South of Heaven
Andréhn-Schiptjenko Stockholm
21 August - 27 September 2014

Exhibitions

In this exhibition he presents the video work South of Heaven, whose starting point is the painting Monastery Graveyard in the Snow by the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The painting was destroyed in 1945 in the bombing of Berlin by the allies in the last stages of World War II. The only remaining evidence of the painting is a black and white photograph.

Tobias Bernstrup has recreated the landscape of the painting in the form of a three-dimensional landscape model, constituting the scene of the film. The film becomes a kind of memory from the fictive place that was once depicted in the painting, and a reminder that man’s dreams of ideal worlds time and time again end in death and destruction.

In addition to the video, the exhibition consists of a new series of sculptures and watercolour paintings.