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A detail from a painting by mamma andersson, titled holiday, dated 2020.

Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström

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Characterized by a unique combination of textured brushstrokes, loose washes, stark graphic lines, and evocative colors, Mamma Andersson’s works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions.

Her often-panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of archival photographic source materials, filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors, as well as the sparse topography of northern Sweden, where she grew up: mountainous backdrops, trees, snow, and wooden cabins are recurrent elements within her works. Yet, rather than conveying specific spatial or temporal reference points, they revolve around the expression of atmospheres and subjective moods, and frequently appear to merge the past, the present, and the future.

A detail from a painting by mamma andersson, titled the last waltz, dated 2020.

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Mamma Andersson: The Lost Paradise

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A detail from a painting by Noah Davis, titled 1975 (8), dated 2013.

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When we recorded this episode in New York earlier this month with the artists Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström, who have been together for more than three decades, the situation in this city was very different.


Since then, Andersson’s exhibition at our New York gallery, 

, was cut short due to the escalating spread of COVID-19, and our spaces have closed temporarily worldwide.

But the story they told then—of two young artists leaning on each other as their family grew; of uncertainty and insecurity, and figuring out how to be different but together; of the pleasure of getting completely lost in one’s work—resonates even more now.

A detail from a painting by Mamma Andersson, titled The Lost Paradise III, dated 2020.

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 at David Zwirner London explores the diverse visual and formal styles of Klee’s art from the early 1930s until his death, in 1940. The following video features selected works from the exhibition.

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A detail from a painting by Paul Klee, titled Blumen auf dem Balkon (Flowers on the balcony), dated 1935.

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Late Klee

“The equestrians riding into the angsty, orange sky in 

...by the Swedish painter Mamma Andersson, share the same DNA as Edvard Munch’s screamer and the Romantic loners of Caspar David Friedrich....Most of the fourteen poetic pictures in Andersson’s show 

....are landscapes, at once specifically Nordic and timelessly placeless. But they feel interior, too—the rewards of an artist battling uncertainty alone in her studio, inventing a world.’’

Poetic Pictures by Mamma Andersson

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