KG Nilson´s exhibition
at Västerås Museum of Art, 2002 «

K G Nilson exhibited at Vasteras Konstmuseum for the first time in 2002. He showed paintings, prints and a large board game placed on the floor. The game is in the shape of a map of the world and the markers take different positions. They symbolise labour, gold, primary produce and nuclear weapons. In an interview in DN in 1999 the artist says: "The board game is a caricature of the world, only not too different from reality."

 

K G Nilson and Cia Rimmö introducing the exhibition at Västerås Musuem of Art.
KG Nilson (the artist) and Cia Rimmö (the head of Västerås Museum of Art) are introducing the exhibition on the private viewing November 15, 2002. 		 

The theme of the exhibition is War and Peace, a subject that KG Nilson has been working with since the end of the 1960´s.One of his first "map-paintings"; Le Grand Voyage, 1968, depicts a seemingly neutral distance through Europe. However, the black and white dashed line on the map shows the train journey from Dijon to the concentration camp Buchenwald. Pontus Kyander writes in a catalogue text from 1999, about the map as a subject in KG Nilson´s art: "The map is not a true representation of the landscape; it is its signs and theory." Humans were absent from KG Nilson´s paintings already in the 1960s, and are also absent in his later work. But everything else from a human surrounding is there: houses, roads, signs, and chaotic traffic systems.

 

 
K G Nilson  

A minor catalogue including texts and a few dozen colour images has been produced for the exhibition. The Museum Shop also stocks other books on KG Nilson. All work in the exhibition was made during a five-year period of time, 1997-2002.

The text above is written by Eva Borgegård for the exhibition "War and Peace. The text is translated into English by Sarah Rimmö-Toure.

Please note that most of the paintings can be viewed in enlarged versions by clicking on the pictures.

In KG Nilson´s biography there is more to read about his artistic ability.
KG Nilson´s Biography

Room 1 - the exhibition´s largest room
Room 1. Click on the K G Nilson´s paintings for enlarged versions.
The main entrance to the exhibition. A large board game is placed in the middle of the room.		   Room 1. Click on the K G Nilson´s paintings for enlarged versions.
The paintings to the right when entering the exhibition. Click on the paintings for enlarged versions.


Room 1. Click on the K G Nilson´s paintings for enlarged versions. Room 1. Click on the K G Nilson´s paintings for enlarged versions. Room 1. Click on the K G Nilson´s paintings for enlarged versions.
View towards the main entrance. View towards room 2. Far left corner of room 1.

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