Mamma Andersson: The Lost Paradise

By Mamma Andersson

This volume celebrates the Swedish artist Mamma Andersson's new body of work--melancholic, evocatively colored paintings that explore femininity, fantasy, and memory.

Andersson's works embody a new genre of landscape painting that recalls late nineteenth-century romanticism while also embracing a contemporary interest in layered, psychological compositions. Her panoramic scenes draw inspiration from a wide range of archival photographic source materials, filmic imagery, theater sets, and period interiors as well as the sparse topography of northern Sweden, where she grew up. The paintings utilize a selection of motifs from throughout her career: barren branches and thick-barked pine trees, domestic interiors, horses, and young women. Resembling still lifes, they further a tradition of quiet, dreamlike domestic scenes by Scandinavian artists such as Vilhelm Hammersh i (1864-1916) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Part of a self-conscious effort to capture an experience rather than a specific event, the compositions are freer and more abstract and mark a departure from her earlier work.

Splendid color reproductions bring the artist's textured brushstrokes, loose washes, and stark graphic lines to life on the page. The book also features a new essay by critically acclaimed author Karl Ove Knausgaard. The Lost Paradise is published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition presented at David Zwirner New York in 2020.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644230569
• ISBN13: 9781644230565
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: David Zwirner Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.4" x 12.0"