Alex Colard

ABOUT the artist

We are excited to present Adam Ytterberg’s debut exhibition Torun & Farmor i Naturminne. Currently completing his MFA at Konstfack, he stands out as one of the most distinctive emerging painters in Sweden today.
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ABOUT the exhibition

We are excited to present Adam Ytterberg’s debut exhibition Torun & Farmor i Naturminne. Currently completing his MFA at Konstfack, he stands out as one of the most distinctive emerging painters in Sweden today.

This series of 10 paintings is the result of a long labour. Ytterberg truly is a slow painter, carefully paying attention to every last detail before deciding a work is finished. He has demonstrated a particular talent for his chosen medium of oil painting, depicting depth and light with a sensibility that parallels many of the great modern painters, including Anders Zorn and Jenny Nyström.

Looking at Ytterberg’s works, one is equally amazed by his extraordinary technical skill as his impressive narrative and world-building. Anthropomorphic creatures borrow elements from the cartoons that he read as a child and teenager. The characters are rendered in a naturalistic manner, mixing the vividness of Bruno Liljefors’s animal scenes with the whimsiness of Donald Duck. On the narrative side, one can draw a parallel to Tove Jansson’s use of the Moomin world to address and cope with the psychological effects of war, counterbalancing the sense of impending doom with a hopeful ending. Ytterberg’s motifs have a similar effect. In a context of Anthropocene mass extinction and extreme weather, he proposes a strong argument for re-enchantment of the world and tuning into the intelligence of nature.

— Introduction to Adam Ytterberg Torun & Farmor i Naturminne. January 13, 2023.

ABOUT the gallery

CFHILL is an international art space and art advisory in central Stockholm, situated in a 17th century palace. Since its inception in 2015, CFHILL has presented over fifty exhibitions across a vast range of artists including; Hilma af Klint, Sheila Hicks, Sonia Delaunay, Yayoi Kusama, Donna Huanca, Jean Dubuffet, Carsten Höller, Carl Larsson, Olafur Eliasson,Anders Zorn, Lucio Fontana, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Vilhelm Hammershöi, Andy Warhol, Aaron Garber Maikovska, Ryan McGinley, Annie Morris, Yayoi Kusama & Amoako Boafo.

CFHILL operates as an independent and open source in a global network of artists, curators, galleries and collectors, with the ambition to create a dialogue across generations of artists. Previous exhibitions that have been curated by CFHILL or in collaboration with; Melanie Lum (US/China), Francesca Gavin (UK), Sandra Weil (Tel Aviv), Rick Herron (US), Sophie Mörner (US), Javier Peres (Berlin), Destinee Ross-Sutton (New York) and revolved around themes such as gender, sexuality, politics and race.

CFHILL’s leading independent art advisory, is active across the entire spectrum of the global art market. Our Art Advisory team help guide our clients through the global art market by combining art-historical knowledge with market intelligence and commercial expertise. We have created numerous art collections for private collectors as well as for corporations and institutions. The SEB art collection is an example of this, which holds one of the most extensive corporate collections of Nordic art.

CFHILL’s private sales team provides personal and confidential advisory, executed with substantial market knowledge to Scandinavian and international clients. The private sales team has previously placed works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Ed Ruscha, Imi Knoebel, Richard Artschwager, Robert Mangold, Kenneth Noland, John Chamberlain, Konrad Klapheck, Sam Francis & Andy Warhol among others.

CFHILL’s flagship art space is located on Västra Trädgårdsgatan 9 in the heart of Stockholm, where the art is presented over two floors in five different galleries. During 2020 CFHILL had a pop-up art space on Malmskillnadsgatan 38B, where artists across generations were highlighted through innovative exhibition initiatives.

CFHILL was founded and led by Michael Storåkers, Executive Chairman and Head of Contemporary, Anna-Karin Pusic, CEO and Head of Specialists and Michael Elmenbeck Creative Director and Head of Exhibitions.

For any further information, please contact us at info@cfhill.com or through our personal details under Contact.https://www.cfhill.com/

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