MARTIN ÅLUND

The Bipolar Suite of 50 intense, large-format paintings are the result of a shamanistic praxis and an alchemical process.

From the publisher: The 50 paintings that form Martin Ålund's "The Bipolar Suite (Otherworld)" were created during a period of strong tension. They are the artistic result of a profound emotional experience that became a psychological and spiritual journey of discovery. Darkness and light stand against each other in large diptychs or are expressed in individual paintings that build a whole of great and striking power. Ålund's experience and technical skill lay a solid foundation for both the violent color outbursts and the meditative calm of the series. The poet Clara Diesen has written a suite of poems for this book that empathetically interprets and adds to the shifting moods of the Otherworld paintings. Martin Ålund himself has written a preface that provides biographical background, and the author and critic Jonas Ellerström has in an afterword analyzed the shamanistic and alchemical process which Ålund's paintings exemplify and are the result of.

Martin Ålund is a Swedish visual artist, born in 1967 in Skelleftå. He lives and works in Stockholm. He was educated at the Royal Institute of Art, and has received many prizes and scholarships, including the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Scholarship. He is represented in several museums, and in public as well as private collections. He exhibits frequently, nationally and internationally, in solo and group exhibitions.

Clara Diesen is a Swedish poet, born in 1972 in Stockholm where she lives and works. She has published three collections of her poetry with Albert Bonniers publishing house, among them glömskans bok (The Book of Oblivion). Diesen is also active as a theatre director and interdisciplinary artist.

Size: 186 x 177 mm
Pages: 112
Format: hardcover
Edition: 700
Language: Swedish, English
Illustration: 51 colour, 2 b/w
Editing: Jonas Ellerström
Preface: Martin Ålund
Poems: Clara Diesen
Postscript: Jonas Ellerström
Book desing: Jonas Ellerström
Printing: Balto Print
Publisher: Self-published/Ellerströms text
Pub Year: 2022
Weight: 375 gr
ISBN 13: 9781912719204

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