SVERRE WYLLER – WESTEND
2018-01-29Last year marked the start of a new extensive series of egg tempera paintings on linen, which later this year will be shown at the Westend Krankenhaus in Berlin. This is both a working hospital and an active exhibition space, and Wyller´s exhibition will be part of its «Grossaustellung» – program, where selected works are installed in corridors and other public areas throughout the buildings. The exhibitions remain on view for a year, are open to the public, and require a considerable effort for a single artist.
For Wyller, the starting point was to define the Westend series of paintings as a developing project in the sense that the concept and formal framework are allowed to develop as the work is being made. The paintings are executed considering the physical space of a lively hospital – which is far from the pristine white cube identity of a gallery – and the existential aspects of illness and health, life and death, are inseparable elements in this context.
Opposite – Westend #19, 2017
Exhibition runs through to February 24th, 2018
Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway
