In the Absence of Gravity

Peter Bonde and Oliver Sundqvist

Text by Sara Solfiti, Foto and Video credit: Alex Forge

11.12.24 - 01.03.25

This exhibition unfolds like a dialogue between two realms of abstraction, where materiality and gesture intersect to propose a playful reimagining of form and color. Peter Bonde and Oliver Sundqvist come together to explore the liminal space between the visceral and the ephemeral, between painting and sculpture, creating a visual language that speaks to movement, vulnerability, and humor.

Bonde’s canvases exude a raw immediacy. His sweeping, almost dripping gestures in shades of pink, ochre, and electric greens confront the viewer with their textured spontaneity. Each painting seems like an attempt to capture fleeting emotions, suspended in time yet on the verge of disintegration. His work suggests portals - fractured windows that invite us to peer into a world both familiar and strange.

In contrast, Sundqvist’s sculptural forms possess a tactile exuberance that celebrates the awkward and the absurd. These assemblages, with their vibrant use of color and playful manipulation of scale, speak to the physicality of creation. The materials—layered, stretched, and distorted—become vessels for humor and fragility, reminiscent of childlike play or forgotten relics from an alien civilization.

The dialogue between the works suggests a universe untethered by gravity. The vibrant greens and yellows of Sundqvist’s sculptures echo the organic, flowing lines of Bonde’s paintings, creating a rhythm that guides the viewer through the space. At times, the works seem to compete, their forms colliding and overlapping in a chaotic dance. At others, they harmonize, pulling the viewer into a meditative stillness.

This exhibition invites us to confront the tension between the serious and the playful, between the crafted and the accidental. It challenges our understanding of what it means to balance beauty and imperfection, giving us permission to revel in the joy of the unexpected.

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Just 30 minutes away from beautiful Palma
Estanyera 2, 07150 Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

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