Norwegian artist Anders Sletvold Moe is awarded this year's Bærtling scholarship. Since 1983, the scholarship has been given to a prominent artist who works in the spirit of Olle Bærtling.
In connection with the award ceremony in Stockholm, we are opening an exhibition with two series of new intaglio prints by Anders Sletvold Moe, in dialogue with a small selection of serigraphs by Olle Bærtling himself.
Welcome to the opening on Monday 14 October at 5-7pm, Hagagatan 14, Stockholm
The week following upon the opening, we will have extended opening hours so that a wider audience can take part in the exhibition:
Tuesday-Thursday 15-17 October at 12-18
Friday 18 October at 12-16
Saturday 19 October at 12-16
The exhibition then runs during our regular opening hours until November 10
More dates to keep track of
Tuesday 15 October: Award ceremony and lunch seminar at the Stockholm School of Economics, more info at the Bærtling foundation
Thursday 17 October: Exhibition with new painting by Anders Sletvold Moe opens at Wetterling gallery
Sunday 10 November at 14: As part of Gallery Weekend Stockholm, professor Håkan Nilsson visits ed. art to give a lecture on Bærtling, his time and his legacy.
Anders Sletvold Moe is awarded the Bærtling scholarship...
...for his persistent work in renewing and deepening the tradition of concrete art. Sletvold Moe often works with a few visual elements in clear geometric shapes in strong colors which merge over the surface. Sometimes they also give shape to the painting itself, similar to the work of many American minimalists with so-called shaped canvas. In these works, the paintings also appear as objects which interact with other works and thus occupy the entire room in a composition. In other works, Sletvold Moe works more with the inner dynamics of the canvas, where long narrow wedge-shaped surfaces form a cut through the canvas.
These dynamic fields have great similarities with how Olle Bærtling worked with diagonal and triangular compositions which strove to extend both into the picture surface and out into the room. Bærtling was also interested in the "hard edge" painting of the 60s, which also has great similarities with Anders Sletvold Moe's art.
Both artists also meet in a deepened interest in the dynamics of space, where Bærtling saw his artworks as parts of a larger, imaginable reality – a space. Anders Sletvold Moe sometimes goes a step further here and has parts of the exhibition room painted in the same shades as the works he shows. A very concrete example of how Bærtling's visions can be said to be taken on by a younger generation.
