The Landscape according to Sigrid Sandström

The Landscape according to Sigrid Sandström
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Sigrid Sandström. Afterimages | Courtesy Perrotin Gallery

In Sigrid Sandström's canvases there is all the power of the nature of her country of origin, Sweden. The artist, who today divides her time between artistic creation and teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, prefers one of the oldest motifs in painting: the landscape. Apparently abstract, her paintings evoke microscopic visions of cataclysmic natural events: landslides, melting glaciers and celestial phenomena. Sandström explores infinite techniques on the canvas: stains, puddles, brush strokes, smudges, drips. One of the most original gestures in Sigrid Sandström's art is covering crumpled material with paint and pressing it onto the canvas, leaving behind a contact print.

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