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Grand Gallery presenterar stolt en målerifest precis i tid till Gallerihelgen i Malmö. 3 olika målare – samtliga dedikerade till handverket men med helt olika slutresultat.
Mollie Douthit från Irland
Alfonso del Moral från Spanien
och Malmös egen Johan Nahoj
Alfonso del Moral från Spanien
och Malmös egen Johan Nahoj
Välkomna!
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Mollie Douthit (b 1986):
My work explores how biography and memories are shaped through experiences, stories, and objects. As works of auto-fiction, the process of painting has developed my awareness of memory’s fragileness and truth’s flexibility. With painting I am trying to reorient myself into these actual places I remember — oftentimes resulting in a meandering perspective.
As I develop the work, I try to make an object or space as emotive as it is in my mind. I notice the distance between the actual event and its existence as memory — one operates in the physical world, the other in the mental plane; the act of painting bridges these two. Though these memories are my own, I trust that my process of remembering and imagining translates to something universal.
My work explores how biography and memories are shaped through experiences, stories, and objects. As works of auto-fiction, the process of painting has developed my awareness of memory’s fragileness and truth’s flexibility. With painting I am trying to reorient myself into these actual places I remember — oftentimes resulting in a meandering perspective.
As I develop the work, I try to make an object or space as emotive as it is in my mind. I notice the distance between the actual event and its existence as memory — one operates in the physical world, the other in the mental plane; the act of painting bridges these two. Though these memories are my own, I trust that my process of remembering and imagining translates to something universal.
From a young age I was captivated by color. Now I express emotion using saturated vibrant colors, reminiscent of technicolor films from childhood.
It has become critical to spend long periods of time with my work. My home studio allows for this durational coexistence. My process is rarely efficient, I carefully correct parts that are not working without disrupting parts that feel delicately certain. A work is complete with a sense of crisp, clicking closure; suddenly, the emotions I feel for the subject parallel what I feel when looking at the painting — it is like a door locking shut. Painting is an act of compassion, patience, and love.
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Alfonso del Moral (b 1992)
I conceive art as a constant question, a medium to wonder about myself and the world, without expecting the answers. My current research is focused on the idea of identity, understood in two aspects: as a strong tension between contrary magnitudes, which connects with the paradox of the contemporary subjectivity; and as a constant change, a movement, which involves introducing in painting the illusion of the fourth dimension: time. The challenge I assume is to reflect the identitary tension between what we must do and what we want to do, between norms, conventions and morals on the one hand, and conflict, crime and desire on the other. Likewise, the othe challenge propose myself is to capture an instant of that identity change in order to confront the movement to the static, the accidental to the essential; and to combine everything to show the paradoxes that operate in the
I conceive art as a constant question, a medium to wonder about myself and the world, without expecting the answers. My current research is focused on the idea of identity, understood in two aspects: as a strong tension between contrary magnitudes, which connects with the paradox of the contemporary subjectivity; and as a constant change, a movement, which involves introducing in painting the illusion of the fourth dimension: time. The challenge I assume is to reflect the identitary tension between what we must do and what we want to do, between norms, conventions and morals on the one hand, and conflict, crime and desire on the other. Likewise, the othe challenge propose myself is to capture an instant of that identity change in order to confront the movement to the static, the accidental to the essential; and to combine everything to show the paradoxes that operate in the
conception of myself and things. Due to this paradoxal vision of identity, my painting is also a tension between the academicist tradition and the aesthetics of the digital and social networks, confusing somehow the pictorial surface and the screen
of the electronic device, our new window to other worlds.
of the electronic device, our new window to other worlds.
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Johan Nahoj (b 1987)
Johan Nahojs arbete rör sig i gränslandet mellan ateljén och utställningsrummet, process och arkivering, måleri och objekt. Nahoj förhandlar konstverkets absoluthet, det enskilda resultatet och strävar efter transparens inför helhet, flöde och arbetsförlopp.
Verken börjar som fysiska målningar eller digitala collage. De digitala verken visas också på nahoj_daily – ett instagramkonto, där konstnären publicerar ett digitalt verk per dag. En taktpinne. Ibland tar de publicerade bilderna fysisk form där de omformuleras med hjälp av print och olja på duk, som en fortsättning på det ständigt pågående. Processer som kan ta längre tid. Gärna flera år med lager av färg. Nahojs motivvärld rör sig mellan konsthistoriska referenser, vardagliga föremål, internets flöde och ett utforskande av själva färgens- och objektets materialitet.
Date:
september 21, 2023