Anders Blomqvist
b. 1965 in Sandviken, Sweden.
Currently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
Artist Statement
Anders Blomqvist (°1965, Sandviken, Sweden) mainly works with photography. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetics, Blomqvist absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice.
His collected, altered and own photos are being confronted as aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and projection. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, he strive to create art of everyday life and everyday objects. Quite often, recognition plays an important role. By emphasising aesthetics, he seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
His works sometimes radiate a cold and latent disturbance. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. Anders Blomqvist currently lives and works in Stockholm.
Education
Autodidact
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Pinhole camera photo works, Galleri Sandelin, Sweden
2023 Toy camera photo works, Galleri Sandelin, Sweden
2023 Pavlovka Pinhole Fest, Kiev, Ukraine.
2023 Planket, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Planket 40 år, Stockholm, Sweden.
2022 Pavlovka Pinhole Fest, Kiev, Ukraine.
2009 Fotokompaniet Gothenburg, Sweden.
2007 F12 exhibition, Galleri Korn, Stockholm, Sweden.
2002 Toy Camera Exhibition, Tarzana, California, USA.
1994 Fotoplanket, Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden.
1994 Nyfiken, Uppsala bibliotek, Uppsala, Sweden.
1993 Kaffe, Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden.
1986 Fotoplanket, Uppsala, Sweden.
1984 Planket, Sandviken, Sweden.
Collections
Works held in private collections in Sweden, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy, Mexico, USA, Russia and Australia.
Editor
Creator and administrator
3D printing and analog photography
Texts
2009 Meeting Smoliansky [In Swedish][In English] – The F-blog
2008 On being a photographer (book review) – The F-blog
Lecture
Invited by Lars Westerman, Curator Sandvikens Konsthall, Hammargymnasiet 1996
Associations
Fotografimetropolen Sandviken, founder and member 1981-1984
Uppsala fotograficentrum, 1991-1994
Gruppo F - The F-blog, founder and editor since 2006
Recognitions
Instagram - selected photographer March 2014
Svenska Fotografers Förbund, sfoto Jan 2009
The Web
© All images and text appearing in this site, “Exposed Material”, are the exclusive property of Anders G. Blomqvist and are protected under International copyright laws.
The images may not be reproduced, copied, stored, transmitted or manipulated without the written permission of Anders G. Blomqvist. No images are within Public Domain.
Use of any image as the basis for another photographic concept or illustration (digital, artist rendering and the like) is a violation of International copyright laws.
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