{"id":5374,"date":"2018-06-18T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T10:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royaldjurgarden.se\/liljevalchs-staller-ut-lars-lerin\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:00:39","slug":"liljevalchs-staller-ut-lars-lerin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royaldjurgarden.se\/en\/liljevalchs-staller-ut-lars-lerin\/","title":{"rendered":"Liljevalchs welcomes you to the world of Lars Lerin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to Lars Lerin\u2019s pictorial world, created from water and pigment. This summer of 2018, Liljevalchs will display hundreds of paintings from Lerin\u2019s 2002\u20132018 period. The rugged landscape of Lofoten or the ruins of Syria, a pillar-like birch forest or lines of files on archive shelves \u2013 Lerin reincarnates powerful visual impressions via his inimitable technique.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In recent years Lars Lerin has cemented his position as one of Sweden\u2019s most loved artists. People queue for hours to see his exhibitions and the television and radio programmes he participates in attract millions of viewers. We feel that we know him; his openness gives voice to our own shyness.<\/p>\n

Lerin, however, is not only a very popular and folksy guy from V\u00e4rmland, he is a passionate, obsessed and serious artist. Widely regarded as the premier watercolourist of the Nordic region, he also works with graphic art and photography as well as text.<\/p>\n

\u201cLars Lerin\u2019s watercolours and Liljevalchs\u2019 beautiful galleries are the perfect combination. The importance and greatness of his art will be supremely evident to all and sundry, were it not so already. It\u2019s as if Lerin has come home,\u201d an emotional M\u00e5rten Castenfors, Director of Liljevalchs, explains.<\/p>\n

Lars Lerin was born in 1954 in Munkfors, V\u00e4rmland where he grew up. He received his artistic training at Valand Academy in Gothenburg. Currently he lives in Hammar\u00f6, outside Karlstad. Karlstad is also the location of the museum Sandgrund Lars Lerin, inaugurated in 2012, which houses a permanent exhibition of his works.<\/p>\n

In addition to holding exhibitions at galleries and museums in Sweden, the Nordic countries, France, Germany and the United States, Lars Lerin has published some 30 books in which he speaks of meetings and environments from his many travels and of life at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cLars Lerin is a thematician. It is easy to follow his biographical journey through his motifs: V\u00e4rmland, Lofoten, Egypt and Syria,\u201d M\u00e5rten Castenfors writes in the extensive foreword to the exhibition catalogue.\u201cThe exhibition at Liljevalchs is an attempt to concentrate on that which testifies to his passion. What we have looked for is his obsessiveness, which, noticeably often, finds its form in mellow moods, which, however, should not be personified. Lerin may paint darkly but when he paints he is not sad, but rather happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The catalogue boasts reproductions of over 200 paintings and sketches, in addition to Mattias Lindb\u00e4ck\u2019s richly detailed photographic portraits from the artist\u2019s studio.<\/p>\n

Captivated by Lars Lerin\u2019s pictorial world, this year\u2019s Transtr\u00f6mer Prize winner, poet Eva Runefelt contributes 22 newly written poems to the exhibition catalogue, to be enjoyed independently or in dialogue with the paintings.<\/p>\n

\u201cEva Runefelt is a poet who embodies the written word, who is in language, or rather, who is language, in the same way Lerin is in his material. They are so different, but so alike in their obsession and responsive search for the exact formulation, in words or in images,\u201d M\u00e5rten Castenfors concludes.<\/p>\n

Opening hours during the exhibition period: Monday\u2013Thursday 10.00\u201318.00, Friday-Sunday 11.00\u201317.00. Entrance fee: SEK 80, free entry for under 18s. Free entry for all on Mondays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Photo: Mattias Lindb\u00e4ck<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Välkommen in i Lars Lerins bildvärld, en värld skapad av vatten och pigment. På Liljevalchs visas i sommar ett hundratal målningar från 2002–2018.<\/p>\n

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