A duo exhibition with the artists Andreas Korsár and Pia Mauno from Konstepidemin. Both have worked with the theme of flora. Andreas Korsár has been inspired by his partner’s thrifted vases and shows a series of paintings portraying these. Vases that in their simplicity adorn a table, without any flowers. Pia Mauno shows a series of paintings entitled Botanized memories. The motifs are inspired by the Botanical Garden and other gardens, with a certain distortion of time and space.

Andreas Korsár

Korsár has long thought that he wanted to paint still life of fruit, flowers, vases, jugs and pots. Look at something selected carefully, and for a long time. Maybe a few weeks, maybe months or years – let time pass. His partner often comes home with lots of things from flea markets and now it seems that she has started collecting things in glass, ceramics and porcelain. He has, after an initial feeling of annoyance, taken an interest in them. In February 2022, Andreas brought some items from her collection. A vase, a jug, a small silver candlestick and a blue cloth. That’s how his studies started. What he has mainly chosen to paint are vases, vases without flowers. He likes vases – in different shapes, materials, structures and colours. At Flora’s Rike he shows a series of these paintings.

Bio

Korsár was born in 1974 in Skellefteå and was educated at Valand Academy of Art 1995-2000 in Gothenburg. He works with painting, sculpture and graphics and has exhibited in Sweden and abroad at, among others, Galleri Index in Stockholm, Museo de la Ciudad in Querétaro Mexico, Galleri MUU in Helsinki Finland and at Galleri 1 in Gothenburg.

Pia Mauno

When Pia Mauno moved to Gothenburg in the early 1990s to study art at Houvedskou’s painting school, she spent a few days in the Botaniska trägården. It was an unexplored environment for her as she had previously mostly stayed in urban environments or in the more wild forest. She drew wooden churches and made a painting of the small sculpture Vårens Hulda. She was told that the painting captured the color of the Gothenburg rose-gray sky and felt satisfied that she had succeeded in conveying a place through the color.

Pia will show a series of paintings entitled Botanized Memories at Flora’s Rike. The motifs are inspired by the Botanical Garden in Gothenburg and other gardens, with a certain distortion of time and space. Color is still important, but perhaps more as a mood carrier.

Bio

Mauno was born in 1969 in Västerås and was educated at Valand Academy of Art 1996-2001. She mainly works with painting and collage. Her works have been shown at CF-Hill, Stockholm, the Swedish Institute Paris, HIT Gothenburg, Gothenburg Art Gallery and Västerås Art Museum. Upcoming group exhibition Ember and Star at Bohuslänsmuseum in January 2024.