Mamma Andersson – Hypnosis (2021)

Louisiana print with the work, Hypnos, (2021), by the Swedish painter, Karin Mamma Andersson (b. 1962), which Louisiana presented in 2021 with the exhibition, Humdrum Days. Mamma Andersson stands as one of the most important painters of her generation and Louisiana presented her for the first time in a large print run in Denmark. The work is printed on extra strong, uncoated paper.

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About Hypnos , Mamma Andersson says that it is both new and old. That there are elements from her time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 30 years earlier. The face comes from an old issue of Vogue, while the cat is from a cat book: "I think that the woman is in the process of some kind of upbringing of the cat, but that it does not want to participate. The cat seeks help from the viewer," says Mamma Andersson, who believes that it is probably herself who "stands and thunders", as she has explained it to Lousisiana Magazine no. 53 - with the addition that all paintings are in a way self-portraits: You draw from your own well, because what else would you draw from?

Mamma Andersson builds her paintings on the basis of art historical references and found photographs, films and historical clippings. It is painting on painting, pictures on pictures as Andersson's works open up into a universe of suggestive and emotionally charged stories in vast landscapes, interiors and portraits:

The Nordic landscape with slopes, fir forests and the special, contrasting light. Dolls, often as a substitute for people, which gives the painting a solidified, object-like character. People with their backs turned, whose faces turned away make the picture mysterious. And the color black, often in several shades and materials, oversprayed or roughly applied so that a distinct darkness arises in the picture, a darkness the artist himself associates with death.

Louisiana's exhibition presented 60 Mamma Andersson works - including 10 new images, created especially for the exhibition.

Read more about the exhibition here.

Material: Extra strong, uncoated paper

Dimensions: W: 29.7 x H: 42 cm (A3)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.