Pink Package - Yrjö Edelmann
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By Yrjö Edelmann
Size 70 x 60 cm
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70 x 60 cm
Published in 1991 for an exhibition at Galleri Åklundh in Lund.
Silkscreen technique, printed on high end thin paper.
Limited edition - Less than 20 ex available
Yrjö Edelmann
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Yrjö Edelmann (1941 - 2016).
Yrjö Edelmann was born in 1941 and moved from Helsinki in Finland to Sweden with his family ten years later. He started to draw at an early age, initially in comic strip magazines, and worked for many years as an illustrator with the publishers Åhlén & Åkerlund in Stockholm. While there he produced several book covers and other works in the magazine genre.
Towards the end of the 1950s he studied freehand drawing at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Influenced by French surrealism with its irrational, dreamlike motifs, he developed his own pictorial language and also experimented with hyperrealism before becoming increasingly engrossed in his packages, wrapping paper and pieces of string.
His paintings play with shape and shade, with proportions and the properties of colour. His creations challenge our senses, capturing the sensation of hovering between what truly exists and what is merely the shadow of a dream.
