HÅKAN BERG, BLIND LETTERS, PAINTING & GRAPHICS

06-04-2006 – 27-05-2006

Following two exhibitions at GALERIE BIRTHE LAURSEN in Paris, it is a great pleasure for the gallery for the first time in Copenhagen to show works by the Swedish artist Håkan Berg.

Presenting new graphics and paintings by Håkan Berg, the exhibition BLIND LETTERS offers a universe marked by clarity and truism. Apparently Håkan Berg’s simple pictures do not show anything but unity and simplicity: Every illusion and expression as well as every iconographic content is eliminated. Instead the pictures show abstract, minimal forms and fields. They are BLIND LETTERS. Blind letters are incomplete letters with incomplete addresses. They are places of possibility, and as such places the pictures by Håkan Berg are letters to those we become in looking at them. As in reading blind letters, we look at Håkan Berg’s pictures because we lack something. However, in Håkan Berg’s universe we do not find the meaning of the real created by well known sights. Here visualisation rather means disturbing the sight of the viewer.

Welcome to the opening Thursday April 6th, 2006, 5-8 pm.

Håkan Berg was born in 1958 in Kristianstad in Sweden. He studied at Konstskolan in Kristianstad, Högskolan in Umeå and Grafikskolan Forum in Malmö. He has numerous international solo and group exhibitions behind him and is represented in some of the greatest Swedish collections.

The exhibition continues through Saturday May 27th, 2006.