re-appearing. In nature, the material that seeps down through water and is deposited at the bottom is called sediments. Eriksson’s paintings nearly always contain a hidden surface, a layer equal in significance to the immediately visible ones.”
Andreas Erikssons karriär har gått spikrakt uppåt sedan han som artonåring antogs till Kungliga Konsthögskolan i Stockholm. Hans stora genombrott kom när han representerade Sverige på Venedigbiennalen 2011. Eriksson arbetar inom en rad discipliner bland annat måleri, fotografi, textil och brons. Idag representeras Andreas Eriksson av Stephen Friedman Gallery i London och Galleri Susanne Ottesen i Köpenhamn.