Andreas Eriksson features in 'LIMINAL ZONE | BETWEEN WORLDS'
In ‘LIMINAL ZONE | BETWEEN WORLDS’, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren showcases works by the Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson, the Portuguese artist Jorge Queiroz and the French painter Aelita le Quément. For the first time in southern Germany, the work by the three artists will be presented institutionally and to an expansive audience.
A key connection between the artists is the use of “liminality” as the central aspect of their respective works. The term liminality describes the quality of being in between two places or stages and/or transitioning to something new. In the visual arts, the principle of a liminal transformation space represents one of the most interesting and versatile approaches to conveying a specific type of abstraction of a state and its pictorial representation.
Responding to the natural world, Eriksson’s paintings, weavings, drawings and sculptures have an emotional intensity. In a reflective and meditative practice, he creates recordings that move on the threshold between calculated and improvised gestures.
In contrast to Queiroz and Quément, Eriksson's artistic practice is not guided by impulsivity; Rather, it is subject to a controlled and intensively reflected process. The observation of nature, especially the landscape with all its details and atmospheric nuances, provides Eriksson with an endless source from which he draws for his visual language. The visible is dismantled, rearranged as a quotation and elevated to art through abstraction, alienation and transformation. Abstraction and figuration, heavy and light, inside and outside, concrete and mysterious or illusion and reality complement each other in both the process and the result.
