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Andreas Eriksson: Shoreline
For my first show at Hakgojae Gallery, I started from the mountain. The mountain as a picturesque wall where the layers of the landscape are stacked on top of each other.
For this second exhibition in Korea, the starting point was DMZ. DMZ as a kind of metaphor for art and painting. An area that is outside of any ownership and that may grow on its own terms. After a while, I realized that DMZ became a bridge that was far
too politically charged for me to feel satisfied. I was afraid that the painting would be overshadowed by its title. A lot of googling later, I got stuck on the Korean coastline, especially on the Eastside.
For me, painting is very much about materiality. A prerequisite for this is that two materials meet, for example, water/rock, sand/wood, moss/sky, etc. In the Shoreline paintings I come to this meeting point with a new perspective and focus. Many of the drawings in the exhibition were made during quarantine. Without those, the new paintings would never have got started.
Andreas Eriksson · 18th of January 2022