Mads Gamdrup

In his stained glass paintings, Mads Gamdrups examines the transparency and texture of colors. In both the monochrome and the multicolored paintings, Gamdrup works to create a space where the colors and differences in the texture of the glass are challenged by the painted circles. In the relationship between the glass and the painted circles, space is created in itself - and another space is created when the individual works are part of a serial context. This gives the pictorial expression a spatiality to use diversity as a quality - and opens up for individual interpretations.

Denmark

Copenhagen

Nils Stærk

Mixed Media

Untitled (green and pink)

Superflex

Euphoria Now is an ongoing series of paintings based on colour schemes of global currencies. Starting in 2016 with the seven colours of the euro notes. The paintings now exists in several versions to mark the many different currencies and economies that constitute our global market. To mention a few : Euro, US Dollars, Chinese Yuan, Singapore Dollars, Pound Sterling and Austrailian Dollars.  

The conceptual starting point for the Euphoria Now paintings was the discovery of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville’s Dream Machine (1958/95). By looking at a series of flickering lights various colour patterns would appear and create a hypnagogic hallucination - supposedly encouraging artistic production. By directly referring to the colours of currencies, SUPERFLEX transferred the concept of the dream machine into contemporary society’s greatest hypnagogic hallucination of all: money.

In 2017 SUPERFLEX opened the large-scale installation One Two Three Swing! at Tate Modern’s renowned Turbine Hall. The interactive installation was to be experienced in three states: apathy, production and movement. The state of apathy comprised a large pendulum swinging above a 770 square metre carpet in a colour scheme based on the British Pound. The stripes of the carpet echoed the colours of the British banknotes and SUPERFLEX hereby referred directly to the idea behind the Euphoria Now series: global capitalism as a hypnagogic hallucination. 


Painting

Euphoria Now / Cayman Islands

Eduardo Terrazas

Terrazas broad artistic production includes works as heterogeneous as his most iconic series Possibilities of a Structure (1974 - ) with it subseries: Cosmos, Nine Circles, Diagonals, Grid and Bar Code, a pictorial investigation of the characteristics that allows an specific structure be developed and transformed to the infinite. Terrazas work serves as a testimony of his interest in thinking in an interdisciplinary way to establish visions of our contemporary world through universal visual languages. Image after image his work seems to tell stories of the geometry underlining our Cosmos.

Possibilities of a Structure: Cosmos 1.1.383 

Paul Fägerskiöld

Untitled (White Flag)

Untitled

Tom Sandberg

Throughout his career, Tom Sandberg has consistently worked with black and white photography. With authenticity in his medium and an affinity for complex visuality, he explores photography as a language and works with his subjects abstractly as well as formally and sculpturally. His pictures strike a balance between dimensions of form and associations, in a dialogue between photography as semiotics and representation.

Photography

Gert & Uwe Tobias

The Transylvanian-born Germany based artists, Gert & Uwe Tobias are collaborators and identical twins. The Tobias brothers paint, sculpt, draw with a typewriter and make large scale woodcuts. Their renewed and colourful take on traditional medias such as ceramics and woodcuts form the body of their work together with an almost nostalgic approach to making art, as each work is handmade by both sets of artists hands. In their exhibitions, the Tobias brothers often combine these media; the almost animalistic ceramics and large-scale woodcuts together – all of which display lush, vivid colour and strong graphic compositions. Drawing on sources as diverse as popular culture, traditional Eastern European folk art and art historical movements such as constructivism, the Tobias brothers create artworks that are both playful and haunting.

Untitled (clear pink and light magenta) 

Untitled (lilac and light orange) 

Throughout his career Tom Sandberg has consistently worked with black and white photography. With authenticity in his medium and an affinity for complex visuality he explores photography as a language and works with his subjects abstractly as well as formally and sculpturally. His pictures strike a balance between dimensions of form and associations, in a dialogue between photography as semiotics and representation.

For the second iteration of ENTER Art Fair, we have brought together a curated selection of works by the gallery’ artists and estates, available simultaneously here online at the NILS STÆRK web and at the physical fair in Copenhagen. We are pleased to present works by Olaf Breuning, Ingvar Cronhammar, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Darío Escobar, FOS, Mads Gamdrup, Jone Kvie, Michael Kvium, Matthew Ronay, Torbjørn Rødland, Tom Sandberg, Tove Storch, SUPERFLEX, Eduardo Terrazas, Gert & Uwe Tobias. Adding to the gallery roaster, we are proud to be presenting paintings by the Swedish artist, Paul Fägerskiöld. With a diverse group of artists, their works join forces in the meeting between materials, handcraft, and a highly conceptual approach to the artistic language. We invite you to explore these works in-depth from this online preview, that include expanded information, images, and history on each of them.

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