PARKLIFE
PETER MOHALL
LUCE GALLERY
Turin, from January 26 to March 2, 2023
Opening: Thursday, January 26, 6:30 pm. The artist will be present.
Online exhibition walkthrough video
Exhibition view, Parklife, Peter Mohall, 2023, Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
In Turin, Luce Gallery is pleased to present the solo show “Parklife” by Peter Mohall, from January 26 to March 2, 2023.
The exhibition brings together ten new works conceived by the Swedish-born and Norwegian-based painter - all with his signature cast brushstrokes highlighting the painting’s palette.
Mohall creates post-impressionistic style landscapes dotted with people enjoying moments of leisure and tranquility. Inspired by Swedish and Norwegian coastlines and countrysides, Mohall documents his observations while on holiday with friends and family. When translating these subjects into paintings, he embraces surfaces like jute which emphasizes texture, and rich palpable colors that simulate a luminosity from within. Uniquely, Mohall also invites the viewer into his artistic process by sharing each color from his palette painted on acrylic casts and neatly stacked or arranged in the composition. The artworks on view cleverly pair the beloved picturesque traditional landscape genre with a distillation of the painting to its most simplistic form, the colorful brushstroke. Here viewers are simultaneously encouraged to experience both the transportative nature of landscapes, and to contemplate the complexity of how each abstract element that composes the painting - the colors, lines, gestures, and forms - contribute to these emotional experiences.
The exhibition’s title, Parklife, is borrowed from the 1994 British rock band Blur’s title track song of the same name. Much like Mohall’s paintings, one of the songwriters explained his upbeat, spoken word song was “about the park class… having fun and doing exactly what you want to do.”
For this series, Mohall instills an en plein air feel to his paintings by referencing photos from past trips that he digitally collages. From there he later creates detailed-to-scale studies on paper of both the scene and a color index reference before beginning the final painting on jute or linen. Working with tempera grassa, the artist mixes pigment-rich paints that resemble saturated jewel tones. After a color is used in the composition, he then paints one of his cast brushstrokes the same color and affixes it to the painting’s surface. For Mohall, the replicated brushstroke investigates the importance and authenticity of the artist’s hand or recorded gesture in the painting - does repetition change the meaning? The strength of Mohall’s work is its grounding in abstraction; there is always an emphasis on color theory, form, texture, and spatial relationships, that enlivens his compositions.
In his large two-panel painting, I Nores Hage (2022), we are welcomed to a red cliffside home and surrounding property with sweeping vistas of the turquoise seaside below. Tall thin trees reach up toward the crystal blue sky filled with pale pink and lavender fluffy clouds. In between the trees five figures, perhaps family members, stand on the sun-kissed chartreuse and shady mossy lawn all gazing in different directions. Each seems to enjoyably take in another part of the epic view standing as upright, still, and almost meditative as the surrounding trees. On the left, the artist has stacked all fifty-three hues of the work, a reminder of their complexity and diversity. Yet it is ultimately up to the viewer to decide if they choose to dwell in the landscape or contemplate how it was created. “Confidence” is after all “a preference for the habitual voyeur.”
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist will be online at www.lucegallery.com/video.php.
Peter Mohall, Moa vid karpdammen, 2022, tempera grassa, charcoal, and acrylic composite on four jute canvases, each 200 x 140 cm (78.7 x 55.1 in), overall 200 x 560 cm (78.7 x 220.4 in), Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Peter Mohall (1979, Löddeköpinge, Sweden) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. His work is an exploration of the history and medium of painting as a subject. Mohall graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He has exhibited in numerous museums such as the Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon (2018, Videbæk), Bærum Kunsthall (2017, Fornebu), Huset for Kunst & Design (2017, Holstebro), Kunstnernes Hus (2013, Oslo), and Liljevalchs Konsthall (2010, Stockholm). Additionally, his work has been acquired by private and public collections.
Peter Mohall, I Nores Hage, 2022, tempera grassa, charcoal, and acrylic composite on two jute canvases, each 180 x 130 cm (70.8 x 51.1 in), overall 180 x 260 cm (70.8 x 102.3 in), Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Peter Mohall, Malens kurhotell, 2022, tempera grassa, charcoal, and acrylic composite on jute canvas, 200 x 180 cm (78.7 x 70.8 in), Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Parklife
Peter Mohall
Luce Gallery
Turin, from January 26 to March 2, 2023
Opening: Thursday, January 26, 6:30 pm. The artist will be present.
Largo Montebello 40, Italy
Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 3:30 - 7:30 pm
+39 011 18890206 / info@lucegallery.com
Instagram: lucegallery
Online videos featuring exhibition walkthroughs: www.lucegallery.com/video.php
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
PARKLIFE
PETER MOHALL
LUCE GALLERY
Turin, from January 26 to March 2, 2023
Opening: Thursday, January 26, 6:30 pm. The artist will be present.
Online exhibition walkthrough video
Exhibition view, Parklife, Peter Mohall, 2023, Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
In Turin, Luce Gallery is pleased to present the solo show “Parklife” by Peter Mohall, from January 26 to March 2, 2023.
The exhibition brings together ten new works conceived by the Swedish-born and Norwegian-based painter - all with his signature cast brushstrokes highlighting the painting’s palette.
Mohall creates post-impressionistic style landscapes dotted with people enjoying moments of leisure and tranquility. Inspired by Swedish and Norwegian coastlines and countrysides, Mohall documents his observations while on holiday with friends and family. When translating these subjects into paintings, he embraces surfaces like jute which emphasizes texture, and rich palpable colors that simulate a luminosity from within. Uniquely, Mohall also invites the viewer into his artistic process by sharing each color from his palette painted on acrylic casts and neatly stacked or arranged in the composition. The artworks on view cleverly pair the beloved picturesque traditional landscape genre with a distillation of the painting to its most simplistic form, the colorful brushstroke. Here viewers are simultaneously encouraged to experience both the transportative nature of landscapes, and to contemplate the complexity of how each abstract element that composes the painting - the colors, lines, gestures, and forms - contribute to these emotional experiences.
The exhibition’s title, Parklife, is borrowed from the 1994 British rock band Blur’s title track song of the same name. Much like Mohall’s paintings, one of the songwriters explained his upbeat, spoken word song was “about the park class… having fun and doing exactly what you want to do.”
For this series, Mohall instills an en plein air feel to his paintings by referencing photos from past trips that he digitally collages. From there he later creates detailed-to-scale studies on paper of both the scene and a color index reference before beginning the final painting on jute or linen. Working with tempera grassa, the artist mixes pigment-rich paints that resemble saturated jewel tones. After a color is used in the composition, he then paints one of his cast brushstrokes the same color and affixes it to the painting’s surface. For Mohall, the replicated brushstroke investigates the importance and authenticity of the artist’s hand or recorded gesture in the painting - does repetition change the meaning? The strength of Mohall’s work is its grounding in abstraction; there is always an emphasis on color theory, form, texture, and spatial relationships, that enlivens his compositions.
In his large two-panel painting, I Nores Hage (2022), we are welcomed to a red cliffside home and surrounding property with sweeping vistas of the turquoise seaside below. Tall thin trees reach up toward the crystal blue sky filled with pale pink and lavender fluffy clouds. In between the trees five figures, perhaps family members, stand on the sun-kissed chartreuse and shady mossy lawn all gazing in different directions. Each seems to enjoyably take in another part of the epic view standing as upright, still, and almost meditative as the surrounding trees. On the left, the artist has stacked all fifty-three hues of the work, a reminder of their complexity and diversity. Yet it is ultimately up to the viewer to decide if they choose to dwell in the landscape or contemplate how it was created. “Confidence” is after all “a preference for the habitual voyeur.”
Exhibition view, Parklife, Peter Mohall, 2023, Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist will be online at www.lucegallery.com/video.php.
Peter Mohall, Moa vid karpdammen, 2022, tempera grassa, charcoal, and acrylic composite on four jute canvases, each 200 x 140 cm (78.7 x 55.1 in), overall 200 x 560 cm (78.7 x 220.4 in), Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Peter Mohall (1979, Löddeköpinge, Sweden) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. His work is an exploration of the history and medium of painting as a subject. Mohall graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He has exhibited in numerous museums such as the Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon (2018, Videbæk), Bærum Kunsthall (2017, Fornebu), Huset for Kunst & Design (2017, Holstebro), Kunstnernes Hus (2013, Oslo), and Liljevalchs Konsthall (2010, Stockholm). Additionally, his work has been acquired by private and public collections.
Peter Mohall, I Nores Hage, 2022, tempera grassa, charcoal, and acrylic composite on two jute canvases, each 180 x 130 cm (70.8 x 51.1 in), overall 180 x 260 cm (70.8 x 102.3 in), Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Peter Mohall, Malens kurhotell, 2022, tempera grassa, charcoal, and acrylic composite on jute canvas, 200 x 180 cm (78.7 x 70.8 in), Photo PEPE fotografia, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Parklife
Peter Mohall
Luce Gallery
Turin, from January 26 to March 2, 2023
Opening: Thursday, January 26, 6:30 pm. The artist will be present.
Largo Montebello 40, Italy
Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 3:30 - 7:30 pm
+39 011 18890206 / info@lucegallery.com
Instagram: lucegallery
Online videos featuring exhibition walkthroughs: www.lucegallery.com/video.php
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
