Artists

Aleksandra Waliszewska, David Tibet, Olle Wärnbäck, Richard Cartwright, Niklas Nenzén, Hugo Lindblad

Press release

The group exhibition SIGHTSEEING invites visitors into a space outside the mainstream, where Martin Jacobson brings together six artists whose work explores the realms of mysticism and mythology. The participating artists are Aleksandra Waliszewska, David Tibet, Richard Cartwright, Olle Wärnbäck, Niklas Nenzén and Hugo Lindblad.

The artists in the exhibition are, in various ways, situated outside the established norms of the contemporary art world. Richard Cartwright studied at Goldsmith’s College of Art in London but distanced himself early on from formal art education. He settled in Bristol in the 1980s and has since consistently created works shaped by his own visual logic. David Tibet, a name well known to many in the music world as the founder and member of the experimental music group CURRENT 93, has a deep interest in apocryphal and apocalyptic Biblical texts, which, in addition to music, finds expression through art, poetry and publishing. Another artist in the exhibition, Aleksandra Waliszewska, is firmly positioned within the contemporary art world but she relates her works to the Symbolists of the turn of the century and other old masters. We also encounter works by contemporary Swedish artists such as Olle Wärnbäck and Niklas Nenzén, both of whom allow their inner vision to guide the creative process behind their symbolically charged works. The exhibition also presents a work by Hugo Lindblad, who passed away in 1976, and whose surviving body of work—comprising images, texts and dream diaries—can be interpreted within the framework of Outsider Art.
 
A common thread running through the exhibition is that the works on display still seem to hold an enigma. They do not provide any clear answers or offer a definitive solution. They reflect psychological states, visions, dreams, mirror worlds and hallucinations. What may appear to be a seemingly introspective and detached view of the world is, in fact, an invitation to contemplate existence on a deeper level and open oneself up to alternative dimensions.