Main Gallery 20.08. – 18.09.2005   The painter Carl Fredrik Hill went crazy in Paris 1878. He was a respected artist with a great ambition to win the Grand Prix at the Paris Saloon. Having been dismissed four years in a row, the void between ambition and reality possibly triggered the development of a paranoid schizofrenic psycosis. His last works, obscene in motif and painted entirely in prussian blue and cadmium yellow, were destroyed by his collegues in order to preserve his reputation as a ”respectable landscapepainter.”  According to himself, works like these had never been made before. After a […]

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The West Wall Gallery 06.08. – 18.08.2005     Even ugliness is beautiful on film. The glitch between fantasy and reality is not manifested in big gestures.  My name is Malin StÃ¥hl and I work in video and photography. In the borderland between the documentary and the fictional identity is shaped. Identity can be expressed through place, relations, fantasies. Global mass-culture and local, geographically specific culture is brought together in the idividual. I seek coherence and discrepancy. Malin Stahl graduated from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 2004.