HANS ANDERSSON
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HANS ANDERSSON
Hans Andersson’s work involves materials such as textile scraps, colored and dyed paper, sheets of painted paper and bits of labels and fragments torn out of magazines. Add shellac, coffee grounds, watercolor, and pencil, not to mention dusts and other surface dirt. This was initially a kind of attachment process. The surface texture of the works is accentuated by the many materials they are created with.
Hans Andersson’s process and work are undefined but characterized by discipline; periods of meditation and pondering alternate with indefinite and rigorous action; a balancing act between chance and necessity; between error and aesthetic considerations; long hours. A way of painting that can be viewed as a kind sibling of very dense improvisational music.
His works turn into a of distillation of what is experienced: snapshots of memories transcribed as shifts in color or texture. The passage of time is present, as well as fragrances, meditations over phemenology and garden paintings.