ISSUES

Impressionable Age Extender acts like a screen dump of Caspar Forsberg’s recent work with a particular yellow. He found it in the common Post-it® note and then extracted the colour using an NCS-scanner. The objects and materials painted in household paint merely act support for the yellow colour but also for texts, authored by a G-HOST whose intentions and qualifications shouldn’t be left unscrutinised.

A key to the recent work is a scene in the BBC documentary on the bower birds that shows an elderly bird with a great collection of colourful objects and a younger bird trying to copy the elderly bird’s bower. The title of the exhibition suggests that the period when one
has an open and perhaps naive outlook in life can be extended and wonders what this “impressionable age” does to one’s character and work if prolonged.

CASPAR FORSBERG

b. 1983 Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in Åkers Styckebruk, Sweden.

Caspar graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm 2009 and has exhibited in not only galleries and institutions but also in public spaces and off-site locations, meaning places that one would not consider appropriate or ideal for outdoor art. This could be behind a warehouse in an industrial park. Working mainly in sculpture and using the material, say PVC plastic or aluminium, as a starting point, Forsberg’s art explores the boundaries between different dimensions, physical or meta-physical. The acclaimed project Realruns.net, set up in 2015, distributes 3D-scanned sculpture and installation art into the digital realm. Caspar Forsberg was awarded the Maria Bonnier Dahlin award in 2015 and has exhibited at Bonnier Konsthall, Sven-Harrys konstmuseum and with Carl Kostyál in Stockholm and with Johan Berggren in Malmö. This is the first exhibition that Caspar does with Issues.

Issues has produced exhibitions since 2014 in specific places, places that perhaps exist more in the visitor’s mind and expectations than in real life. In 2015, Issues showed the American artist Ryan Trecartin’s video artwork CENTER JENNY on all 196 TV-screens at home electronics store Media Markt in Gallerian in Stockholm, during and after opening hours. Continuing to expand the contemporary art landscape in Stockholm, Issues works with artists tied to a local context, socially or geographically. Issues has previously showed the work of Anna Uddenberg, Marie Karlberg, Alfred Boman, Zoe Barcza, Jim Thorell, Olga Pedan, Thomas Hämén, Gina Beavers, Emanuel Röhss to name but a few.