Ylva Carlgren
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Ylva Carlgren
(b.1984 in Luleå. Lives and works in Stockholm)
Ylva Carlgren works with non-figurative watercolor painting. The work is experimental and systematic. Through a meticulous and controlled layering technique, fields of color are gradually charged with light, manipulating the perceptual field. The work is an exploration of the limitations of her medium. It is a process of perfection where the artist's practice becomes and end in and of itself. Relinquishing any and all mimetic pretension, Carlgren creates a reduced visual language characterized by presence and stillness.
Carlgren holds an MFA from Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the recipient of grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation.
She has exhibited in solo and group shows such as "300 Layers" (solo exhibition at Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018), "The Shadows' call" (solo exhibition at Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016), and "In Light of Absence". (duo exhibition at Market art fair, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017)
Website: Ylva Carlgren
Stay: September 18 - December 15, 2018
Co-organized by IASPIS
Black square on grey (watercolor on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2017)
White square on black (watercolor on paper, 50 x 50cm, 2018)
In light of absence (6) (watercolour on paper, 73 x 53cm, 2016)
Installation view (Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, 2018)
2018-9- 3
