Artist talk between Lars Embäck and Ulf Peter Hallberg from Spleen Nordic about Lars Embäcks book Family Life (The Artist's Hidden Secrets) and Embäcks artwork Home and Family (An Ordinary Life) at Galler Ping-Pong 26th October 2024.
Visit Lars Embäck's studio at ADDO, Borrgatan 4, Saturday 31/8 2024 12-17
HOME AND FAMILY (AN ORDINARY LIFE)
6–27 APRIL 2024 Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö
At Lars Embäck's exhibition, we are greeted by a room within a room with common household objects combined and rearranged into a strange dreamlike scene and around them a flow of drawings and sketches in color. In several of the pictures there are references to Hilma af Klint, Embäck questions when "hearing voices" becomes an act of artistic spirituality versus when it is labeled suffering and madness. As often in Embäck's work, there are clues to his biography. But more important is that images and objects are woven together into a giant "sketchbook", with sketches on sketches, which asks the question of how ordinary an "ordinary life" is.
The installation "Home and Family (An Ordinary Life)" has been acquired by Moderna Museet, Sweden 2024.
An Autumn Full of Contemporary Art in West Sweden!
GIBCA Extended is both a network and a public program that
gathers the contemporary art scenes and venues of Västra
Götaland Region. Each edition of GIBCA Extended offers a
platform for artists, curators, galleries and art spaces. Their
individual programs and exhibitions consolidate and explore
new perspectives on the biennal’s theme.
17 oktober 2023 Artists talk at Högsbo library with Annica Kvint and the artists Marko Cesarec, Lars Embäck and Anne Marte Overaa about the exibition Lost Days/New Days at Högsbo library and Axel Dahlströms Square.
15 september–19 november 2023 Lost Days/New Days Marko Cesarec, Lars Embäck and Anne Marte Overaa at Högsbo library and Axel Dahlströms Square in Högsbo
Picture above: Anne Marte Overaa. The award Unsung was created as part of the project To Whom it May Concern at the invitation of and with support of Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten. Photo: Marko Cesarec in Högsbo.
Lars Embäck's studio can be visited at ADDO, Borrgatan 4, Saturday 2/9 2023 12-17
Supermarket, Stockholm 11-14 May 2023, with the Artist's Association Aura
Lars Embäck, The Trace, collage and ink on paper 43x45 cm
Vet ni! Groupexibition at Galleri Ping-Pong 7-28 January 2023
Lars Embäck
Mummy's Gaze and Card Players – Together, charcoal on panel and photo print
texts: Ulf Peter Hallberg, Thomas Millroth
and Lars Embäck
FAMILY LIFE: THE ARTIST'S HIDDEN SECRETS
spleen nordic 2020
A father and a mother are scarred in separate
traffic accidents. In the family home, the effects of their
trauma ring like an echo in the lives of their children.
Several decades later, Lars Embäck explores
and processes memories of a complicated childhood through
writing, drawing and collage. In parallel, the past as it
has been preserved in medical records, official transcripts,
photographs and newspaper cuttings are open to him and the
reader. Together, the two parts reflect each other like changeable
repetitions in an elusive pattern.
"Family Life" is the culmination
of more than two decades of exhibitions, artworks and
installations in which the artist Lars Embäck has tried
to address the legacy of his difficult childhood and his relationship
to his troubled parents.
