Thursday, January 19, 2006

The Lightness of Simplicity


It looks like Miró at first glance. The paintings, drawings and etchings of Håkan Berg uses simplicity – not minimalism! – to evoke feelings from deep within. But unlike Miró, Berg has a certain lightness to him. It’s as if he wants to say that emotions can be hard to handle, complicated, but not necessarily from some mysterious, Freudian underworld.

Berg’s art also deals with issues of communication, knowledge and perception. He goes in between the eye and the world. The simplest things can be the most important, even though they’re hardly noticeable at first.

For the catalogue to his 2000 exibition in Paris, Thomas Kjellgren wrote: “he paints with the crayons of life on the canvases of light”, and I can find no better way to describe it.

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