The exhibition features images of objects and materials, painted not as traditional still lives but more like portraits. A damaged stone head floats in mid air, a pair of cut branches of a geranium in a glass of water stretches up to reach the light above, a small statue of a man seems to study a couple of elderly human hands. These are depictions of emotions, of human experience, mostly devoid of physical human presence.
In this exhibition Niklas is interested in using the objects we surround us with, some with historical significance and others more mundane, to say something about who we are as humans. They are mirrors in a way, inviting the viewer in to reflect on the situations and objects before them, and at the same time on their own way of thinking and seeing. The works are vessels; of energy transmitted between the artist and viewer, of human experience and of the possibility and freedom of personal interpretation.
Niklas Asker was born 1979 in Nordingrå, Sweden. He has studied art at Konstskolan Kuben and Örebro Konstskola in Örebro where he graduated in 2001. After that he studied at Malmö Comics Art School and worked in the international comics scene for 8 years. In that time his own graphic novel Second Thoughts has been published in 6 different languages and he has done work for a number of different publishers, including Random House Books in New York.
In 2009 he started painting again and after being accepted into the Liljevalchs Spring Salon in 2011 and 2012 he started exhibiting regularly in Sweden and Abroad.
