Kim Lorentzson

Monday, 11 February 2013

Beyond dreams

I wanted to work with a material that bears some kind of truth, and to me nature is the only true thing, it’s where I see myself clear, where I get comfort and peace. The dried flowers represent something unreachable, dead, dried out but still preserving some kind of beauty. Isolated between glass, alone, cold, fixed and dried out of life. The acrylic glass and the paint contrast the beautiful dream of nature and remind me of how isolated nature is from me. It seems so hard to touch, to reach.

Plexiglas, acrylic paint, dried flowers and paper, 60x80 cm

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Claudio likes meat

Acrylics on canvas 100x100cm

You take what you've got nr4

Acrylics on canvas 35x40cm

You take what you've got nr3

Acrylics on canvas 70x65cm

You take what you've got nr2

Acrylics on canvas 100x100cm

You take what you've got

Acrylics on canvas 100x100cm

Spilled ink nr4

Acrylics on canvas 70x65cm

Spilled ink nr3

Acrylics on canvas 70x65cm

Spilled ink nr2

If the focus is laid on painting only one half of a canvas, to later only be copied onto the other half, what becomes the wholeness? In my mirror-effect paintings I am spontaneously pouring out color on one half on the canvas, it’s an experiment of free expression and the result when the canvas has been folded is often a surprise.
I use black acrylic paint mixed with water on a beige background, the colors makes me think of ink spilled out on old paper. The symmetry and balance of the composition is what makes the technique interesting. Even if one part is simply a mirror reflection of another, there will be a final wholeness that creates a new image different from the one and only half I focused one to start with.
I have been very inspired by the Rorschach inkblot test, which is used as a psychological test to analyze a personality.

Acrylics on canvas 70x65cm