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Reality or fantasy? Yrjö Edelmann’s pictures are frequently located in the territory between dream and experience.
For centuries artists have endeavoured to delude the eye of the observer by conjuring forth a trompe-l’oeil image. And so too does Edelmann, with his wrinkled wrapping paper.
Ever since he stepped onto the stage as a thirty-something artist, Yrjö Edelmann has devoted himself to oil painting and graphic art. More recently his works have caught the eye of both public and critics, not only at home in Sweden, but abroad as well, with exhibitions in New York, Tokyo and Paris. Since 1976 his works have been on display continuously in the USA.
Yrjö Edelmann was born in 1941 and moved from Helsinki in Finland to Sweden with his family ten years later. He started to draw at an early age, initially in comic strip magazines, and worked for many years as an illustrator.
Towards the end of the 1950s he studied freehand drawing at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Influenced by French surrealism with its irrational, dreamlike motifs, he developed his own pictorial language and also experimented with hyperrealism before becoming increasingly engrossed in his packages, wrapping paper and pieces of string.
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For centuries artists have endeavoured to delude the eye of the observer by conjuring forth a trompe-l’oeil image. And so too does Edelmann, with his wrinkled wrapping paper.
Ever since he stepped onto the stage as a thirty-something artist, Yrjö Edelmann has devoted himself to oil painting and graphic art. More recently his works have caught the eye of both public and critics, not only at home in Sweden, but abroad as well, with exhibitions in New York, Tokyo and Paris. Since 1976 his works have been on display continuously in the USA.
Yrjö Edelmann was born in 1941 and moved from Helsinki in Finland to Sweden with his family ten years later. He started to draw at an early age, initially in comic strip magazines, and worked for many years as an illustrator.
Towards the end of the 1950s he studied freehand drawing at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Influenced by French surrealism with its irrational, dreamlike motifs, he developed his own pictorial language and also experimented with hyperrealism before becoming increasingly engrossed in his packages, wrapping paper and pieces of string.
All artworks of Yrjö Edelmann
Both these expressions and especially the first are remarkable.
Yrjö Edelmann
Print - 38 x 30 cm Print - 15 x 11.8 inch
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Basic theories of perspective
Yrjö Edelmann
Painting - 70 x 53 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 20.9 x 1.6 inch
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Wrapped Moët & Chandon
Yrjö Edelmann
Sculpture - 39 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
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Packed Spring Landscape
Yrjö Edelmann
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
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Exhibitions dedicated to Yrjö Edelmann
Galleri GKM
Currently on view in Stockholm
From February 18, 2024 to March 18, 2024
Galleri GKM
PopUp Paris by Galleri GKM
From October 21, 2021 to October 30, 2021
Galleri GKM
PopUp Paris in a virtual version
From March 28, 2020 to May 30, 2020
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Hyperrealism
Textile artists
Young British Artists (YBAs)
Neo-Conceptualism
Sculptors
Painters
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Swedish artists
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What is Yrjö Edelmann’s artistic movement?
The artistic movements of the artists are: Hyperrealism, Textile artists, Young British Artists (YBAs), Neo-Conceptualism
When was Yrjö Edelmann born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1941