Free Loader of the Universe Exhibition Opening (December 9th 19:00)

Dr. Karl Stefan Theodor Andersson

9 December 2011 – 6 January 2012

www.stefankarlandersson.com

Temporary Projects

22 Wilson Street (2^nd Floor Sonic Unyon Building)

Hamilton, ON

Canada

http://temporaryprojects.blogspot.com/

A Free Loader of the Universe

Pictures and Notes from Kensington Market 1996-97

With a major solo exhibition of paintings and notes from Kensington Market in Toronto, Temporary Projects is pleased to present the work of Swedish artist, author and musician Dr. Karl Stefan Theodor Andersson.

The originals of this series of gouache paintings carried out while Andersson was living in Kensington Market from 1996-97, supported on a fat grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, will be exhibited publically for the first time at Temporary Projects. Andersson is an accomplished painter who uses bold colours to convey compositional arrangements that function in part as a documentation of a neighborhood in constant flux, explored through the artist’s own subjectivity as “an anti-authoritarian free spirited citizen of the universe.” The images consist of everyday genre scenes imbued with multifarious philosophical and theological subtexts, taken directly and informed by Andersson’s writing  on Bertrand Russell and his search for certainty in religion and mathematics. 

Born in Sweden, Andersson has since 1972 studied theology and philosophy at Lund University, Harvard Divinity School and did one year of graduate studies in philosophy at Berkeley California, under the guidance of Dadaist Paul Feyerabend and various other leftovers from the 60s. The result was that it took him 15 years as a graduate student commuting between the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University in Hamilton and Sweden, which resulted in a doctoral thesis in philosophy of religion, which was successfully defended at Lund in the spring of 1994. Since then Andersson has been a free loading, free thinking, free fucking citizen of the Universe surviving on the kindness of family, friends and strangers, without ever having had to rely on the dirty military-industrial-financial-academic-media complex.

How is this possible? Come to Temporary Projects on December 9^th at 19:00 and the Doc will tell you...

Also featuring special guests including chronic free loader Scott Horlacher and the Spirit of Bertrand Russell…

For more information please contact:

dorian.batycka@gmail.com

MIMCRY & CAMFLOUAGE BY THOMAS JESSOME

→Channeling the technique of Automatism throughout most of his work, Thomas Jessome can perhaps be best categorized as an Internet topographer. In the heyday of advance imaging and image manipulation, Thomas utilizes dated techniques -such as bitmapping- and images found on random Google searches to imbue the saturation of information available on the net with new meaning.

The process is precisely the key to understanding the work. Thomas assembles singular desensitized entities into challenging new pieces which suggest to the viewer new concepts of the information age. Thomas thus rethinks the planned obsolescence manifest in today's technology and its visual culture into a rhizome of expressive meaning. ←

For more works by Thomas Jessome visit his blog:
~ http://thedarkyouth.tumblr.com/ ~

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Temporary Projects is the name of an experiment in 21st century artistic and cultural production. Formally, it is a project space dedicated to facilitating a dialogue between artists and the ideas they present. More broadly, it symbolizes a line that is at once a point of connections and divergences. It is a door through which there are many departures and many arrivals.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 11th, 2011 19:00hrs

Temporary Projects
22 Wilson Street (2nd Floor Sonic Unyon Building)
Hamilton, ON
Canada

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