☀️Welcome to the finale on Sunday, March 16th, 13-17 pm
The artist will be on site!
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Extended exhibition January 25 – March 16 🌱
We are renovating the roof and have an upcoming ground renovation outside ahead of us, but we are open as usual even though there is a fence - go around the fence!
We at Krognoshuset are very happy to present for the first time the artist Alice Máselníková, who has her roots in the Czech Republic. The Scanian audience can recognize her work from previous exhibitions in Domkyrkoforum in Lund and Galleri Molekyl in Malmö.
In the peculiar environment of the Krogno house, with its medieval architecture and three floors, a series of new paintings that Alice Máselníková has created especially for this context are displayed, among other things. These works, in a muted color scale, bear traces of classical inspiration with references to medieval symbolism and stories from fables and myths. In his works, the artist explores symbolism connected to nature, flowers, plants and trees, and the stories that surround them, their healing properties, magical charge and cultural meanings.
Alongside the paintings, a selection of grayscale drawings is also presented. These finely tuned works interact with the transparency of the paintings and combine fragility with a powerful presence, reinforcing the connection between the past and the present in the historic rooms of Krognoshuset.
During the work on the exhibition, Alice Máselníková's studio has been surrounded by the characteristic nature of the Småland forest landscape, dense, deep green coniferous forest and a stream that meanders into a lake. This peaceful, seasonal and cyclical environment has influenced and shaped her artistic process.
Máselníková constantly returns to an investigation of the physical conditions of painting and an effort to capture the fleeting in the magic of everyday life. The slow process in painting is balanced with other related techniques, such as the irreversibility of watercolour, or the quick and intuitive but at the same time soft and misty expression of charcoal and pastel. More recently, she has also discovered the silver pen technique, a method dating back to antiquity, where lines are drawn with silver on specially treated paper.
Her visual world is at once familiar and peculiar. With thin, transparent layers of paint, she creates dreamlike depictions of mythologically inspired motifs: Grotesque, melancholic figures and fairy-tale creatures that merge with nature. Here there is a kinship with magical realism – a style that can be described as an elevated reality. Through careful observations, such as of a tree's falling shadow over a forest clearing, she allows the everyday to be woven together with the metaphysical. In her work we often encounter an interpersonal figure, a metamorphosis between human and animal, a body that seems fluid and plastic, both at rest and in movement. It is a body aware of its temporally limited existence between birth and decay, where dull green grass sprouts softly between the cavities of the soul and body.
Alice Máselníková invites the viewer into the mythological space of the painting, where perspective shifts and layers of sheer oil paint gently expose body, nature, land, water and sky. Her art invites us to stop and let ourselves be enveloped by her melancholic visual world. At the same time, it is a world that can do without the presence of the viewer, a world that is contained within itself, where nature is a companion – in solitude but not alone.
About the artist
Alice Máselníková (b. 1989, Zlín, Czech Republic) is a visual artist based in Edsbruk, Småland. Máselníková has a bachelor's degree in liberal arts and philosophy from Duncan of Jordancetone College of Art and Design, Dundee in Scotland, and a master's degree in Curating Art from Stockholm University. She has also studied at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, and the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm.
Her work has previously been shown at, among others, Liljevalchs and Berg Gallery in Stockholm, Gallery of Fine Art in Náchod, Czech Republic, Meat Inspection in Uppsala, Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles and Altán Klamovka in Prague. In addition to her painting, she writes poetry and works as a curator, editor and consultant in cultural funding. She is artistic director of the art fair Supermarket, co-founder of Artist-Run Network Europe and founder of Artist-in-Residency Flat Octopus.
www.alicemaselnikova.com
Instagram: @alice_maselnikova
Press Sydsvenskan's art critic Carolina Söderholm February 1, 2025
Press Lundagård Jana Denisiuk February 7, 2025
Image: Alice Máselníková