The Structure And Spectrum Of Green - Yrjö Edelmann
Original premium poster
By Yrjö Edelmann
Size 42 x 30 cm
Recommended frame - 50 x 40 cm
Published in 1993. Print of the original painting "The Structure and Spectrum of Green"
Printed on high end matt paper.
Limited edition - Less than 20 ex available
Yrjö Edelmann
STAIN Collection
Yrjö Edelmann (1942 - 2016)
Reality or fantasy?
Yrjö Edelmann’s pictures are frequently located in the territory between dream and experience.
For centuries artists have endeavoured to delude the eye of the observer by conjuring forth a trompe-l’oeil image. And so too does Edelmann, with his wrinkled wrapping paper — storm-tossed seas that may just as readily be clouds sailing through a clear blue sky, or mysteriously undulating packages.
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. 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.
Ever since he stepped onto the stage as a thirty-something artist, Yrjö Edelmann has devoted himself to oil painting and graphic art. More recently his works have caught the eye of both public and critics, not only here at home in Sweden, but abroad as well, with exhibitions in New York, Tokyo and Paris. Since 1976 his works have been on display continuously in the USA.
