ANNA BJERGER

Strange Talents

8 April - 8 May, 2010

Opening reception: Thursday, 8 April, 5-8 PM.


ALP/Peter Bergman is pleased to announce Anna Bjerger's second  
soloexhibition at the gallery.
Anna Bjerger continues to reference her photographic archive of old  
magazines, reference books and manuals in these new paintings. The  
ongoing collection of this material is an integral part of her working  
process. The open relationship with the original photographic image  
allows a personal expression to develop through her painterly approach.

The exhibition has evolved as Bjerger has allowed each painting to  
dictate the image used for the next. The resulting paintings have an  
underlying relationship but also exist singularly without thematic  
constraints.

The works in Strange Talents exist at the point where a photograph can  
be expressed through the language of painting, therefore shifting both  
its meaning and atmosphere. Light clarifies form and the motif decides  
the scale resulting in paintings that are both subjective and  
mysterious. Anna Bjerger clarifies the position of the viewer, our  
limitations and how images are deciphered through collective experience.

Anna Bjerger (b.1973), lives and works in Småland, Sweden. She studied  
painting at S:t Martins School of Art and Design and Royal College of  
Art, London. Recent exhibitions include Galerie Gabriel Rolt,  
Amsterdam, David Risley Gallery, London/Copenhagen, La Chapelle des  
Beaux Arts and Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris. Anna Bjerger won the  
Vinunic Artprize and was nominated for Women to Watch Artprize, 2009.


The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday 12-17.

For images and information please contact the gallery.


Image: Anna Bjerger, Cave, Oil on aluminium, 70x60 cm, 2010

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PETER BERGMAN

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