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04 October 2007
Swedish painter Karin Mamma Andersson first made an international impact in the 2004 Venice Biennale. With her dreamlike landscapes and strange interiors of ordinary domestic scenes disrupted by ectoplasmic swirls of black paint, audiences were introduced to an artist whose images were enthrallingly disquieting.
Coupled with the sublimely muted shades of an autumnal Nordic landscape, it's hard to say why it has taken so long to have her first solo exhibition in a public gallery in Britain.
This mini retrospective of just 20 paintings (including Travelling In The Family, pictured) offers a small but perfectly packaged exhibition of Andersson's most interesting work. And unlike many artists who reach their peak early, her work refuses to peter out into predictability.
The factors that make her most recent paintings so unsettling are more subtle than those slightly earlier ghostly interiors.
Strongest here are Andersson's most recent landscapes: shimmering silver birches against a blanket of snow in Cul-de-Sac, and the strangely titled The Blank Memories Always Open From the South, which might resemble a 17th-century Delft landscape were it not for the dilapidated buildings on the horizon and the silhouette of the Picasso sculpture in the foreground. These finely tuned paintings are both dreamily seductive and beautifully melancholic.
Until Nov 25, Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road NW3, Tue to Sun 10am to 6pm (Wed to 9pm), free. Tel: 020 7472 5500. Tube: Finchley Road
Mamma Andersson: Cry
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road, NW3 6DG
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