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Peter Blum Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Paul Fägerskiöld entitled, January 1, 2100. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. There will be an artist’s reception on Saturday, November 19, 2022, from 5 - 7pm. The exhibition runs through January 21, 2023.

For millennia, the night’s sky with its celestial phenomena has evoked notions of time, place, and being for those gazing up at the endless expanse. The stars as fixed points in the sky viewed from specific locations and days offer a point of departure for artist Paul Fägerskiöld in his series Starry Night. At first shadowy and enigmatic, the paintings upon closer viewing are comprised of numerous coats of thick oil paint creating subtly shimmering and textured monochromatic surfaces in a concave shape. Strewn across the heavily applied and wavy impasto are small, circular unpainted points that flicker the underlying brilliant layers of aquamarine, violet, or crimson.

These small points are stars as viewed 78 years in the future, or on January 1, 2100, and from specific geographical locations scattered across the United States and its territories of today, including New York, Galveston, or Mauna Kea in Hawaii. With the help of the astronomical calculations of a computer program entitled Starry Night, the artist invites viewers to immerse themselves in the picture planes depicting expansive skies and envision a future through a visual experience devoid of speculation. Using the year 2100, a future that is less abstract as only decades away, any of the possibilities of human impact on the planet would not be visible in Fägerskiöld’s viewpoint of the night skies. The changes would be imperceptible to the eye from this vantage point.

Through the building of these paintings with their exposed linen borders in concave shapes referencing the horizon, and pencil lines showing the artist’s hand and the very construction of the images, Fägerskiöld creates cerebral and sensorial works. They bridge the gap between a perspective of deep time with its exact scientific calculations and that of the grounded reality of painting and handmade objects. Dissolving any semblance of a relationship between foreground and background, the artist wrestles an endless image into a smaller, contained area of perception. With the materiality of their constructed surfaces reflecting delicate silhouettes of the viewers, the images reinforce our notions of time from a present viewpoint, and engage speculations of a near future through a physical experience.

Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, January 1, 2100, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022

Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, January 1, 2100, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022

Detail of Paul Fägerskiöld, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Detail of Paul Fägerskiöld, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Paul Fägerskiöld (b. 1982, Stockholm, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Solo museum exhibitions include: Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland, (2021); Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden (2019); Jönköping läns Museum, Jönköping, Sweden (2018); Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden (2013); and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2010) among others. He has been awarded the Åke Andrén Foundation's Scholarship (2018); the Fredrik Roos Art Grant (2013); and the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Award for Young Artists (2010) among others. Fägerskiöld’s work is in permanent collections including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; SEB Collection, Stockholm, Sweden; The Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany; Public Art Agency, Sweden; and Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden among others.

Paul Fägerskiöld
Garden City. Kansas. USA. View north. January 1 2100., 2022
Oil on linen
19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)
(PF22-14)

Paul Fägerskiöld
Garden City. Kansas. USA. View north. January 1 2100., 2022
Oil on linen
19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)
(PF22-14)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

Yosemite. California. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)

(PF22-18)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Yosemite. California. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)

(PF22-18)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

Chicago. Illinois. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)

(PF22-16)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Chicago. Illinois. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)

(PF22-16)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

Galveston. Texas. USA. View south. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)

(PF22-15)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Galveston. Texas. USA. View south. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)

(PF22-15)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld
Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, January 1, 2100, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022

Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, January 1, 2100, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022

“The core of my work is playing with how we construct meaning in the world. How, through different means, we understand and grasp subjects such as time, transformation, memory, language, space, scale, and dimensionality.”

— Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

New York. New York. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

78 3/4 x 133 7/8 inches (200 x 340 cm)

(PF22-04)

Paul Fägerskiöld

New York. New York. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

78 3/4 x 133 7/8 inches (200 x 340 cm)

(PF22-04)

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Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

Utquiagvik. Alaska. USA. View north. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

43 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches (110 x 200 cm)

(PF22-08)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Utquiagvik. Alaska. USA. View north. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

43 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches (110 x 200 cm)

(PF22-08)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

Key West. Florida. USA. View south. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

78 3/4 x 133 7/8 inches (200 x 340 cm)

(PF22-05)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Key West. Florida. USA. View south. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

78 3/4 x 133 7/8 inches (200 x 340 cm)

(PF22-05)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, January 1, 2100, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022

Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, January 1, 2100, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022

“What all his subjects have in common, and how they are linked, is that Paul is getting to the heart of the matter; he is concerned with facts or facts yet to be discovered, cultural curiosities, celestial bodies, and archeology. It’s funny, for an abstract painter to deal with only what we know for certain.”

— John Tremblay

Paul Fägerskiöld

Mauna Kea, Hawaii. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

43 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches (110 x 200 cm)

(PF22-10)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Mauna Kea, Hawaii. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

43 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches (110 x 200 cm)

(PF22-10)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

Los Angeles. California. USA. View west. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

78 3/4 x 133 7/8 inches (200 x 340 cm)

(PF22-06)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Los Angeles. California. USA. View west. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

78 3/4 x 133 7/8 inches (200 x 340 cm)

(PF22-06)

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Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

Las Vegas. Nevada. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

43 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches (110 x 200 cm)

(PF22-11)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Las Vegas. Nevada. USA. View east. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

43 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches (110 x 200 cm)

(PF22-11)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld
Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, January 1, 2100, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022

Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld, January 1, 2100, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, 2022

“Fägerskiöld invites us to interact with these works [Starry Night] and to explore them until it becomes possible, when standing directly in front of a picture, to envision the future as a physical experience.”

— Katrin Sperry

Paul Fägerskiöld

Niagara Falls. New York. USA. View south. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

43 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches (110 x 200 cm)

(PF22-13)

Paul Fägerskiöld

Niagara Falls. New York. USA. View south. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

43 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches (110 x 200 cm)

(PF22-13)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld

San Francisco. California. USA. View west. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)

(PF22-20)

Paul Fägerskiöld

San Francisco. California. USA. View west. January 1 2100., 2022

Oil on linen

19 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (50 x 80 cm)

(PF22-20)

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Paul Fägerskiöld
Paul Fägerskiöld
Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld: Blue Marble, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland, 2021

Installation view of Paul Fägerskiöld: Blue Marble, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland, 2021

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