Mark Frygell Swedish, b. 1985

Biography
Mark Frygell

Mark Frygell (b.1985 in Umeå) is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm. He has studied at The Academy of Fine Art Umeå and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna, Austria.

 

In his works, Frygell explores his own relationship to figurative painting, the still-life and landscape painting as carriers of collective consciousness, moral symbols and identity. In line with these interests, Frygell's reuse of forms, colors, compositions, themes and expressions of a certain painterly language form an important part of his method.

 

"There is a play between surface and depth in Frygell’s works, which seem to insist on their status as physical objects: his paintings are three-dimensional in a literal sense. In much of Western art history, innovation has been driven by a wish to develop technologies for disguising the materiality of made objects – like a stucco façade conceals the joints between building blocks, which speak of how the building was constructed. In Frygell’s paintings, in contrast, the coats of paint are applied so generously that the surface of the painting becomes textured and three-dimensional, like carvings or friezes. It is possible to trace individual brush stroke and make out in what order layers have been added. The result is an object that reveals its own object-ness. Each painting is like an archaeological dig site in which layer after layer of history is revealed so that one can trace the process through which the painting was created."
- Nicklas Hållén, lecturer and researcher at Karlstad University

 

Frygell's recent exhibitions include “Bright Views From the Shade,” Golsa, Oslo (2023), "I händelse av Mark Frygell" at Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg (2023), "Iterative Fantasies" at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris (2022), "Monochromes and Sculptures" at MARKET with Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2021), “Floating Mythologies” at Västerbottens Museum, Umeå (2020), "Paradise Fermented" at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2019), “Model Top/Bottom Brawl” at Härnösands Konsthall, Härnösand (2019), and "Modernautställningen 2018" at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2018).

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