Larry Kagan - "Shadows"

Vernissage September 14.

Exhibition September 15. to October 30. 

“We are more or less aware of the presence of shadows, since they tell us something about our environment, but we do not actually look at them – unless they call attention to themselves by some unfamiliar or unexpected behavior. My challenge was to induce viewers to actually look at the shadow rather than solely at the steel. I began shifting more of the narrative burden to shadow. The more content the eyes could detect in the shadow, the more time and attention they would expend on exploring its details…”

Larry Kagan is a sculptor who uses steel, light and cast shadow as a creative medium. A long time Professor of Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, he maintains studios in Troy and in New York City. He is represented by OK Harris art gallery in New York City.

Larry Kagan
larrykagansculpture.com

Troy Paiva - "Lost America"

Vernissage: 12. May, 2011
Exhibition:   13. May - 28. August, 2011
Alströmerska Magasinet, first and third floor.
Exhibition will be closed between 24. June and 31. July for summer break

Wandering the deserted backroads of the American Southwest, Troy Paiva has explored the abandoned underbelly of America since the 1970s.
Since 1989 he’s been taking pictures of it . . . at night, by the light of the full moon. A multi-discipline artist, Troy needed to find a new medium to create personal art while he worked in a heavily art directed graphic design job. Sitting in on a few night photography classes, he had a revelation when the subject of light-painting came up. Here were techniques that would be perfect for capturing the atmosphere and mystery of the modern ghost towns and epic junkyards he was already exploring.

After years of development, Troy's early vision has been fully realized through his unique style and technique. The colored lighting is done with a flashlight or strobe flash masked with theatrical lighting gels. It's effect reanimates these dead places, turning them into mutant tableaus of some vaguely familiar parallel universe. The minutes-long exposures allow the stars to spiral around Polaris and the moving clouds to smear ethereally across the sky. Many of these subjects are already gone; bulldozed, burned down, subdivided, melted for scrap or simply vanished beneath the shifting desert sand.

Troy Paiva
troypaiva.com

Steven Scott - "Subtle waves of emotions"

Vernissage: 03. March, 2011, 18.00 pm
Exhibition:   04. March - 30. April, 2011
Alströmerska Magasinet, third floor.

Through coloured light I wish to create different emotions for the observer. The sense impressions that the ever changing colours evoke, will bring out the observers own inner pictures and thereby create new information. The light has a pulse that challenges the senses and the colours transform the room. Thus the tactile qualities of the light leave both a physical as well as an emotional impact on the observer.

The light art is organic on a metaphorical level. As slow breathing, waves of colours are transcended to the surrounding space. The quietness and the slow rhythm have a pleasant and almost hypnotic effect on the observer. The piece is meditative and harmonious.

Trine Holm/ Steven Scott
http://www.stevenscott.dk/

Video: Steven Scott about his exhibition "Subtle waves of emotions" in Alingsås 

Please see also a Steven Scott project in our latest PLD magazine.