Dr. Karl Stefan Theodor Andersson
9 December 2011 – 6 January 2012
Temporary Projects
22 Wilson Street (2nd Floor Sonic Unyon Building)
Hamilton, ON
Canada
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-
How is this possible? Come to Temporary Projects on December 9th 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…
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