Summer Show
Shall I compare thee to a summer鈥檚 day?
No season is more ridden with clich茅s than summer, and summer shows are rarely an exception, with their curious mix of pretty landscapes, still-life flower arrangements and portraits of famous people, elected by a jury of academy members (or famous people). Even for nineteenth century painter John Constable, known for his Romantic renderings of English country life, the Royal Academy鈥檚 annual exhibition represented
鈥渢he time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London.鈥�
Subverting a traditional summer show, this exhibition brings together 40 artists whose work turns conventional aesthetics on its head, and locates a new kind of convulsive, rebellious beauty. It is a beauty that dares to reveal the grotesquery of fine art, makes no rigid distinctions between the digital and the 鈥渞eal鈥�, and uncovers the dormant beauty of the vulgar and the popular. Here the normal rules of society are suspended,
so that other systems of meaning can emerge.
It is in such spirits that Carl Kosty谩l, Stockholm, has the pleasure of welcoming you to our most sinister summer show yet.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer鈥檚 day?
No season is more ridden with clich茅s than summer, and summer shows are rarely an exception, with their curious mix of pretty landscapes, still-life flower arrangements and portraits of famous people, elected by a jury of academy members (or famous people). Even for nineteenth century painter John Constable, known for his Romantic renderings of English country life, the Royal Academy鈥檚 annual exhibition represented
鈥渢he time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London.鈥�
Subverting a traditional summer show, this exhibition brings together 40 artists whose work turns conventional aesthetics on its head, and locates a new kind of convulsive, rebellious beauty. It is a beauty that dares to reveal the grotesquery of fine art, makes no rigid distinctions between the digital and the 鈥渞eal鈥�, and uncovers the dormant beauty of the vulgar and the popular. Here the normal rules of society are suspended,
so that other systems of meaning can emerge.
It is in such spirits that Carl Kosty谩l, Stockholm, has the pleasure of welcoming you to our most sinister summer show yet.
Artists on show
- Adam Helms
- Alex Da Corte
- Athena Papadopoulos
- Austin Lee
- Brian Belott
- Caroline Mesquita
- Cy Gavin
- Debo Eilers
- Djordje Ozbolt
- Edward Kay
- Erik Parker
- Gina Beavers
- Grace Weaver
- Henning Hamilton
- Henrik Olai Kaarstein
- Henry Hudson
- Jana Euler
- Jason Matthew Lee
- Jimmy Merris
- Jon Rafman
- Jonas Wood
- Leigh Ledare
- Magnus Andersen
- Mathis Altmann
- Michael Fullerton
- Nicholas Cheveldave
- Oliver Laric
- Oliver Osborne
- Rob Thom
- Ry Rocklen
- Samara Scott
- Sean Landers
- Stuart Middleton
- Sven Loven
- Taocheng Wang
- Tatjana Danneberg
- Tobias Spichtig
- Uwe Henneken
- Wang Jinsong
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