Hudiksvallsgatan 8, Stockholm
Open by appointment
info@antics.se

Riffs
Channa Bianca, Saskia Holmkvist, Nadia Maghder, Sam Pulitzer, Carla-Luisa Reuter
May 15 - June 15

Around 2013 I worked at a restaurant in Gothenburg and that summer we were swimming at Saltholmen and I burned myself on a jellyfish, that was when Channa Bianca came walking over the rocks, we had probably met before but I have a memory of her there and then, do not know if she was an artist then but I have followed her painting and drawing since then more or less. We showed Channa at the subway gallery Kl. 9 as well and I have one of her butt paintings on the bedroom wall that I bought from her in connection with that show. Channa and Katarina organize a study circle every other Tuesday at Hägerstensåsen’s medborgarhus called Conversation Piece which is sometimes misspelled by the community center staff to peace which is fun. She is probably from Stockholm and born in the early 1990s I think.

I met Saskia Holmkvist long before that at the preparatory art school I spent my first CSN money on, a strange place, it was just after I had done my military service and Saskia visited and showed her film Interview with Saskia Holmkvist and I was completely floored, partly because it was so good and partly because Saskia was so cool, I hadn’t thought that an artist could be like that, there was something about that attitude to art that appealed to me, the form followed the concept. We met a few years ago when I was working at a kindergarten, she’s probably also from Stockholm, born in the 70s definitely.

I met Sam Pulitzer at Rehnsgatan 3 where I helped Beata with the space she ran for a few years around 2015-16 and Sam had an exhibition there with a lot of hay and this and that, a couple of actors and Sam performed a kind of MUD, I don’t think we talked much but even before that I knew his girlfriend Marie (don’t know how, mutual friends maybe) and a while ago they moved to Stockholm and then Katarina and I were there for a brunch and ate a lot of Swiss cheese, then it was important that we did not check his latest art but we returned a few weeks later and had a real studio visit, or home visit - he drew in a room in the apartment and he showed us his questions, very smart to show questions as art and we talked about Conceptual art. It’s text and his own handwriting, we have very similar handwriting, a mix between regular text and cursive style, us who never really learned to write nicely, he was probably born in the mid-80s like me, maybe we are born in the same year. Maybe in the state of New York?

Katarina knows Carla-Luisa Reuter since her time in Berlin, I have never met Carla, only on video link or Google meets to be platform specific. That is to have met these days I guess, I was struck by her socialist realist painting, I thought of the futurists and runaway steam locomotives, but a girl in uniform who kind of pulls the locomotive behind her in an invisible chain I imagine. Carla-Luisa was probably born in the 1990s, I think maybe in the Berlin area.

Nadia Maghder came in on a whim as we thought she was missing from the show, she showed a Falu sausage taped to the wall once at AW and her pipas work and she was in our apartment exhibition at Alphas’. We had a meeting in her studio in Ingenting and just before we left she showed us her photo of a shopping cart she found at an ICA, it was a lonely old man’s groceries. The artworks she has done, there are not many I think, are all good; Falu sausage, shopping cart, sunflower seeds, door, mail. She has an attitude and integrity that I respect, she is probably the youngest of the bunch born in 1992 if I may guess.

Max Ronnersjö
Stockholm 2024

Antics at Market Art Fair

May 17 - May 19

Every art fair should have a section dedicated to art books. In line with Antics’ mission to supply Stockholm with what is does not yet know that it needs and to vitalise its art scene with conceptual approaches to exhibition making, Antics will take over the Spritmuseum shop and there house a selection of art books and artists’ books, activated by a programme of performances and readings.

Performance by Mai Edström
May 4, 6-8pm

Anders Edström
Paints 2
April 11 - May 11

There’s a small hill next to a golf course that allows for one to be undisturbed. The golfers don’t touch the equipment and the set-up can be left there for days. Edström awaits a day with the right light and weather conditions and gets to work. He sets up one or more tables, preferably close to the ground in order to take pictures from all angles, high and low. On each table he puts a white foam board. It must be perfectly levelled. The foam boards are marked with a date and a number. Edström photographs the foam board with the bucket of paint that is soon to be used on top of it. This connects place, date, paint and results in preparation for a future systematic selection process, as this is an accumulative endeavour. Edström pours paint onto the foam boards. The act demands both focus and a certain tolerance for gravity’s workings, the paint’s viscosity and especially wind-related accidents, though these can be circumvented by creating a windshield from a wooden plank. One pour per table is enough. The shapes become very similar. The shapes also become very different. Some pools are better than others. Desirable is a centred, neat circle with an approximate diameter of ten centimetres but no matter the outcome the pools must be photographed. Black oil-based lacquer has proven to give the most favourable results with properties similar to a mirror. Other colours, paints and lacquers can also give satisfying results. Everything is reflected in the pools. Clouds. Trees. Edström photographs the pools of paint with a Nikon FM3A. Sometimes the paint matures beautifully over three days or so upon which more photographs can be taken. Sometimes the rain has completely destroyed it.

Dan Graham
Sculpture and photo
Release for the zine Kärlet - Dan Graham edition
February 21 - March 7