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Erik Lindman Balke (Prélude)

Sep 4 — Oct 2, 2021 | Paris, Turenne (Front Space)

Almine Rech is pleased to present Erik Lindman's seventh solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 4 to October 2, 2021.

These new paintings are dedicated to the early 19th century Norwegian Romantic painter Peder Balke, whom Erik Lindman describes as a fellow bricoleur: Balke utilized balled up rags, strié swipes—a host of decorative painting tricks, to execute his fantasy-charged Northern landscapes. “Balke’s paintings are not overstated at all,” Lindman argues “they are the result of a man using what is at hand…” positioning this little known Scandinavian in line with contemporary practices that open the pictorial to signs appropriated from everywhere, adjacent vocabularies to far-flung syntactical realms.

In Lindman’s works there has almost always been a prize at the center, something retrieved from elsewhere then repurposed within, providing a subject, figure or contrast with the surrounding frontal plane, be it painted or another surface, such as plywood or burlap.

— Joe Fyfe, painter and writer 

Press release

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Selected artworks

  • Erik Lindman,                                      Balke (Harlequin), 2021

    Erik Lindman Balke (Harlequin), 2021

    Acrylic, epoxy resin putty and canvas webbing on panel
    61 x 45.7 cm
    24 x 18 in

  • Erik Lindman,                                      Balke (Verdigris), 2021

    Erik Lindman Balke (Verdigris), 2021

    Acrylic, epoxy resin putty and canvas webbing on panel
    61 x 45.7 cm
    24 x 18 in

  • Erik Lindman,                                      Balke (Morning), 2021

    Erik Lindman Balke (Morning), 2021

    Acrylic and epoxy resin putty on panel with aluminum artist’s frame
    121.9 x 91.4 cm
    48 x 36 in

  • Erik Lindman,                                      Balke (Day), 2021

    Erik Lindman Balke (Day), 2021

    Acrylic and epoxy resin putty on panel with aluminum artist’s frame
    121.9 x 91.4 cm
    48 x 36 in

  • Erik Lindman,                                      Balke (Night), 2021

    Erik Lindman Balke (Night), 2021

    Acrylic, epoxy resin putty and canvas webbing on panel with aluminum artist’s frame
    121.9 x 91.4 cm
    48 x 36 in

  • Erik Lindman,                                      Diptera, 2021

    Erik Lindman Diptera, 2021

    Papier-mâché, epoxy resin paste, marble dust and acrylic paint
    40.6 x 30.5 x 12.7 cm
    16 x 12 x 5 in

  • Erik Lindman,                                      Bust, 2021

    Erik Lindman Bust, 2021

    Papier-mâché, epoxy resin paste, wood, marble dust and acrylic paint
    38.1 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm
    15 x 8 x 8 in

  • Erik Lindman,                                      Après Aurore, 2021

    Erik Lindman Après Aurore, 2021

    Found metal, epoxy resin putties and pastes, wood and enamel paint on plywood base
    45.7 x 21.6 x 16.5 cm
    18 x 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in

Videos

  • Erik Lindman - Balke (Prélude)