Drink and presentation of the book and exhibition at 6 PM.
The release and exhibition are organised in connection with Gallery Weekend Stockholm.
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The mood in Tommy Hilding’s visual universe is enigmatic. Are these buildings inhabited or deserted? The windows show no signs of life, but they aren’t broken. Here and there a solitary light is on. We see parked cars, and the facades are free from graffiti. If these places have been emptied of life, it must have been sudden. I believe this characteristic vagueness reflects the eye of Tommy Hilding as an artist. Hilding moves through the world as an observer who, like the Romantics, gathers impressions from his surroundings and then combines them into something greater. Into visionary representations of the outer world based on the world within.
– From an essay by Carl-Johan Olsson
In his recent exhibitions, Tommy Hilding has worked with a large variety of expressions in his paintings. He explores several paths simultaneously, and sometimes combines them in one painting. At the core there is a documentary and realistic visual language in which Hilding carefully constructs images of urbanity or the surrounding nature. A more abstract and spontaneous way of painting eats its way into the imagery and exists both inside and outside the motif itself. In later years, Hilding has also tenderly integrated samples from art history into his paintings. These are usually motifs from 19th-century romantic painting which either blend seamlessly into the image or are put in contrast with the contemporary. Tommy Hilding’s paintings portray an ambivalence and rootlessness that exist in our time. He challenges chronology and reverses concepts with a language that is playful yet urgent.
Tommy Hilding (b.1954 in Skagersvik, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He has exhibited at galleries and institutions since the late 1980s. He is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Västerås Konstmuseum, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Stockholm City, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Kramfors, and The Public Art Agency Sweden. He is one of the contemporary artists in the exhibition The Romantic Eye at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Tommy Hilding (f.1954 i Skagersvik, Sverige) bor och arbetar i Stockholm, Sverige. Han har ställt ut på gallerier och institutioner sedan slutet av 1980-talet. Han finns representerad i samlingarna på bl.a. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Västerås Konstmuseum, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Stockholms Stad, Folke Bernadotteakademin, Kramfors och Statens Konstråd. Han är även aktuell i Nationalmuseums uppmärksammade utställning Romantiken – ett sätt att se.