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Andreas Poppelier
”You Have Found Happiness In Slavery Congratulations To You”
3 may - 28 may. Opening 3 may. 12-16.
Thoughts go back to the books from your childhood, cartoons and fables. The
secrets of the forest entice, as well as its mystical animals, both
real and imaginary. The same objects and motifs are constantly recurring,
the bird nest, the mysterious bear figure, the birch. The viewer is
torn between the dark forest and the colourful fairytale-like areas,
and then all of a sudden, reality, the contemporary, appears and
distorts everything - over and over again.
Storytelling is
always present in Andreas Poppelier’s work. However the story is never
over-explicit. Instead there are only fragments, cut-up stories that
are spread around. There is a darkness in Andreas Poppelier’s work that
attracts; indistinct figures hiding in the shadows, blurred faces,
objects reminding one of wigs are lying around alone. The message is
subtle, but you can sense both a political and a topical undertone in
several works. Sometimes it’s more obvious, such as in the work
entitled,”You Have Found Happiness In Slavery Congratulations To You”.
A lukewarm irony appears in the meeting between the monumental shape
and the straightforward title. The titles are important to the art;
sometimes they are as important as the work itself. They can be a very
direct interpretation of the artwork but they can also be the result of
collected words and sentences from books and films, but mostly from
song lyrics.
Andreas Poppelier is a diverse storyteller; he
chooses the medium and expression through the subject. This variation
has become part of his artistry, not to stay within one way of
expression, continuing to investigate ways to formulate his ideas. A
past within the graffiti culture and an interest in tattoos is
noticeable but these cultural preferences have a place in Poppelier’s
artistry together with an interest for, among others, renaissance
paintings. Nothing is too high or low, something which can be seen in the works
displayed at Galleri Thomas Wallner. Everything should be taken
seriously.
Andreas Poppelier has a Master Degree from the Malmö
Art Academy. He has exhibited, both solo and in group shows, at
Ping-Pong in Malmö, Arnstedt & Kullgren in Båstad, Loppraum in
Berlin, Donn Roca in Odense and Kuntsi in Wasa.
Andreas Nilsson (Original text in Swedish, not translation)
Exhibition Assistant
Dunkers kulturhus
Behaving irreproachable in an impossible situation.
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas.
Den excentriske lorden. (The excentric lord)
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas.
Show me what I only know the limits of.
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas.
Last of an ancient anxious breed.
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas.
Mer info: www.poppelier.se / cv
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