February 5 - June 6, 2010
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is proud to present Tom Friedman's first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. Over the past year the artist has been working on a new piece, "Up in the Air", for the exhibition at Magasin 3, an enormous installation that summarizes Friedman's work and his artistic perspective on contemporary reality. In this comprehensive exhibition they are also presenting key works from the breadth of his varied production up to the present day. Tom Friedman is an inquiring artist who follows his own precise logic and creates astonishing objects out of everyday materials. Like an alchemist he extracts the essentials of a thing and then proceeds to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary. Friedman encourages us to question how we see and what we consider to be real. An artistic sensibility that is at once serious, playful and profound.
Curator Richard Julin says:
"Friedman attempts to understand the world through his work, and every new artwork represents an act of discovery. He hopes to create a space for us viewers to slow down, room to explore thoughts that we have not had previously."
Tom Friedman - installation at Magasin 3 from Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall on Vimeo.
The exhibition "Up in the Air" by Tom Friedman at Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. Comments by the artist. Filmed during the installation of the exhibition. Made by the exhibitions' curator Richard Julin.
