Main Gallery
20.08. – 18.09.2005
The painter Carl Fredrik Hill went crazy in Paris 1878.
He was a respected artist with a great ambition to win the Grand Prix at the Paris Saloon. Having been dismissed four years in a row, the void between ambition and reality possibly triggered the development of a paranoid schizofrenic psycosis.
His last works, obscene in motif and painted entirely in prussian blue and cadmium yellow, were destroyed by his collegues in order to preserve his reputation as a respectable landscapepainter. According to himself, works like these had never been made before.
After a transfer to his parents home in Lund in southern Sweden he created an amazing ouvre of drawings on four sheets of paper that he was given every day.
He never painted again and never went far from home.
Hills and drawings is my tribute to Carl Fredrik Hill.
It contains paintings made in prussian blue and cadmium yellow alongside drawings of my everyday life.
CARL BOUTARD
EDUCATION:
2001-2004 Reykjavik Academy of the Arts, Bachelordegree in Visual arts
1996-2005 Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Bachelordegree in Architecture
1999-2001 Konstskolan Idun Lovén, sculpture dept.
WORKSHOPS:
2004 Wolfgang Müller – The Golden Cut
2004 Björn Roth- Seydisfjördur workshop
2004 Roni Horn – formulating a critical vocabulary
2003 Who´s the Storyteller? Royal collage of art, Stockholm
2001 Cultural Studies 3 Malmö Art Academy.
EXHIBITIONS:
2005 Hills and drawings, Skaftfell Menningarmidstöd, Seydisfjördur.
2004 Inner Station, KlinKogBank, Reykjavik.
The Pine Tree Workshop, Torstrasse 111, Berlin.
2002 Wasteland, Galleri Nema Hvad, Reykjavik.
Writing an Essay on surrealism while waiting for the snow. LHI, Reykjavik.
2001 Whiteboy, Galleri Scraatchi, Malmö Art Academy.
GROUPSHOWS
2005 Augnablik frá Reykjavik, Brick 5, Wien
Grasrótin, Living art museum, Reykjavik
Purgatory, Living art museum, Reykjavik
Signal in the heavens, Gallery Boreas, New York.
2004 Nordur og nidur, Nordens Hus, Reykjavik.
Dieter Roth Academy, Lübeck
Frumskog, KlinKogBank, Reykjavik.
Cuts from Reykjavik, Friseur Beige, Berlin.
LHI Examensutställning, Listasafn Reykjavikur.
Rjómskip, Skaftfell Kulturcenter, Seydisfjördur.
Signal in the heavens, Torstrasse 111, Berlin.
2003 UdK Rundgang, Berlin.
2002 Mengerzeile Haus Salon, Berlin.
2001 SIE på Laugarvegur, Reykjavik.
Galleri Kretsen, Södertälje.
SCHOLARSHIPS:
2005 Sleipnir travelgrant
2000 MEM´s scholarship for draughtsmen, Sveriges Arkitekter (SA)
