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He is back with new paintings!
Antonio de Felipe is first on the hit lists with his remixed versions of “classical” LP album covers. We start with a preview of the exhibition on Thursday 24 November 17.00-21.00 when you are welcome to mingle with Antonio de Felipe and enjoy the paintings. We will have a DJ playing during the evening and of course something good to eat and drink.

“Traditional” opening on Saturday 26 November 12.00-17.00.
The exhibition is on until December 31, 2011.

Warmly welcome!
Thomas & Karl-Johan Bergström

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Opening on Saturday  26 March, 12 pm–5 pm 
in the presence of the artist.
The exhibition will run until 30 April 2011.

Welcome!
Thomas & Karl-Johan Bergström

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Welcome to GKM at Art Anglais
- the exclusive art fair in the heart of Stockholm.

Welcome to the opening
Thursday 17 February, 15.00–21.00
Friday 18 – Sunday 20 February, 11.00–18.00

Hotel Scandic Anglais.
Humlegårdsgatan 23. Stockholm.

See you there!
Thomas & Karl-Johan Bergström

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Welcome to the opening Saturday, 29th January, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
the artist will be present. The exhibition will run until 5th March, 2011

Thomas & Karl-Johan Bergström

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In Memory of Corneille 27/11 – 31/12 2010

Welcome to honour Corneille together with us.
With this last solo exhibition in the gallery we would like to thank the master of colours who knew how to celebrate womanhood,
joy and all that is beautiful in life.

Opening on Saturday 27 November 12.00 – 17.00

Enjoy!

Thomas & Karl-Johan Bergström

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10th of November - 11th of December 2010

Galerie municipale Julio Gonzalez
21, avenue Paul Doumer – 94110 – Arcueil - France
Tél : +33 1 46 15 09 75
Email : service-culturel@mairie-arcueil.fr

With the support of:
Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström
Galerie Municipale Julio Gonzalez
Mairie Arcueil

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Welcome to the opening Saturday
23rd of October, 12.00–17.00 when the artist will be present.
The exhibition is on until 20th of November 2010.

Welcome!
Thomas and Karl-Johan Bergström

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On October 7th the wonderful sculptures by William Sweetlove
will invade the excellent restaurant Pontus at Brunnsgatan 1 in Stockholm

Thomas and Karl-Johan Bergström welcome you to this exhibition
in collaboration with Pontus Frithiof.

Opening on Thursday 7th October 16.00 – 20.00 when the artist will be present.  The exhibition will be on until 21 October.

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Welcome to the opening Saturday 11th of Septemberl, 12–17 when
the artist will be present. The exhibition is on until 9th of October 2010.

Welcome!
Thomas and Karl-Johan Bergström

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Welcome to the opening Saturday 24th of April, 12–17
The artist will be present. The exhibition is on until 29th of May 2010.

Welcome!
Thomas and Karl-Johan Bergström

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WELCOME TO

HUMLEGÅRDSGATAN 23 STOCKHOLM
HOTELL SCANDIC ANGLAIS

VERNISSAGE THURSDAY 18TH OF FEBRUARY 2010
TIME: 16.00 – 21.00

OPEN: FRIDAY 19/2 – SUNDAY 21/2
TIME: 11.00 – 18.00

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Black and white
Yin and yang
Stylish and sophisticated
Elementary, elegant and effective
The contrasts of contrasts in perfect harmony at
Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström

Vernissage – Saturday, 30 January 12.00–17.00
The exhibition takes place from 30 January to 13 March 2010

Welcome!
Thomas & Karl-Johan Bergström

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Welcome to the vernissage on 14 November, 12.00 – 17.00,
when the artist himself will be present.

Now we are delighted to be able to host the POPSPORT exhibition here at Galleri GKM.

This series of works of art with its sporting motifs was created by Antonio de Felipe for an exhibition prior to Madrid's candidature to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

The exhibition at the CASA DE VACAS Cultural Centre in Madrid attracted a great deal of interest and attention from the Spanish media. The works themselves have been documented in a magnificent art book together with a large number of Antonio de Felipe's works from previous themes such as Vacas ("Cows"), Meninas (after Velazquez' "Maids of Honour"), Logotipos ("Logos"), Cinemaspop , etc. The book also contains an interesting, in-depth interview with the artist and the prefaces are written by the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and Juan Antonio Samaranch, Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee.

POPSPORT is the latest theme to be developed by Antonio de Felipe and, for us, it is a constant source of fascination to witness how the artist's ingenious world of ideas and his sense of humour are constantly evolving.

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Pavillons du Petit Palais at la Place de la Concorde.

From October 22 - 26, 2009
Every day from 11.00 to 20.30
Monday October 26 from 11.00 to 19.00

Artists exposed:
• Valerio Adami • Arman • P.Chappert-Gaujal
• James Coignard • Corneille • Cecilia Cubarle
• Jacques Doucet • Yrjö Edelmann • Erró
• Antonio de Felipe • Sam Francis • Philippe Huart
• Peter Klasen • Bengt Lindström • MariaManuela
• William Sweetlove • Vladimir Velickovic

Stand 154 and 155

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Welcome to the opening during the Gallery Night,
September 26th, 17.00–21.00.  The artist will be present.
The exhibition is on until 31st of October 2009.

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Vasa Konsthall in collaboration with
Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström

Welcome to the opening 5th of September 12–16
Preview 4th of September 18–21

The exhibition is on until 18th of October 2009

IN MEMORY OF JAMES COIGNARD
*15/9 1925 – † 7/3 2008

"With just a few strokes of his brush he conjures up an entire world. James Coignard extends the boundaries between concrete and abstract. He knows how to create chromatic melodies that shift in timbre from cobalt blue to blood red. His pictures are an artistic epicentre where lines, letters and numbers meld with vigorous swashes of colour." That is how the writer Johan Persson has described the artist's paintings.
With this exhibition we honour James Coignard, showing some of his carborundum engravings and originals, as well as presenting the book "L'oeuvre gravé de James Coignard" volume VI. This edition include all the engravings that James Coignard produced between June 2005 and his decease, on 7 March last year. Behind him he left many fond memories and a life's work as a great artist.
James Coignard's principal modes of expression were oil on canvas and paper as well as gravure au carborundum, but also in bronze and glass sculptures and in ceramics. His work has been shown on more than 400 exhibitions, primarily in Central Europe and Scandinavia, but also in Canada and the USA. His first Swedish exhibition was at Malmö Museum in 1956.
Works by James Coignard are shown at different museums around the world; Guggenheim Museum in New York, British Museum in London, South African National Gallery in Cape Town and Musée de Saint-Denis in Paris.
In order to ensure that the work by James Coignard lives on, the association Les Amis de James Coignard was founded by his children; Pascale, David, Emmanuelle and Simon, and his assistant and close friend, Fatima Ashad. The association continues to work with his artistic production and arranges exhibitions on museums and art centres around Europe.
James Coignard was an important artist, but also a warm and compassionate human being, a big-hearted man whose death has left a gaping hole. We are fortunate, at least, in having his art to remember him by.

Läraregatan 3, SE-411 33 Göteborg. Phone: +46 (0)31 160572
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday from 12.00-18.00,
Saturday – Sunday from 12.00-16.00

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Galleri Bergström in collaboration with
Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström

Welcome to the opening on Midsummer Day June 20th 13.00-16.00
The exhibition is on until July 9th, 2009.

Galleri Bergström. Köpmansgatan 61, Båstad
Tel: 0431-758 50. Cell phone: 0707-36 30 88
Opening hours: Mon 14-18. Tue-Fri 12-18. Sat 11-14. Sun 13-16

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1021 Designcenter in collaboration with
Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström Malmö

Antonio de Felipe & MariaManuela

Welcome to the opening on Saturday 18 th of July, 12.00-17.00.
The exhibition is on until August 16 th 2009.

Antonio de Felipe and MariaManuela are two artists in the new pop art generation. They are both from different European backgrounds and have had several joint exhibitions in Europe and in Asia. United by a brilliantly colourful pictorial language with ingredients that include humour, contrast and irony they capture everyday life at the same time as they question it.

Warmly welcome!
Johanna Lind Clausen and Djon Clausen

1021 Designcenter, Österlenvägen 1021. 276 45 Löderup.
Tel: 0411 – 52 43 28. www.1021designcenter.com
Opening hours Mon-Sun 11-17 during June, July and August

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Galleri Bergström in collaboration with
Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström

Antonio de Felipe & Philippe Huart

Welcome to the opening on Saturday July 11th 13.00-16.00
The exhibition is on until August 2nd, 2009.

Antonio de Felipe and Philippe Huart are two artists in the new pop art generation. They are both from different European backgrounds and have had several joint exhibitions in Europe and in Asia. United by a brilliantly colourful pictorial language with ingredients that include humour, contrast and irony they capture everyday life at the same time as they question it.

Galleri Bergström. Köpmansgatan 61, Båstad
Tel: 0431-758 50. Cell phone: 0707-36 30 88
Opening hours: Mon 14-18. Tue-Fri 12-18. Sat 11-14. Sun 13-16

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Galleri Bergström in collaboration with
Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström

Welcome to the opening on August 5th 13.00-16.00
The exhibition is on until August 23rd, 2009

We show a selection of the graphics that Galleri GKM
has edited during 30 years of collaboration with Corneille.

Galleri Bergström. Köpmansgatan 61, Båstad
Tel: 0431-758 50. Cell phone: 0707-36 30 88
Opening hours: Mon 14-18. Tue-Fri 12-18. Sat 11-14. Sun 13-16

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Welcome to the opening 25th of April 12–17
The artist will be present.
The exhibition is on until 6th of June 2009

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Welcome to the opening 31st of January 12–17
The artist will be present.
The exhibition is on until 14th of March 2009

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st-art
Parc des expositions du Wacken – hall 20
7 place du Wacken
67000 Strasbourg

Stand C15

Artist exposed:
Patrick Chappert-Gaujal • Cecilia Cubarle
• Erró  • Antonio de Felipe • Phillippe Huart
• MariaManuela • William Sweetlove

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Welcome to the opening 22th of November 12–17
The artist will be present.
The exhibition is on until 30th of December 2008

Reality or fantasy? What is the difference between fantasy and fact, between night and day, between torment and transports of delight? Yrjö Edelmann’s pictures are frequently located in the territory between dream and experience, in a vacuum where the eye wanders through a labyrinth of almost infinite proportions.
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.
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.
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.

Johan Persson

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Welcome to the opening 18th of October 12–17
The exhibition is on until 15th of November 2008

IN MEMORY OF JAMES COIGNARD
*15/9 1925 – † 7/3 2008

“With just a few strokes of his brush he conjures up an entire world. James Coignard extends the boundaries between concrete and abstract. He knows how to create chromatic melodies that shift in timbre from cobalt blue to blood red. His pictures are an artistic epicentre where lines, letters and numbers meld with vigorous swashes of colour.” That is how the writer Johan Persson has described the artist’s paintings.
With this exhibition we honour James Coignard, showing some of his last carborundum engravings and paintings as well as presenting the book “L’œuvre gravé de James Coignard” volume VI. In this edition, we have gathered together all the engravings that James Coignard produced between June 2005 and his decease, on 7 March this year. Behind him he left many fond memories and a life’s work as a great artist.
James Coignard’s principal modes of expression were oil on canvas and gravure au carborundum, but also in bronze and glass sculptures as well as in ceramics. His work has been shown on more than 400 exhibitions, primarily in Central Europe and Scandinavia, but also in Canada and the USA. His first Swedish exhibition was at Malmö Museum in 1956. The early 1970s saw the start of a long-term liaison with Galleri Östermalm in Stockholm, owned by Editions Sonet. They came to represent him in Scandinavia and edited several volumes of his graphic works. It was not until 2003 that we at Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström, took over the role of James Coignard’s representative. By then, however, we had already known one another for almost 20 years, and we have many treasured memories of our meetings.
We recall our visits to his various studios, on the rue Martel in Paris, in La Boissière-École and later in Antibes. It was always such fun to be there and experience the playful way in which he coaxed forth his works of art with paints and a variety of materials. More often than not he would present us with a personally dedicated drawing or engraving before we left. That was the kind of person James Coignard was: generous to a fault – a friendly, modest, self-effacing man who never had a bad word to say about anyone.
We are delighted that, in collaboration with James Coignard’s children; Pascale, David, Emmanuelle and Simon, and his assistant and close friend, Fatima Ashad, we are able to continue to work with his artistic production and to ensure that it lives on.
James Coignard was an important artist, but also a warm and compassionate human being, a big-hearted man whose death has left a gaping hole. We are fortunate, at least, in having his art to remember him by.

Thank you James.

Thomas & Karl-Johan Bergström

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Erró – Heartbreakers

Welcome to the opening on Saturday 13th of September, 12–17, 2008. The exhibition is on until 11th of October 2008.

“I paint because painting is a private Utopia,” Erró writes of his art.
The landscapes in Erró’s work are a constantly changing kaleidoscope of images, multivalent and mysterious, not infrequently controversial, bursting with life – and titillating, too! There is room in his pictures for both paradise and visions of fear.
Erró is the alias of Gudmundur Gudmundsson, born on 19 July 1932 in Olafsvik, in north-western Iceland. Since Gudmundur first became enthralled by pictures of works of art in a catalogue from the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the tender age of ten, painting has been his passion and his mission in life. He was accepted into art school in Reykjavik as a 19-year old, subsequently complementing what he had learned there with further studies in Oslo. Erró travelled extensively in Spain, Italy, France and Germany in the 1950s, studying at the Florence Academy of Art in 1954 and at the School of Byzantine Mosaic Art in Ravenna in 1955. It was around this time that he began to exhibit his works, first and foremost in Paris, where he chose to make his home in 1958.
During the 1960s he established contact with the Swedish museum director Pontus Hultén, who encouraged him and took him under his wing.
Over the years Erró has taken part in hundreds of exhibitions and today his works are on show in museums all over the world, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Erró’s pictorial world is peopled by comic-strip characters and autocratic despots alike. Donald Duck with his Daisy, Chip & Dale, and other Walt Disney creations are unselfconsciously juxtaposed with Greek gods and madonnas. Elsewhere the German dictator Adolf Hitler stands shoulder to shoulder with his Iraqi counterpart Saddam Hussein, while the Chinese leader Mao Zedong is portrayed in truly monumental proportions.
Erró adopts the same provocative spirit to expose leaders whose propaganda machines advocate dictatorship, conformity and uniformity as he does, in others of his series of pictures, to allow his veiled Oriental women to expose their own breasts. Weapons, violence and sexuality are mainstays among his motifs. Pastiches of Picasso, Léger, Disney and Dalí have also become something of a hallmark for Erró, as he deploys a potpourri of styles and pictorial languages with wilful abandon. Some of the works from his earlier years bear traces of Roberto Matta’s evocatively cosmic creatures, while others resemble the comic strip-inspired paintings and popular culture pastiches produced by his friend, Öyvind Fahlström. But Erró also shares a close kinship with artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist.
In the summer of 2001 a museum was inaugurated in Reykjavik dedicated to Erró. Here visitors can see the full breadth of the artist’s work, from his very earliest paintings to those of more recent years.
Observing his art is like fitting together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The images blend, fuse and coalesce. The visual synthesis they create personifies a lusty joie de vivre and a playful vitality that stand in stark contrast to the opposing brutality of dark destructiveness.

Johan Persson

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Summer Exhibition 2008

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Welcome to the opening on Saturday 26th of April, 12–17
The exhibition is on until the 31st of May 2008

We look forward to seeing you!

The lines between the beautiful and the absurd are effaced in the paintings of Antonio de Felipe. Anyone venturing to study his pictures must be prepared for the unexpected, for suddenly you may find Betty Boop dancing hand in hand with Snow White and Superman. Such are his subject worlds – a surprising genre blend, a linking of series characters, classical art, Gothic literature and commercialism side by side with contemporary icon worship.    
 Antonio de Felipe has painted portraits of brilliant actors whose icon status is secure. Two of them are Audrey Hepburn and Greta Garbo, seen against a wide range of backgrounds – Picasso’s brutal Guernica or space figures reminiscent of Miró, as a third, Marilyn Monroe, parts her ruby lips downstage.  
 These film star portraits are frequently stylised, though sensitive, created with a uniform colour scale that shifts between shades of yellow, red and blue.
 Antonio de Felipe was born in Valencia 1965 and attended the Bellas Artes de Valencia school of art. His home of many years is Madrid.
 Together with MariaManuela, Cecilia Cubarle, Philippe Huart and William Sweetlove among others, Antonio de Felipe is one of the members in the group Les nouveauX pop, which has had several exhibitions in Europe and Asia.
 Playing with the stereotypical language of the advertising world is the distinguishing characteristic of his work. One example of this can be seen in the paraphrase on Diego Velásquez famous Las Meninas, Spanish for ‘The Maids of Honour’, painted in 1656. Instead of the glass of cold, perfumed water in the original, he places a Fanta soft drink in the hand of the young Spanish princess Margarita.    
 The princess with the flounce dress. Gold brocade on her bodice. Oranges in her black hair. Always reaching for the ingenious detail. 

Johan Persson 8 January 2008

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Philippe Huart  – One man show

3>7 April 2008 – Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill 75008 Paris
www.artparis.fr

Opening hours: Daily from 11 am to 9 pm.
Monday, April 7 until 6 pm.

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Edsvik Konsthall i samarbete med
Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström Malmö

5 X POP
Cecilia Cubarle, Philippe Huart, Antonio de Felipe,
MariaManuela och William Sweetlove,
samtliga från olika europeiska kulturer,
har haft flera gemensamma utställningar
i Europa och i Asien.
Med ett färgstarkt bildspråk fyllt av humor,
ironi och kontraster skildrar och ifrågasätter
de vår tid på vår tids Pop Art manér.

Välkommen till vernissage
lördag den 8 mars kl 1100–1700
då konstnärerna närvarar
Även öppet söndag 9/3 kl 1100–1700
Utställningen pågår 8/3–6/4 2008

Edsvik Konsthall
Landsnoravägen 42, 192 51 Sollentuna
Tel: 08–92 05 00. info@edsvik.com
Öppet: tisdag–söndag 11–17
www.edsvik.com

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Welcome to the opening on Saturday 26th of January, 12–17
The exhibition is on until the 1th of March 2008

We look forward to seeing you!

Cecilia Cubarle’s art is like a series of dreams. Almost tangible, yet unreal nonetheless –and occasionally bordering on the surreal. The observer is sucked into landscapes, partially liberated from logic and permeated by beauty, that evoke the spirit of René Magritte.
 “My work is like a secret diary,” (Mi trabajo es como un diario íntimo) Cecilia Cubarle writes in a note that can be accorded the status of a manifesto for her work.
 In the text she underlines her endeavours to discern the relationships between art and the market, feminine and masculine, and to comprehend the constant reciprocity between the aesthetic and the grotesque: “Esthétique ou non-esthétique?” she asks herself in the manifesto.
 In her acrylic Métamorphose from 2004 Cecilia Cubarle gives form to all that is supple and gossamer light with a few diaphanous yet iridescent bookmark butterflies that stand in stark contrast to the leaden mechanical mass of an old sewing machine.
Similarly, in her painting Vice-Versa from 2005, she plays and ponders with the opposites of male-female, illustrated here by the flamboyance of veteran cars to which a floral motif forms an eloquent counterpoint.
 Cecilia Cubarle was born in 1975 in Córdoba, Argentina. Between 1994 and 2000 she studied at the School of Fine Arts at the university in her home town. Then, armed with a Masters degree, she moved to New York where she became active in the Arts Students League. Her education includes elements of both drawing and graphic art as well as painting. Today she lives and works in Paris.
 Cecilia Cubarle’s first solo exhibition was held in 2000 under the title Documentaciones falsas (“False documentation”). The same year she also participated in a joint exhibition in Quito, Ecuador, that attracted considerable attention.
 In 2006 Cecilia Cubarle joined Les nouveauX pop, a group of ten artists from the new pop art generation that includes names such as MariaManuela, Antonio de Felipe, Philippe Huart and William Sweetlove. Together they have staged several joint exhibitions in Europe and Asia.
 Totally unexpectedly, in almost Monty Pythonesque manner, a wedding cake appears in one of Cubarle’s works. The confection is crowned by a bride and groom, balanced on top of a London bus and – below that – layers of works by the Great Masters, including Duchamps’ world-famous pissoir and da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Humour is tempered with echoes from the history of art.

Johan Persson, december 2007

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Previous exhibitions and events

Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström
Stora Nygatan 30 SE-211 37 Malmö Sweden
Phone +46 (0)40 611 99 11 Fax +46 (0)40 611 85 45
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