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Double exhibition featuring new works by Martina Müntzing (painting) and Charlotte Gyllenhammar (sculpture)
CFHILL has chosen to highlight two well-established artists in this year’s edition of CHART. The artists in question are Charlotte Gyllenhammar (b. 1963), whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years, and whose sculptures can now be seen as important national memorials in her home country of Sweden, and Martina Müntzing (b. 1968), a contemporary heir to and re-inventor of Swedish national romanticism and a painterly visionary of great integrity, who has been commissioned to create several important works in recent years.
“CHART has continued to gain prominence among the arenas of contemporary art, and selecting mature, courageous artists like Charlotte Gyllenhammar and Martina Müntzing felt like a natural choice for us. The fact that they’ll be showing brand new, significant works is particularly satisfying to us, and we’re very excited to be presenting them to the fair’s visitors. I’ve been following both artists for a long time, and I’m very impressed by their latest work,” says Michael Storåkers, co-founder of CFHILL.
Charlotte Gyllenhammar, one of Sweden’s most respected sculptors, is showing three brand new bronze sculptures. All three of these works continue her exploration of the theme of the child as an explorer and “traveller” in a world in which they are the protagonist and have renounced their infantility and cuteness. Here, they emerge as ghostly astronauts instead, perhaps preparing to leave Earth for good. The presentation of works also includes works from a big retrospective at Swedish Waldemarsudde last year: the series Crosier/Korsa. Charlotte Gyllenhammar began exhibiting in the early 1990s and has had a number of significant exhibitions and major commissions since them. Notable among them are the monumental work Untold, four metres in height, which was inaugurated on Royal Djurgården by Crown Princess Victoria in 2023, and Dag, the memorial for Dag Hammarskjöld in Uppsala in 2021. Gyllenhammar, whose works appear in important Swedish collections, has also been exhibited at the Biwako Biennale, Hikone in Japan, Blickachsen Sculpture Biennale, Bad Homburg in Germany, and the Whitechapel Gallery, London UK.
Martina Müntzing has created three new paintings for CHART: first a family fable, Händelsehorizont (Event horizon) with reference to the symbolic idiom of Renaissance-era paintings of the Virgin Mary and the fairy tale The Town Musicians of Bremen, second a study of foxes with a nod to the Swedish master Bruno Liljefors, and third is Imago, a paraphrase of Botticelli’s Primavera, from the Uffizi collections in Florence. Müntzing’s painting can be described as a dynamic intersection between deep psychological studies of family relationships and the interaction between children and adults, with a playful approach to art history. Martina Müntzing began exhibiting in the mid-1990s, and has exhibited extensively since then, and now has a series of significant commissions to her name. Müntzing studied at the Royal Institute of Art and has exhibited at venues including the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Uppsala Art Museum, Liljevalchs, Moderna Museet, and Millesgården. She has executed several public commissions for the Swedish Parliament, Stockholm University, and Uppsala University Hospital. Müntzing’s work is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Public Art Agency Sweden, and municipal collections in Stockholm, Uppsala, and Skåne, and recently completed a family portrait of the Crown princess Victoria’s family, commissioned by them.
Both artists are making their debut at CHART.
Opening Hours CHART 2024
29 August 11.00–19.00 VIP Preview
30 August 11.00–19.00
31 August 11.00–18.00
01 September 11.00–17.00
Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, DK-1050 Copenhagen
