Humlan Lange b. 1957
Overview
Our inability to achieve true knowledge of the external world through the senses is a recurring theme in the work of Humlan Lange. Her paintings depict human figures, mainly young girls, against abstract backgrounds. Looming over the girls is a feeling of alienation. They seem distant from each other and the mono-chrome spaces they inhabit. Devoid of anything but color, these spaces highlight the girl´s separation from each other by removing every natural reference. Without being able to determine the nature of an external object, what can a mind truly know about another, Lange seems to ask? It is easy to imagine how the girls depicted by the painter, may be going through different stages of acceptance of reality as such; that no immediate knowledge of the external is possible; that no direct inter-human exchanges will ever really take place. As a result, we can see how some girls bear a look of anger, others one of resignation. Others yet look as if they have perhaps found a kind of escape in completely abandoning external reality in favor of introspection. Perhaps within, is there the possibility for truth?
/ Erik Jönsson
Works
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Femlingar som funderar över att ha så många syskon, 2022
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Handen på hjärtat, 2022
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Väntan 2, 2022
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I skuggan jag står , 2021
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Naken i gräset, 2021
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Fast i ett rutnät, 2020
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In kommer en ängel, 2020
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Jag häller olja på min hand, 2020
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Kära vänner, 2020
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Kvinna med flaxande sjal, 2020
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Och ute skiner solen, 2020
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Vi som väntar, 2020
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Drapering, 2018
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Kärlekspar, 2018
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Kvinna funderar på saker, 2018
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Min mammas dotter, 2018
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Orange himmel, 2018
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Tillsammans i havet, 2018
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Händer med kedjor och spets, 2018
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Va händer 1, 2017
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Va händer 2, 2017
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Va händer 4, 2017
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Kimono, 2010
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På mina axlar
Exhibitions
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In Waiting
Humlan Lange 5 Mar - 2 Apr 2022When Humlan Lange went to the Royal Institute of Art in the eighties, painting was supposed to be fierce. Paitning little characters? I think not! It was supposed to be...Read more -
Generations
Eva Lange, Humlan Lange and Inez Jönsson 14 Mar - 30 Apr 2020(English below) Tre generationer konstnärer i en utställning. Eva Lange är mamma till Humlan Lange som är mamma till Inez Jönsson. De delar ateljé i Hagaparken och har tidigare ställt...Read more