"Potential Energy in Perspective" 18" X 33" oil on canvas
"Grey Factors that Affect the Pulse II" 32" X 26" oil on canvas
"Packed Yellow Powder Fields" 23.75" X 27.5" oil on canvas
Artist's Statement
Yrjo Edelmann (born in 1941) is one of Sweden's best-known artists<
abroad. His breakthrough was in 1993 when he was the second
Swede ever, after the glass designer Bertil Vallien, to be one of the
artists in the famous Absolut Vodka advertising campaign. Edelmann
wrapped the vodka bottle in coloured silk paper and taped it with
masking tape. Then he painted the wrapped bottle. It was a success
and Yrjo Edelmann wound up in the company of world-famous artists
like Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Lately his "parcels" have developed
more and more complicated and ambiguous compositions of several
boxes wrapped in bright paper. Yrjo Edelmann has been called the
great illusionist in Swedish contemporary art. Few if any achieve his
technical dexterity. It makes him unique as an artist in that he combines
the classical tradition of the old masters with an enigmatic contemporary
image world.
