KERSTIN HEDMAN
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Kerstin Hedman works in acrylics on Plexiglas and employs a richly variegated palette to produce a fine balance of surface and depth. This in itself not particularly unusual, but more often than not she has succeeded in breaking away from what might have otherwise been simply a systematic approach, to unearth her own idiom in which almost imperceptible shifts of colour meld to form an aesthetic unity.
Her work is at its most intriguing at the point where the painting has toned down to the absolute minimal, the truly pure.
This is where she discovers subtle tension in the most fragile of lines. I peep at a light, almost monochrome, surface and through the discreet elegant shades of pigment become increasingly aware of how this surface deepens and finally opens itself onto infinity.
Stig Johansson
Translation into english Nicolas Ellis
 Kerstin Hedman 2005. photo Christian Thörnqvist |
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CURRICULUM
VITAE
Born
1948. Lives in Stockholm
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Galleria Johan S, Helsingfors
2009 Konstforum, Norrköping
2008 Galleri Hylteberga, Skurup
2008 Åminne Bruksmuseum, Värnamo
2007 Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2005 Flamènska Galleriet, Borås
2005 Tomarps Kungsgård, Kvidinge
2004 Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2003 Galleri Aniara, Sollentuna
1997 Galleri Länsmansgården, Åkersberga
1994 Galleri Frösåker, Västerås
1994 Fiskeboda, Julita
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Mälsåkers Slott, Mariefred
2009 Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz, Tyskland
2009 Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2009 Tomarps Kungsgård, Kvidinge
2008 Kunstverein Wiligrad, Lübstorf, Schwerin, Tyskland
2008 F15, Moss, Norge
2008 Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2007 Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt, Tyskland
2007 Galleri Hylteberga, Skurup
2006 Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna
2006 Galerie von Waldenburg, Tyskland
2006 Arte Struktura, Milano, Italien
2002-2007 Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2001 Tornby Konsthall, Linköping
2001-2005 Galerie Plaisiren, Hässelby Slott
1995 Galleri Viktoria, Hedemora
GRANTS
Statens
konstråd, Stockholm
Stiftelsen San Michele, Capri
Familjebostäder AB, Stockholm
Stiftelsen Barnens Dag, Stockholm
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)
Forum Konkrete Kunst, Tyskland
Statens Konstråd, Norrköpings Kommun
Västernorrlnads Landsting. Jusek, Stockholm
Familjebostäder, Stockholm
Stiftelsen Barnens Dag, Stockholm
GRANTS (selection)
2006 Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden
2005 Vistelsestipendium, San Michele, Capri
2004 Sveriges Bildkonstnärsfonds Stipendium