Karin Broos

Karin Broos

Feb 19 - Mar 29, 2009

Her paintings deal with photorealistic depictions of female figures, often placed in relation to water as a metaphoric framework. Through repeating the motif in series, she examines the mechanisms of her own painting and emphasises the unique qualities that distinguishes painting from photography.

Karin Broos painting is formulated placid and with no excess. Rust red water, curls around, rests inaudibly reflective, pours slowly over a floating female body, inviting, releasing, unsafe. There is a psychological intesity in Broos paintings, a state that grips and never letting go.

Broos demonstrates how the body loses its awareness and physical relation to its environment, how the measureable parameters over time and space are distinguished, and how vague sensations capture the persons relation to its surroundings.

Her paintings holds the same photorealistic clarity as Gerhard Richter and Ola Billgren, but also reminds of a Scandinavian painting tradition with clear references to artists such as Willhelm Hammershöj, Anders Zorn and P.S. Kröyer.

Karin Broos, born 1950, is educated at the Royal Academy – Konstakademie St. Joost in S´Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

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CHRISTIAN LARSEN is a contemporary art gallery in Stockholm with an extensive international exhibition program. We represent established, mid-career and emerging Scandinavian and international artists. The gallery is committed to nourishing the careers of represented artists, while introducing to the general public other significant international artists who have rarely, if ever, exhibited in Sweden.