Malin molin konstnär
Wetterling Gallery is proud to present Malin Molin’s first solo exhibition at our gallery, Bliss Point.
Through the nine paintings on display – all depictions of varied foods - the artist questions today’s image culture, and the triangular relationship between image, desire, and body. Molin is interested in our human bodies as a whole: how they react, how they are coerced and mislead by external stimuli.
The exhibition title, Bliss Point, is derived from the food industry: referring to the amount of salt, sugar or fat that optimizes palatability, while overriding the brain's natural 'stop' signals. This type of manufactured pleasure has a deceiving, manipulative connotation – altering eating patterns and behaviours.
Images, particularly from various social media outlets, function in a similar way. One is constantly surrounded by all types of imagery, while various algorithms continuously feed targeted pictures or promotional material, to further hook the viewer. There is pleasure in this, but also a manipulation of our system on a collective level. It is the bliss point that one experiences daily, equally delicious and unhealthy. A
Mitt namn existerar Malin Mohlin, jag kommer ursprungligen ifrån Sollefteå dock bor numera i Sundsvall sedan 13 år tillbaka.
Jag började måla lite smått på grund av 14 kalenderår sedan på grund av sedan utöka mer samt mer. Jag har ständigt tyckt angående att färglägga stora ytor, tex fondväggar, möbler samt tapetsera dock har övergått till för att måla vid canvasdukar samt akrylpapper.
Jag målar inom stort sett uteslutande abstrakta målningar tillsammans akrylfärger samt mitt favoritverktyg är palettkniven. Jag använder oftast starka klara färger och älskar olika strukturer som dyker upp beneath målningens gång.
Jag blandar färdigköpta uppspända textilier med för att spänna upp canvasduk vid kilram samt jag bygger mina egna svävarramar.
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Scandic Star, Lund
First logi C4, Kristianstad
Flying Art galleri, Konstlobbyn, ett köpcenter eller butik i täby
Artyria Konst samt Nöjeshall, Timrå
Scandic Hallandia, Halmstad
Galleri T, Gamla Stan, Stockholm
Galleri Granen, Sundsvall
Konstrundan, Sundsvall
Atelje Orsta, Nordingrå
Good Morning Hotels, Helsingborg
Araslöv Golf samt Resort, Araslöv
Teaterhotellet Konstgalleriet, Malmö
Englesons Galleri Stockholm
Medverkar inom Nordic Artguide
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Wetterling Gallery is pleased to present Ekfraser (Ekphrases), Malin Molin’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
The title Ekfraser (Ekphrases), derived from the Greek ekfras, describes a literary, usually vivid description of, or commentary on, a visual work of art. Under its umbrella, Molin offers a commentary on today’s culture of image, while employing painting as a depiction of an image – a type of meta perspective which allows to focus on the effect, rather than the picture’s meaning. The artist is hence interested in the broad usage of imagery and its understanding, while simultaneously pinpointing that the medium of painting allows for a distancing between oneself, and the images produced.
Throughout this presentation of visceral, colour-saturated figurative works, Molin conducts an exploration of the image culture, of the human eye’s perception of imagery in a world that is constantly exposed to visual stimulation. As a counterbalance, oil painting - Molin’s medium of choice - is put forward in terms of its specificity and innate characteristics, such as materiality, physicality, tactility.
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