Pär Strömberg - Artist 

Updates of new work and news about events, shows, and more at Pär's blog: HERE

Bio:

Born 1972 in Örebro, Sweden – Lives and works i Amsterdam, The Netherlands since1996. Currently teaching painting at Örebro College of Art, Sweden

Education:
1996-1999 Gerrit Rietveld Academie(B.F.A.), free media dep., Amsterdam, (NL)
1994-1996 Örebro College of Art, Painting, Örebro, (SE)



Content of my work:

My paintings have, since I arrived in Holland eleven years ago, developed into a registration of the landscapes of my native country Sweden, both physical and psychological. The presence of the landscape and the wild nature up there, is very impact. Something very relieving, as well as frightening and intimidating. The beauty and freedom it speaks about, has an ever so under laying threatening side. In my work I try to get closer to ideas of the landscape, to reveal the fears and threats of the ostensibly calm surfaces of it’s beauty. I’m influenced by photography and moving images and the human relation to nature.

In later work I have also been interested in occult rites, myths of the pagan heritage and folklore tales of the vast and dense landscape of the north. These stories and tales have helped form a collective memory of what our dreams and fantasies are made of. 

This has been crucial for me in the way I look at an image and the seductive yet sinister portrayal of a landscape I want to share. The boarder line of beauty and beast is to be found in all my collected influences and it's something I'm definitely eager to be able to show in my work. I believe painting to be an extension of time. With metaphors, pagan stories and paraphrases from art history, my new paintings suggests not only the mystic ambivalance of dark vs light, like before, but also a clearer point towards a global environmental awerness of our surroundings. The ever struggle between good and evil, darkness and light, yin and yang continues.

His biography is here: www.parstromberg.com  (From Pär's blog: My website www.parstromberg.com is undergoing construction and will be resting for a little while. You can read about it's re-launch here later on.)






 



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